Blue Collar Bitcoin BCB082_SAMSON MOW: Nation State Orange Pilling
Samson Mow, CEO of both Jan3 and Pixelmatic, joins Josh & Dan to discuss orange pilling nation states and the likelihood of hyperbitcoinization.
WE COVER:
- Nation State Adoption and Jan3
- Commodity Stablecoins
- The Route of Hyperbitcoinization
- CBDCs
- Samson’s Experience Living in China
- Current State of Volcano Bonds
- Liquid Network in Video Games (Infinite Fleet)
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ABOUT SAMSON MOW:
Samson has a TON going on. He was COO of BTC China, and was previously the CSO at Blocktream. He is currently the CEO of both Pixelmatic and Jan3. He was instrumental in the small block camp during the Blocksize Wars between 2015-2017. He also orchestrated the Volcano Bond idea in El Salvador. At Pixelmatic he is overseeing the game Infinite Fleet, which incorporates a Bitcoin Liquid Network token called INF. Jan3 has the goal of assisting with nation state adoption of Bitcoin. We honestly don’t know how he possibly has the time to do all of this!
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