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Location: Washington D.C.
Date: Sunday 5th December
Project: Bitcoin Today Coalition
Role: Leadership & Advisory Board

Studies have shown that education improves decision-making ability, that’s not a great surprise. The real breakthrough in the latter part of the 20th century was the identification that educational efforts in adults are best directed at correcting for cognitive bias: our subconscious subjective version of reality that can lead us to making irrational decisions.

This issue is widely apparent in the modern world dominated by disruptive technology seeking to undo long established but ineffective human developed systems. That such systems are controlled by power structures dominated by an older generation makes this issue more acute.

This is perhaps the greatest risk for Bitcoin: blind or willful ignorance leads to irrational decision making at the level of the state. That is where organisations such as the ‘Bitcoin Today Coalition’ come in. It is an interest group representing Bitcoin holders and the wider Bitcoin industry. One of its core aims is to increase Bitcoin literacy within America’s legislative and regulatory bodies. 

In this interview, I talk to 2 leaders of the Bitcoin Today Coalition: CJ Wilson and Amanda Cavaleri. We discuss educating the political class on Bitcoin and how it can make a strong America through strengthening energy grids, revitalizing rural economies, and giving those on the bottom economic rung equal access to a financial system. 

00:03:29: Introductions
00:04:51: Writing the book
00:17:51: Bitcoin mining and energy usage
00:21:47: The whitepaper vs The Constitution
00:24:16: The power of memes
00:26:03: States' rights
00:40:03: Depoliticising Bitcoin
00:48:56: Bitcoin voters
00:50:54: America's monopoly on money
00:57:56: The Boulder firemen
00:59:03: Geopolitical issues
01:06:13: Going onto a Bitcoin standard
01:11:26: The target audience for the book
01:13:17: Final comments

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Connect with Bitcoin Today Coalition:

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Connect with Amanda Cavaleri:

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Mentioned in the interview:

• Jimmy Song

• Carnivore ice cream

• Pete Rizzo

• Matt Stoller

• Peter Van Valkenburgh

• Michael J. Casey

• 2021 Texas power crisis (ERCOT power grid)

• Using methane combustion from natural gas formations, bitcoin miners can make use of methane gas to generate electricity for mining efforts.

• Two of the biggest bitcoin mining companies in the world are battling it out in a Texas town of 5,600 people (Riot Blockchain)

• The Constitution of the United States

• Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A Moore

• “The coming ‘network states’ will organize by shared belief: geography is secondary, shifting as digitally connected citizens vote with their feet and are most likely distributed, with representatives in different polities.” Balaji Srinivasan

• States rights

• How Wyoming became the promised land for bitcoin investors

• San Francisco's Tech Workers Are Leaving the Bay Area

• The Sovereign Individual - Davidson and Rees-Mogg

• Tim Draper

• Distribution of State Expenditures 

• World Population Ageing

• NYC’s Exodus to Florida: Big businesses, residents fleeing at record levels

• Universal basic income - Wikipedia

• Parker Lewis on Twitter: “Liberals are going to love #bitcoin when they figure out what it will do for lower income families but democrats will hate it...”

• John Hickenlooper

• Ron Wyden

• Aleks Svetski

• Aarika Rhodes

• Countries That Use the U.S. Dollar

• Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization - Parker Lewis

• What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

• Senator Cynthia Lummis On Us Debt Limit Raise: "Thank God For Bitcoin"

• Pillars of Prosperity: Free Market, Honest Money, Private Property - Ron Paul 

• "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

• The Bitcoin Firemen 

• Nayib Bukele on Twitter: “Phone.”

• China’s Digital Currency Could Affect Alipay and Weixin Pay

• Why a $200bn stake in Tencent is a problem for South Africa's Naspers

• Watch China Overtake The US As The World’s Major Trading Partner

• China reportedly takes over Uganda’s airport on account of loan default

• Swan Bitcoin building your stack calculator

• Bitcoin Today Coalition on Twitter (@BTC_Coalition) 

• https://bitcointodaycoalition.org/

• Writing a Bitcoin Book for Policymakers | Kickstarter

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