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Piriya Sambandaraksa is the managing director of Chaloke.com (a trading and investment education company), producer of Bitcoin Talk, founder & CEO of Right Shift, founder & CEO of Bitcoin Legacy, organizer of the Thailand Bitcoin Conference, and translator of multiple Bitcoin books.We talk about translating The Fiat Standard and other books into Thai, why Bitcoin appeals to Thai people, the relative strength of the Thai bhat compared to the Japanese yen, the low level of trust in Thai government, Piriya's background as a trader and YouTube educator, the problem of bitcoiners only making content for other bitcoiners, strategy and tactics for reaching non-bitcoiners, the Thailand Bitcoin Conference, Piriya's experience with diet experimentation and incredibly positive results with low-carb and carnivore diets, the fallacy of the local circular economy, and the need for price to go up much further for us to get serious adoption and usage.Links:* Piriya’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/piriya* Piriya’s Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1prya33fnqerq0fljwjtp77ehtu7jlsjt5ydhwveuwmqdsdm6k8esk42xcv* Right Shift’s website: https://rightshift.to/* Thailand Bitcoin Conference: https://www.thailandbitcoinconference.com/Transcripts and more available at beyondtheprice.substack.com.If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Use discount code BEYOND20 for 20% off tickets to Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong this May 9-10.John Riggins is Head of Operations, Asia Pacific for BTC Media (Bitcoin Magazine). In this episode we talk about his Bitcoin in Asia podcast, which ran from 2019-2020, his experience with Bitcoin Magazine in China from 2016, especially with the mining boom and subsequent ban (and less-known backstory), the origins and editorial policy of Bitcoin Magazine, the upcoming Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong, whether bitcoin as a money vs. bitcoin as a platform is the next big debate in bitcoin, why he's optimistic about bitcoin regulation in China and especially in Hong Kong, other developments throughout Asia, and finally, whether Asia could see the next El Salvador. Links:* John Riggins’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DistRiggs* Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/* Bitcoin Asia conference: https://bitcoin2024.b.tc/asia* “A $200M Mining Heist and a Life Sentence”: https://blocksbridge.substack.com/p/mining-heist-life-sentence* South China Morning Post article: https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3232044/crypto-mining-chinese-official-given-life-prison-scheme-involving-bribes-and-support-cryptocurrencyTranscripts and more available at beyondtheprice.substack.com.If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Bitcoin Alive is on March 23 in Sydney! Use discount code BEYONDTHEPRICE for 10% off tickets.Chris Pavlesic is a co-organizer of Bitcoin Alive, founder of Coinstop, country manager for Bitrefill, and adviser at The Bitcoin Adviser. We talk about organizing Australia’s first Bitcoin-only conference, stories from last year, founding a Bitcoin company and doing things “the Bitcoin way”, self-custody cultures, regulatory environment, inheritance planning, and how Chris hasn’t checked the price of bitcoin in over 2 years!Links:* Chris Pavlesic’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lungdoge* Bitcoin Alive website: https://bitcoinalive.io/* Bitcoin Alive Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive* Bitcoin Bush Bash: https://bitcoinbushbash.info/* Bitcoin Sydney: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/bitcoin_sydney/* The Bitcoin Adviser: https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/* Coinstop: https://coinstop.io/* Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) is a bitcoin educational non-profit that started in El Salvador but is quickly spreading throughout the world with its open-source curriculum. Their growth in the El Salvador school system has been explosive and they offer a model that anyone in the world can replicate so I was really excited to talk with them, especially as you may remember Teruko a few weeks ago mentioned she's helping translate their curriculum into Japanese and will be launching a Japanese podcast based on it.My guests are John Dennehy, founder and executive director, and Adam Nili, COO. We talk about John's background as a journalist and protester, launching a bitcoin educational organization after El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender, how adoption in El Salvador is going and what lessons it offers other communities and countries, how My First Bitcoin has modeled their organization after bitcoin in the sense of having rules not rulers, so that anyone can join what they're doing, and much more. This conversation pumped me up so I hope it has the same effect on you.Links:* Mi Primer Bitcoin website: https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/my-first-bitcoin/* Mi Primer Bitcoin Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyfirstBitcoin_* Mi Primer Bitcoin Nostr: https://njump.me/npub17cyatz6z2dzcw6xehtcm9z45m76lde5smxdmyasvs00r4pqv863qrs4ml3* John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdennehy_writes* Adam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/adam_nili* John’s Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1gaxapm9t9damh6q2lpc04ptcyeh0ysfdfzzs997agu3ae80ftrns7t985lIf you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Listen on Fountain & earn bitcoin: https://fountain.fm/episode/YIfXmtlNMicyzTljW6K6Coinos is the easiest way I’ve seen for businesses to start accepting bitcoin as a payment method. The interface is super simple as they abstract away a lot of the complexity that merchants don’t want to deal with at the beginning. They even utilize Liquid in addition to Lightning.Naturally, we talk about the state of merchant adoption of Bitcoin but we also discuss Bitcoin scaling solutions like Lightning and Liquid and more philosophical questions like the tension between building totally self-sovereign Bitcoin tools that are true to the ethos but hard to use vs. building easy-to-use tools that make some compromises in terms of custody, as well as whether we want gradual change or overnight revolution, whether open source is a viable business model, and whether to stay anonymous as a Bitcoiner or not. Lots of food for thought!My Coinos page: https://coinos.io/beyondthepriceLinks* Coinos: https://coinos.io/* Adam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamsoltys* Cole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/coinoswallet* BTC Map: https://btcmap.org/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Dominik Weil is co-founder of BitcoinVN, a cryptocurrency exchange in Vietnam, and Albert Buu is founder & CEO of Neutronpay, a payment service that uses the Lightning Network to offer cheap, instant remittances and other types of payments. We talk about why they chose to work in Vietnam, what it means when people say that Vietnam has the highest rate of bitcoin adoption in the world, what the reality on the ground is there, and what Bitcoin can offer a country hard-hit by war throughout history. Links* Albert Buu’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/subnetmask* Dominik Weil’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DominikWeil* Neutronpay website: https://neutronpay.com/* BitcoinVN website: https://bitcoinvn.io/* Lightningcon/Beyond Lightning: https://twitter.com/LightningconVN* Bitcoin Beach Vietnam: https://twitter.com/BitcoinBeachVNIf you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Andy and Dash are the organizers of Tokyo Citadel, a Tokyo-based English-speaking meetup group (and podcast). I’ve enjoyed getting to know them through the events and Telegram group, and am excited to say I’ll also be joining their podcast once a month. In this episode, we talk about how they ended up in Japan for so long, how they got into Bitcoin and whether they would have had they not been in Japan, the reality of living and working in Japan vs the perception from overseas, how their various projects came about and what they hope to build in terms of a so-called Tokyo citadel, and the current state of Bitcoin adoption in Japan.If you’re in Tokyo, the next meetup is tomorrow. For more Bitcoin meetups and conferences in Asia, check out the calendar on my Substack.Links:* Tokyo Citadel’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoCitadel* Tokyo Citadel’s website: https://tokyocitadel.com/* Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyo-citadel-meetup-group/* Telegram: https://t.me/+PXysoJ18WGdmMThlIf you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Happy new year and welcome to an independent Beyond The Price! As I explain in the intro, I’ve left CoinPost but I’ll still be releasing podcast episodes weekly, now from Substack (along with written articles - frequency TBD).If you’re an early Substack subscriber and didn’t even know I was doing a podcast, I hope you like it. My focus is Bitcoin in Asia (adoption, not speculation) but the guests are all over the world. Some macroeconomics too. If you’re a podcast listener, I hope you like to read too. Check out my early explainers of Bitcoin and look forward to more free-form pieces expanding on podcast topics.My first guest of the year is a fitting one, the first Japanese Bitcoiner I was aware of, Teruko Neriki. She translated The Bitcoin Standard (a formative book for me) into Japanese and now works for Fulgur Ventures, a Bitcoin VC company. We talk about her Bitcoin story, translation work, and the Japan scene, as well as the educational projects she’s involved in and launching (linked below).Links:* Teruko’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerukoNeriki* Fulgure Ventures: https://fulgur.ventures/* The Bitcoin Standard: https://saifedean.com/tbs* Lost in Bitcoin: https://lostinbitcoin.jp/* My First Bitcoin: https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/my-first-bitcoin/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Email me at: beyondtheprice@substack.comFollow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6k Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Talking about Bitcoin startups this week, and the perverse incentives of token-based investing versus the traditional (token-less) VC model. We also get into the finer points of "accredited investor" requirements as well as what founders or potential founders should be thinking about.Let's build!Links: Mike's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeJarmuz Lightning Ventures website: https://ltng.ventures/ Fold: https://foldapp.com/ Slice: https://addslice.com/ Vida: https://vida.live/ Digital Markets: https://digtl.co/ Scarce.City: https://scarce.city/ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/ Cloaked Wireless: https://cloakedwireless.com/ Satsback: https://satsback.com/ Azteco: https://azte.co/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Super excited to bring you this one. Been trying to get Weston on for a while. Weston Nakamura covers Japan/Asia macro, BOJ, USD/JPY, and much more, so I asked him about the Bank of Japan's outsized role on the global stage, what's the deal with the Japanese yen, and how traditional investors see Bitcoin vs. how he sees it, as well as why everyone should pay at least some attention to markets and how it's not as intimidating as you might think.Let me know if you'd like to hear more about these topics and if you found this too technical, too basic, or just right. Links: Weston's website: https://acrossthespread.com/ Weston's Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrossthespread Weston's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuoCqm6hMixOPD2ZDdiBp2Q Weston's Substack: https://westonnakamura.substack.com/ Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/ "Wex Fridman": https://twitter.com/acrossthespread/status/1603244901525000192If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Ordinals took the Bitcoin ecosystem by storm this year. I talk with Jan Smejkal, CSO of Xverse, a leading Ordinals wallet, about what people are coming for, whether they're sticking around, and what the reinvigorated building on Bitcoin means for the protocol and culture. I also talk about what I see as the primary mission for Bitcoin: separating money and state, as well as how I initially got into Bitcoin.Originally recorded as a Twitter Space on May 25, 2023.Links: Jan Smejkal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonfungible_jan Xverse website: https://www.xverse.app/ Xverse on Meet The Drapers S6 (coming soon?): https://www.meetthedrapers.com/vote The Great Ordinal Debate at Bitcoin Miami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdYsQ2DWt5MIf you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Basically the title. Thanks for listening, here's to many more!Links: Daniel Batten's Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DSBatten⁠ Nico Lechuga's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nico_lechuga Koji Higashi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Coin_and_Peace Dea Rezkitha's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dearezkitha Louis Liu's Twitter: https://twitter.com/louishliu Graham Krizek's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkrizek Alex McShane’s Nostr: npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va Jason Maier's Nostr: npub1dc84762hpnp0y4jcvjcgwt8l7sepng93j3hg63hfm80ph6kt82eqktjwqd Nick Malster's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickmalster Nostrasia website: https://nostr.world/ Max Hillebrand's Twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax NVK's Nostr: npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 Nicolas Dorier's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolasdorier Daniel: https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Are you fed up with social media? Do you think the internet used to be amazing and now is not? Are you feeling massive FOMO that you missed Nostrasia?I attended the latest Nostr (un)conference in Shibuya, Tokyo, on November 1-3, so here's my best shot at explaining what Nostr is as well as my takeaways, interviews with participants, and clips from the centerpiece session.Links: Nostrasia website: https://nostr.world/ Nostr FAQ: https://nostr.com/ Marce: https://nostr.com/npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h Zap.stream: https://zap.stream/ Nostr Report: https://nostr.report/ Max DeMarco: https://nostr.com/npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz Social Media Is Broken, Can We Fix It?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE Greg Kidd: https://twitter.com/gregkidd Michelle Z: https://nostr.com/npub1jdyaqyngdj4tgmmtlm7j7npkr3fwzjcumcwdqf68dc9wd5lf39rqwlfwsu My Librarian: https://www.inthestacks.tv/ Daniel: https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/ NVK: https://nostr.com/npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Max Hillebrand: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax Highlighter: https://highlighter.com/ Shion: https://nostr.com/npub1pjd3a8l0wmygkclcvezacvamwamlqfv7cs0xwjmp7n7920mdkrsq9hpeqp Tsururun: https://nostr.com/npub147ccm75um0zkn0lr9fg9wrag2g6yxfw234fpmhdwuvaqjyegrhgs46t2td Damus: https://damus.io/ Amethyst: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitorpamplona.amethyst Primal: https://primal.net/home Habla.news: https://habla.news/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Do you listen to a lot of podcasts? Do you get paid to listen to podcasts? If you're listening on Fountain, then you do. This episode I’m joined by Nick Malster, CMO and co-founder of Fountain Podcasts, the app that pays you to listen. They've rolled out a number of exciting upgrades lately, with more on the way.We talk about how Fountain didn’t start as a Bitcoin app or even a podcast app, we talk about the concept of “value for value”, or rewarding creators in real-time for what they provide, even as the consumers themselves are being rewarded, we talk about Fountain’s clipping feature, another thing that sets it apart from other podcast apps, and much more.Download it from the App Store or Google Play, search 'Beyond The Price', and immediately start earning money as you listen to this episode!Originally recorded as a Twitter Space on April 25, 2023.Links: Nick Malster's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickmalster Fountain's website: https://fountain.fm/ Zebedee: https://zebedee.io/ Slice: https://addslice.com/ Wavlake: https://www.wavlake.com/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Much of the educational content about Bitcoin comes with a libertarian or right-wing lens, making it easy for progressives or left-leaning people to dismiss it. My guest Jason Maier addresses this head-on with his book, one of my favorite this year. We talk about how Bitcoin is simply a tool (a revolutionarily empowering one) and potentially something that can bring us together even as it brings down unfair power structures. Like his book, we touch on the environmental, social, and political potential of Bitcoin.Links: Jason Maier's Nostr: npub1dc84762hpnp0y4jcvjcgwt8l7sepng93j3hg63hfm80ph6kt82eqktjwqd Jason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cjasonmaier Jason's website: https://www.bitcoinprogressive.com/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

Our current internet is broken. We're addicted to social media platforms that divide rather than connect, outrage rather than educate, but we don't want to leave because all our friends are there. Nostr could change that. It's not a new app, it's an entirely new system on which new apps are being built.It's gaining steam, enough for a conference in Costa Rica last March and now the second one in Tokyo and Hong Kong. I speak with Alex McShane, one of the organizers, about what Nostr is, where he sees it going, and what holding a gathering in Asia means.Links: Alex McShane’s Nostr: npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va Alex’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcshane_writes Nostrasia site: https://nostr.world/ Bitcoin Conference site: https://b.tc/conference/ Lightning Ventures site: https://ltng.ventures/ The Bitcoin Standard: https://saifedean.com/tbsSome Nostr clients: For web browsers: https://primal.net/ For iOS: https://damus.io/ For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitorpamplona.amethyst Like Medium: https://habla.news/ Like Twitch: https://zap.stream/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

The past few years, there’s been an explosion of alternative cryptocurrencies to Bitcoin (altcoins) claiming to offer something that Bitcoin didn’t. But this year we’ve seen a flurry of activity, first and foremost with the Lightning Network. My guest Graham Krizek, Founder & CEO of Voltage, talks about some of the companies using Voltage to integrate Lightning into their business, as well as Nostr, a new protocol for uncensorable communication, and even more that’s happening in the Bitcoin space, like issuing other tokens or assets on the Bitcoin blockchain.Will everything of value in crypto or Web3 eventually end up on Bitcoin?Links: Graham Krizek's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkrizek Voltage's website: https://voltage.cloud/ THNDR: https://www.thndr.games/ Nostrasia Freedom Conference: https://nostr.world/ Synota: https://synota.io/ Indonesia Bitcoin Conference (enter 'BTP2023' at checkout for 10% off!): https://indonesiabitcoinconference.com/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

I spoke with Louis Liu, Founder and CEO of Mimesis Capital, a Taiwan-based family fund. Because Louis is an investment manager, this conversation mentions investing and prices more than other episodes, but I think the real value comes when he talks about what it means to invest with a Bitcoin mindset rather than a fiat mindset (fiat meaning dollars or other government currencies) or a Bitcoin mindset rather than a crypto mindset.Toward the end we unexpectedly get into Taiwanese geopolitics and what Bitcoin offers a population caught between two empires, the US and China, so definitely stick around for that.Links: Louis Liu's Twitter: https://twitter.com/louishliu Mimesis Capital website: https://www.mimesiscapital.com/ 'Bitcoin is Generational Wealth' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxG6AUx441M 'The Bitcoin Standard' book: https://saifedean.com/tbs Indonesia Bitcoin Conference (enter 'BTP2023' at checkout for 10% off!): https://indonesiabitcoinconference.com/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

I spoke with Dea Rezkitha, an Indonesian Bitcoiner who’s in charge of organizing the upcoming Indonesia Bitcoin Conference at the end of this month in Bali. We talk about her unique story of how she got into Bitcoin, the terrible inflation that Indonesia has suffered, how Dea educates Indonesians on what Bitcoin can offer them, and even how Bitcoin mining could unlock the country’s geothermal reserves.We then get into conference topics, side events like the Lightning Hackathon, and how they’re using Fedi not only as a Bitcoin microeconomy at the conference but also as the conference app itself for participants to connect with each other.If you'd like to attend, visit indonesiabitcoinconference.com and put in 'BTP2023' at checkout for 10% off!Links: Indonesia Bitcoin Conference: https://indonesiabitcoinconference.com/ Indonesia Bitcoin Conference's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinConf_ID Dea Rezkitha's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dearezkitha Kelas Bitcoin: https://kelasbitcoin.com/ Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe

I sat down in-person with Koji Higashi, one of the most active Japanese Bitcoiners, to talk about what’s holding Bitcoin back in Japan and how he’s building a community here. He founded Diamond Hands, Japan’s biggest Bitcoin and Lightning Network community, but he’s also been around for a long time so we get some nice perspective on Japan’s unique crypto history. We also hear how Koji thinks that Japanese are good savers but are saving in the wrong asset, and how Japan's recent inflation might drive Japanese to seek a more sound money; namely, Bitcoin.Links: Koji Higashi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Coin_and_Peace Diamond Hands' website: https://www.diamondhands.community/If you enjoyed what you heard, a rating or review really helps me out! Thank you!Follow me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1cndrh68pp75xz2znpzzarrj9tyqvenlnn4azf39x4sftq2z0v2esntxq6kFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradjpn--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondtheprice/message Get full access to Beyond The Price at beyondtheprice.substack.com/subscribe