Episode notes
Bradley Rettler is Director of the Bitcoin Research Institute and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming. He is a co-author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin and a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
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› ‘Resistance Money” book: http://resistance.money
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction and Background
02:42 - The Philosophical Angle of Bitcoin
05:31 - Bitcoin as Resistance Money
09:37 - Comparing Bitcoin's Fixed Monetary Policy to Fiat Currencies
14:14 - The Importance of Privacy and Autonomy in Bitcoin
28:20 - Understanding the Volatility of Bitcoin
37:16 - Evaluating Bitcoin's Potential as a Global Monetary System
39:02 - The Uncertain Future of Bitcoin Adoption
44:41 - The Influence of Bitcoin's Immutable Ledger
48:07 - The Importance of Academic Research on Bitcoin
51:00 - Bitcoin: A Manifestation of Cooperative Activities and Democracy
