Upgrading Your Personal Values With Bitcoin
summary
Argues that a hard-money standard instills low time preference by making saved capital gain purchasing power, which enables longer projects, tolerated failure, and genuine building rather than consumption. Uses examples from Goldman Sachs boardrooms to a 1572 Belgian building to contrast fiat planned obsolescence with multigenerational construction. Claims cryptography (SHA‑256) dematerializes wealth, shrinking the ROI on violence and enforcing a Bitcoin hurdle rate that raises conscious capital allocation and intellectual humility.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction: Upgrading Values with Bitcoin
- 0:26Low Time Preference & Future Anxiety
- 1:17Hard Money vs. Fiat Consumerism
- 3:24Building, Risk-Taking & True Capitalism
- 4:46Authenticity, Humility & Bitcoin’s Challenge
- 7:07Bitcoin as a Cult? Think for Yourself
- 9:14Bitcoin Hurdle Rate & Conscious Consumption
- 9:57Dematerialized Wealth & Reducing Violence
- 13:11Wars, Resources & Financial Austerity
- 15:02Bitcoin as a Mirror of Personal Values
- 16:26Closing Thoughts
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