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Dave Bradley is the co-founder of Bull Bitcoin, a Canadian Bitcoin company. He also organizes the Bitcoin Rodeo, a Bitcoin-only conference. He mined his first Bitcoin in 2010 and in 2013 he opened his first Bitcoin business, a brick-and-mortar store called Bitcoin Brains.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction and Early Bitcoin Mining Experience
03:01 - Bitcoin as a Solution to Government Control
10:52 - The Spiritual Aspect of Money and the Need for Hope
18:05 - The Degradation of Money and its Impact on Individuals
27:31 - The Attack on Individualism and the Challenge to Blind Trust in Government
29:19 - The Power of Incentives
32:18 - The Challenge of Intellectual Discourse
35:07 - Bitcoin: A Tool for Change
39:27 - The Misalignment of Incentives
43:03 - Are We Still Early?
48:02 - Progress and Prosperity
57:12 - Collective Efforts and Misaligned Incentives
59:33 - The Issue of Tribal Thinking and Collectivism
01:06:39 - Bitcoin's Removal of Non-Direct Taxation
01:19:36 - Bitcoin as the Solution to a Dystopian Economic State
01:23:18 - Currency Wars and Bitcoin's Emergence
01:26:40 - The Future of Currency: Bitcoin vs. the US Dollar
