In this interview, I talk to American HODL and Surfer Jim. We discuss bitcoin narratives & purity, shitcoins, NFTs, the bitcoin plebs and Surfer Jim's battle with Chamath Palihapitiya.

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1:00 Be Who You Are
2:38 Jim vs. Chamath
6:57 Shitcoiners on Parade
11:13 Bitcoin is the Innovation
16:54 People Love Shitcoins
23:05 Bitcoin Purity Test
27:04 Getting Rekt on Shitcoins
32:51 The Dollar is a Shitcoin
35:33 Fiat Creates Injustice
40:49 Bitclout BS
44:01 What's up w/ Chamath?
51:04 Smarter than Peter
53:29 When SurferJim Podcast?
59:56 Are we Just Cheerleaders?
1:05:00 How Jim Sees the Future
1:11:02 Peter's Master Plan
1:15:13 Peter's Vaccination
1:26:57 Power, Money, & Corruption

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“If we lived in a world where you could trust your money, you could then trust your ability to just go work hard like you already do…when the money is fixed, all this bullshit goes away.”
— SurferJim

Location: El Salvador
Date: Wednesday 5th May
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Bitcoin is an open and permissionless system that, by design, is available to anyone and everyone who wants to participate, without prejudice or bias. However, while the system is open to all, some of the participants in the system push strong narratives.

As a decentralised system with no single entity in control, these bitcoiners and their narratives have been fundamental in helping protect the network from bad actors and those looking to exploit it for personal gain.

Some of these narratives are clearly beneficial, such as running a full node to help decentralise the network or pushing self-sovereignty through things such as not your keys, not your coins. However, several other narratives have become things that some groups of bitcoiners identify with, such as following a carnivore diet, anarchism and scepticism regarding vaccines.

How important are these narratives to bitcoin? And what makes someone a 'real' bitcoiner?

In this interview, I talk to American HODL and Surfer Jim. We discuss bitcoin narratives & purity, shitcoins, NFTs, the bitcoin plebs and Surfer Jim's battle with Chamath Palihapitiya.