Hey, folks, welcome to this episode of the Dark Horse Inside Rail. I have the distinct honor and

pleasure of sitting this morning with two friends. Aaron Day is a fellow fellow at the Brownstone

Institute. I am also a fellow at the Brownstone Institute. And he is what I would call a digital

revolutionary. He is, I would call a digital revolutionary.

He is, I will warn you, something of a black pill when it comes to understanding the hope and promise of cryptocurrency and what is happening to it in the present.

And Steve Patterson is an independent researcher. I will say he may push back on

the designation, but I will say he is also my favorite philosopher. He is, of course,

a previous guest on Dark Horse, and you should check out that episode. Steve has written two books

on at least cryptocurrency, if not Bitcoin.

The more famous of them, he co-authored with Roger Veer, the book,

Hijacking Bitcoin, which I highly recommend.

I've taken a ton of pushback for talking about what is in that book.

People swear the book is nonsense, but here's a pattern you should be aware of.

When people tell you that hijacking Bitcoin is nonsense and that there are other things you should know,

they never follow up with the things that make it clear that there's something wrong

with the story presented in hijacking Bitcoin.

That's conspicuous.

So without further ado, Aaron and Steve,

welcome to Dark Horse. Thanks. Great to be here.

All right. So we have our work cut out for us this morning because we have multiple layers

of a very difficult, at least highly complicated topic to discuss in order to get to the part that matters to people.

The question of are we going to remain free? What are the tools that allow us to remain free?

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