Mar 23 2025 86 mins 11
Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Andrew Bailey–fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute– joins Gwart to discuss Bitcoin's role as resistance money, the philosophical implications of cryptocurrency, and why simplicity might trump utility in digital assets.
Follow our guest on Twitter: @resistancemoney
TOPICS
-Bitcoin as Resistance Money
-Philosophy in Cryptocurrency
-Stablecoins vs Bitcoin
-Ethical Money Creation
-Future of Financial Freedom
CHAPTERS
00:00 Start
01:07 Andrew bio
01:55 Why philosophy & Bitcoin?
04:26 Bitcoin background
06:31 What is resistance money?
07:14 Why is this book important?
10:24 Examples of BTC as resistance money
13:14 Tron is the People's Blockchain
18:12 ETH as alternative
20:48 Long EVM, Short ETH
32:40 What new-coiners care about
35:27 The philosophy of ETH
36:07 Vitalik's writing
41:50 Legitimate use cases
46:13 What is "utility"?
51:21 Lightning & MoE
54:16 What crypto tech should come to BTC?
1:03:05 Worldcoin
1:09:17 Effective altruism
1:14:16 Ends justify means?
1:17:28 When David Hoffman cries
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