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Seventeen years as a Royal Ballet performer!
$ BTC 80,922
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Today's guest on the show is Benjamin Ella, a former career ballet dancer at the London Royal Ballet.
Ben discusses his journey into Bitcoin and his efforts to promote its adoption within the arts.
Ben spent 17 years dancing professionally, retired recently but dedicated the last couple of years to advocating for the Royal Ballet to accept Bitcoin for ticket sales.
Key Topics:
- Bitcoin adoption in traditional institutions
- Challenges of orange-pilling in conservative environments
- The financial struggles and dwindling government funding in the arts
- Ben's journey into ballet and Bitcoin
- Bitcoin for the Arts initiative by Dion Wilson
- Decentralizing arts funding and cultural resurgence through Bitcoin
- Bitcoin as a tool for financial integrity and principled thinking
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