The Sovereign Individual Pt 1 - Bitcoin: The Ultimate Offshore Bank with Robert Breedlove

 
 
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“Bitcoin is fuck you money, it’s fuck you to every policy, every police state, and every politician in the world. That’s the power of it.”
— Robert Breedlove

SHOW DESCRIPTION

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.

TIMESTAMPS

00:06:10: Introductions
00:06:55: "Violence" as defined in The Sovereign Individual
00:10:31: Human logic changes with technological advances
00:14:18: The theory behind the book - is it an inevitability?
00:19:35: Bidirectional coercion
00:27:50: How the virtual community has changed the logic of violence
00:37:05: The ascending and descending world
00:49:31: Bitcoin: the ultimate offshore bank
00:51:58: The taxpayer and the ultra-rich
01:02:59: How the state will react to Bitcoin as an existential threat
01:14:00: The selective attention experiment
01:16:42: The concept of the fully anarchist nation
01:24:49: The Kardashev scale
01:25:35: The Brilliance of Satoshi
01:31:30: Final comments

 

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