In this episode with founder and anthropologist Natalie Smolenski, powered by Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), we discuss:

- How to value Bitcoin
- The symptoms of broken money in society: corruption and grift
- Why is Bitcoin not the obvious answer?
- Bitcoin as 'Pristine Collateral'
- Will credit be as widely used on a Bitcoin Standard?
- Satoshi Papers

Natalie Smolenski is a startup and non-profit founder and economic anthropologist focusing on how people create value and govern themselves in bottom-up and top-down ways. Natalie founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, a public charity dedicated to original research and education about Bitcoin and political economy. https://www.txbitcoinfoundation.org/ She also writes about Bitcoin policy as a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Natalie did her undergrad at Brown University, earned a Master's Degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, and her PhD in Philosophy, Art and Critical Theory from The European Graduate School.

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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 What are The Satoshi Papers?
1:42 Bitcoin is an intervention to governance
4:03 Bitdeer Technologies Group promo
5:03 Bitcoin in presidential election
9:41 Separation of church and state
12:40 What is the value of Bitcoin?
16:05 How to use Bitcoin
19:46 What is credit?
22:15 Inflation doesn't work
26:10 Bitcoin 2024 promo
26:42 Coinkite Coldcard Wallet promo
27:02 The Bitcoin Way promo
27:36 Rebuilding hope
34:31 Bitcoin's institutional phase
36:23 Politics and prices
41:12 Will there be a recession?

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