The Bitcoin Infinity Show

Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf
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Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 52min

Troy Cross Talks Bitcoin Philosophy with Knut Svanholm

Troy Cross joins the Freedom Footprint Show and discusses Bitcoin Philosophy with Knut Svanholm. The conversation is wide-ranging, including comparing praxeology and decision theory, ethics, the natural state of money, the benefits of printing money (none), and much more. You can find Troy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetrocro 00:00:21 - Introduction and welcoming Troy to the show 00:01:53 - Being an "actual" philosopher means nothing 00:04:27 - Constructs and models of Bitcoin 00:06:50 - The validity of science - a priori vs a posteriori 00:16:00 - Austrian Economics book recommendations 00:18:51 - Descartes and the relationship between praxeology and mathematics 00:26:31 - The Ethics of Liberty 00:34:10 - Decision Theory vs Praxeology 00:40:31 - Praxeology Thought Experiments 00:46:47 - The Natural State of Money 00:53:34 - The Benefit of Printing Money 01:15:19 - The Natural Money Supply 01:20:40 - Bitcoin as a measuring stick 01:22:41 - Blockspace, Clockspace, Spacetime, and Timespace 01:33:48 - Quantum Attack on Bitcoin 01:38:41 - Conclusions and Summarizing The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more! The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Dec 6, 2022 • 1h 14min

Tomer Strolight on Bitcoin and the Nature of Truth

Tomer Strolight (possible Knut Svanholm clone) joins the Freedom Footprint Show to discuss interesting projects and the nature of Bitcoin and truth. You can find Tomer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomerStrolight Get Tomer's book Why Bitcoin for free: https://event.swanbitcoin.com/whybitcoin/ You can also buy his book at: https://www.blurb.com/user/TomerStrolig The Blocksize War article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/block-size-war-soldier-freedom 00:00:00 - Preview Clip 00:01:17 - Introduction 00:03:09 - Tomer Strolight joins the show and introduces himself 00:04:30 - Satoshi - the Cyber Opera 00:14:37 - Contributing to Bitcoin in different ways 00:16:10 - Conference Recaps (Pacific Bitcoin, Baltic Honey Badger, and others) 00:22:44 - Playing the cards you're dealt and the relation to praxeology 00:27:10 - The nature of Bitcoiners 00:32:32 - Bitcoin and Truth 00:41:33 - The Goal of the Pursuit of Truth 00:44:10 - The truth about Bitcoin ownership 00:47:29 - Bitcoin can only improve 00:52:29 - Bitcoin's strategic importance and surrounding ideas 00:58:44 - Sumarizing - what is the aim of learning about Bitcoin? 01:00:53 - The true value of NFTs (none) 01:06:57 - Where to find Tomer and his work The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more! The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Nov 29, 2022 • 2h 10min

Max Hillebrand on Praxeology, Austrian Economics, and Bitcoin

Max Hillebrand is a free software entrepreneur and sound money philosopher. Max joins the Freedom Footprint show to deep dive into praxeology, the theory of human action underpinning Austrian economics, and to explore the connection to Bitcoin. You can find Max on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax Max's website is https://towardsliberty.com/ And check out Wasabi Wallet at https://wasabiwallet.io/ 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:02 - Max Hillebrand joins the Freedom Footprint show 00:03:48 - Praxeology book recommendations 00:05:57 - Introduction to Praxeology 00:16:14 - The definition of property, and action as purposeful behavior 00:24:20 - What prices really are - ordinal values vs cardinal prices 00:28:49 - Scarcity, abundance, time, and technology 00:37:44 - The true scarcity of Bitcoin 00:43:29 - Privacy and protecting Bitcoin - the guy with the gun scenario 00:50:49 - What is time preference? 00:55:55 - Theory on Capitalism and Socialism in Austrian economics 01:03:08 - Gresham's law and Bitcoin 01:10:04 - Bitcoin optimism - how Bitcoin supports the goodness of humanity 01:15:23 - The problems of inflation and how Bitcoin fixes it 01:22:17 - Saving vs Hodling, and the cost of moving and storing Bitcoin 01:31:47 - Bitcoin and the concept of property 01:35:36 - Why praxeology is important and useful to know about 01:41:06 - The rules of praxeology and Knut's alternatives 01:45:27 - Political implications of praxeology 01:49:54 - Bitcoin and praxeology as universal ethics 01:54:32 - What Bitcoin does to Bitcoiners 02:01:23 - Wrapping up - where to find Max Referenced Books: The Ethics of Liberty - Murray Rothbard Economic Science and the Austrian Method - Hans-Hermann Hoppe The Last Knight of Liberalism - Ludwig Von Mises A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - Hans-Hermann Hoppe The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more! The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 5min

Annonymal the Bitcoin Metal Band

Annonymal is the first Bitcoin metal band, aiming to orange pill metalheads, and metal-pill bitcoiners at the same time! We discuss the philosophical connection between Bitcoin and metal, how metal music is resistance against stateism, and the influence of music on all our lives. You can find Annonymal on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Annonymal_btc To support Annonymal's album, check them out on Geyser.fund: https://geyser.fund/project/anonymal Annonymal is also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@annonymal 00:00:00 - Introduction, Fountain, and Konsensus 00:04:19 - Welcome and introduction to Annonymal 00:06:36 - Sepultura, Slayer, and the connection between metal music and Bitcoin 00:09:50 - The Annonymal concept, raging against stateism and promoting Bitcoin with metal 00:15:32 - The role of metal in Knut's life 00:22:40 - The philosophy of Bitcoin and metal - family, statism, satanism, freedom of speech, and property rights 00:34:04 - How to support the upcoming Annonymal album - https://geyser.fund/project/anonymal 00:38:30 - Annonymal's orange pill goals - orange pill tour, orange pill app, and more 00:43:30 - Appealing to Bitcoiner non-metalheads and metalhead non-Bitcoiners 00:53:25 - Spending sats to support something tangible, spend and replace 00:57:53 - Wrapping up, where to find Annonymal, how to support Annonymal and Freedom Footprint The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more! The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 9min

Jeff Booth on Finding Signal In A Noisy World

Jeff Booth joins the Freedom Footprint Show to discuss the latest European Bitcoin conferences, Bitcoin monetary properties, and more about the FREE Madeira project. You can find Jeff on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JeffBooth The Price of Tomorrow is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Price-Tomorrow-Deflation-Abundant-Future/dp/1999257405 Jeff's article Finding Signal In A Noisy World: https://medium.com/@JeffBooth/finding-signal-in-a-noisy-world-57497df06a35 Information about the FREE Maderia project can be found at their website: https://www.freemadeira.com/ The Based In Madeira Podcast can be found at their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaN2Zkvb4-rEYUcCdDTnbBQ 00:00 - Introduction to Jeff Booth, author of The Price of Tomorrow 02:04 - Conference recaps - Amsterdam, Bulgaria, and the borderlessness of Bitcoin 04:20 - The power of money and the connection to authoritarianism 13:15 - Finding the signal through the noise, and Bitcoin as a protocol (add article link) 24:39 - The bridge to the other side, and the power of network effects 35:36 - Humanity searching for energy, storage, and compute 40:14 - The FREE Maderia project and Jeff's involvement - shoutout @andreloja 51:35 - The distribution of Bitcoin in the future and under hyperbitcoinization 01:04:24 - Closing thoughts The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the 1st Bitcoin only publishing house. The show is based on the mind and works of Knut Svanholm and will feature guests from the deep end of bitcoin thinkers. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 2min

Knut Svanholm on the FREE Madeira Project

Knut discusses the FREE Madeira project in the middle of a busy month filled with conferences. No guest this time, but there's still plenty of musing and philosophizing. Information about the FREE Maderia project can be found at their website: https://www.freemadeira.com/ 00:00 - Intro 06:53 - Borderlessness in the Bitcoin age 09:01 - Element Zero video with Ioni Appelberg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12zBLvoVRFQ 16:36 - Evolution of Knut's ideas over time 22:02 - Metaphors for Bitcoin and Bitcoin as money 29:26 - Satoshi and Pythagorus 36:02 - The Hodlonaut trial and why Bitcoin can't lose it 42:21 - Why it doesn't matter who Satoshi is 50:12 - The FREE Madeira Project 59:34 - Closing thoughts - October conferences and more The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the 1st bitcoin only publishing house. The show is based on the mind and works of Knut Svanholm and will feature guests from the deep end of bitcoin thinkers. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 41min

Daniel Prince of the Once Bitten Podcast on Education and Bitcoin Projects

Daniel Prince of the Once Bitten Podcast joins the Freedom Footprint Show to discuss his perspective on education, as well as multiple ongoing Bitcoin projects including the Orange Pill App, Bitcoin Racing, and some to-be-announced news about Madeira. 00:00:00 - Introduction to Daniel with special guest Lauren 00:16:16 - Atoning for Fiat sins, and abolishing the state education system 00:22:22 - Danial pours a beer better than Stephan Livera 00:22:36 - Greedy capitalist villains will not exist under a hyperbitcoinized world 00:26:48 - Recap of Baltic Honey Badger conference in Riga and preview of upcoming conferences 00:52:56 - The ideal education system is no system 01:12:45 - Discussing Austrian Economics education books 01:16:27 - The Bitcoin blockchain height as proof of consciousness 01:21:01 - The nature of Bitcoin and reality 01:31:31 - Who would you orange pill and who would you brown pill? 01:37:33 - Conclusion - thanks to Daniel Prince! Connect with Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV Listen to the Once Bitten Podcast on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/2oJTnUm5VKs3xmSVdf5n Bitcoin Racing: https://bitcoinracing.co.uk/ Orange Pill App: https://mobile.twitter.com/orangepillapp The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the 1st bitcoin only publishing house. The show is based on the mind and works of Knut Svanholm and will feature guests from the deep end of bitcoin thinkers. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn https://twitter.com/KonsensusN Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 28min

Rob Brinded on the Decentralised Mind

Rob Brinded joins the Freedom Footprint show to discuss his upcoming book "Central to Decentralised Mind" Mentioned in the show: Gigi's talk at Baltic Honey Badger 2022: https://youtu.be/C7ynm0Zkwfk Luke's appearance on Bitcoin Rapid Fire Plebcast: https://youtu.be/HAsauvzyLFY Rob's Contact Information: https://www.robbrinded.com/ https://www.masterless.life/ https://twitter.com/RobBrinded Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/KonsensusN https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/OmniFinn https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 22min

Ioni Appelberg on Abundance Through Scarcity

Ioni Appelberg joins the Freedom Footprint show to discuss his upcoming book "Abundance Through Scarcity" Mentioned in the show: Information about the campaign defending Hodlonaut can be found at https://www.defendingbtc.com/ Ioni's Contact Information: https://www.youtube.com/c/IoniAppelberg https://twitter.com/IoniAppelberg Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FootprintShow https://twitter.com/KonsensusN https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/OmniFinn https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/
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Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 50min

Bitcoin Infinity Day Launch Party

The Freedom Footprint show is launching live on Bitcoin Infinity Day! Join Knut Svanholm and Niko and Luke from Konsensus Network for this new Bitcoin philosophy show. In our first episode, our launch party on Bitcoin Infinity Day, we introduced the Freedom Footprint concept then discussed topics ranging from the purpose of HODLing to the potential for the coming sat squeeze. Mentioned in the show: Information about the campaign defending Hodlonaut can be found at https://www.defendingbtc.com/ and Knut's auction project will be on https://scarce.city/auctions/everything-divided-by-21-million-hodlonaut The new value 4 value ebook app by Konsensus using Mash is on display at https://21million.konsensus.network/ For more information about Mash, check out https://www.getmash.com/ and https://twitter.com/getmash Also mentioned are the videos by Ioni Appelberg, you can find them at https://www.youtube.com/c/IoniAppelberg and follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/IoniAppelberg Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KonsensusN https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/OmniFinn https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn Visit our websites for more info: https://konsensus.network/ https://bitcoinbook.shop/ https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

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