Bitcoin: The Hardest Money with Richard James

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“To really be in the right mindset, to be receptive to Bitcoin, you’ve got to realise that you’ve got a problem, you’ve got to realise that these people are stealing from you.”
— Richard James

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Location: Zoom
Date: Tuesday 21st July
Company: hardmoneyfilm.com
Role: Film Maker

Some of the earliest forms of money included seashells and glass beads before people discovered precious metals and began trading using silver and gold. Anything can be a medium of exchange, but the forms of money that have stood the test of time are scarce. 

We are now in the era of fiat money; government-controlled, paper money, with no intrinsic value or backing. Fiat money is easy to produce, and with that, there is a huge incentive for governments to keep printing more of it. They do this for several reasons from bailing out business to providing economic stimulus when their policies have failed.

Throughout history, gold has been the hardest form of money, until 2009, when Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin. With a fixed supply of 21 million and a controlled issuance, Bitcoin is the hardest money we have ever seen.

In this interview, I talk to Richard James, the creator of Hard Money, a film looking at how money has been corrupted and co-opted. We discuss Austrian economics, the similarities between gold and Bitcoin, Hard Money and modern art.

TIMESTAMPS

00:03:30: Introductions 
00:04:10: Background to Richard
00:06:37: Austrian economics
00:08:35: Peter Schiff
00:12:31: Parallels with gold
00:13:53: US dollars in demand
00:17:55: Discovering Bitcoin
00:23:10: Nation state adoption
00:27:30: Key management for nation states
00:28:51: Background to the film
00:32:31: Inflation
00:35:16: Appealing to the masses
00:38:56: Creation of Federal Reserve
00:41:47: Reception of the film
00:45:37: Saifedean Ammous and cultish views
00:49:29: Degenerative art and censorship
00:56:10: Subjectivity of art
01:01:04: Architecture
01:05:57: Adding a Bitcoin lens to topics
01:08:26: New projects
01:10:39: Final comments

 

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