The Sovereign Individual Pt 1 - Bitcoin: The Ultimate Offshore Bank with Robert Breedlove - WBD320
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Location: Remotely Date: Sunday 7th March Company: Independent Role: Bitcoin Writer
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age is a prophetic book released in 1997 by William Rees Mogg and James Dale Davidson. The book was written before the widespread adoption of the internet, social media, and Bitcoin, yet predicted a future that is remarkably close to the one we live in today, opening with the quote, "The future is disorder."
In the book, Mogg and Davidson describe their vision of the future and how the rise of digital technology would make the world much more competitive, unequal and unstable. The pair also predicted a 'cyber money' that would empower the individual to splinter from the nation-state. "As cybercommerce begins, it will lead inevitably to cybermoney. This new form of money will reset the odds, reducing the capacity of the world's nation-states to determine who becomes a Sovereign Individual".
In this interview, I talk to Bitcoin writer Robert Breedlove. We discuss why The Sovereign Individual is such an essential book for Bitcoiners, violence in a libertarian world, why bitcoin is a threat to the state and the ascending and descending world.
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| 0:00.0 | Bitcoin is, is, fuck you money, right? It's fuck you, to every policy, every police state, and every politician in the world. |
| 0:12.0 | And it's like, that's the power of it. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello there from Bedford, how are you all? |
| 0:18.0 | It's pretty early on here in the morning. |
| 0:20.0 | I can literally hear on the birds, tweeting outside. Can you hear it |
| 0:24.4 | also, Bitcoin back on a rip nearly set another all-time height yesterday. What a wild year we are having. Hope you were all so good this up loving this. |
| 0:35.1 | Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, |
| 0:37.8 | which is brought to you by The Mighty Cracken, |
| 0:40.2 | the best place to buy, sell and trade Bitcoin. I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I've got the first part in Ward is definitely going to be an epic series. |
| 0:49.0 | I've got the man at the moment, Mr Robert Breedlove, |
| 0:52.1 | and we're doing part one of our mini series looking |
| 0:54.8 | at Bitcoin and the Sovereign Individual with the first part today considering |
| 0:59.7 | Bitcoin as the ultimate offshore bank but before that I do have a message from my show sponsors. |
| 1:05.8 | So firstly we're going to kick off today with my newest sponsor, which is Ledger. Now as I've told |
| 1:10.2 | you a few times now, Ledger was the first hardware wallet I ever used and I've used most of them now. |
| 1:16.0 | But four years ago, actually it was more than four years ago. |
| 1:19.0 | It was about four years and three months ago that I needed my first hardware wallet and I bought |
| 1:25.0 | myself a nanose and I'm still using that same device today it still works |
| 1:29.8 | perfectly now the other very cool thing about the Nanos is that if you have an Android phone, |
| 1:36.1 | you can connect it to your Nanos to safely manage your Bitcoin on the go. |
| 1:39.5 | Now I'm a big fan of the product, mostly, because of its ease of of use and not just the device being robust |
| 1:45.1 | but the Ledger live software which connects it to your device makes it really simple to |
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