Cape Breton Bitcoin Culture
with Steven Manley and Dominic Ratelle
Brad Mills invites fellow Cape Breton bitcoiners Steven Manley and Dominic onto the show to discuss early adoption of crypto and its relation to Cape Breton culture. Steven talks about his past involving early cryptography, Brad elaborates on the state and history of Cape Breton. Dominic talks about his history retiring from the military and retirement in Cape Breton. The group criticizes governments and their stances on Bitcoin and altcoins, as well as the problems facing not just Bitcoin, but the entire crypto space as regulators come to collect.
Time Stamps
00:00:18 - Introduction
00:02:10 - The Post-Trust World
00:08:25 - Show Start and Guest Intro
00:15:04 - Getting into Bitcoin Early
00:19:38 - The current state, Challenges facing Bitcoin
00:27:51 - What is money and the violation of social contracts
00:42:21 - Government relations with cryptocurrencies
00:46:07 - Cape Breton culture
00:52:06 - Bitcoin dominance, relation to altcoins and fiat
00:59:28 - Questioning what money is and government control
01:09:08 - Debt defaults and hyperinflation
01:19:27 - Institutions and speculation, money wrapped up in assets
01:26:01 - Factionalism in the cryptocurrency community
01:32:37 - Bitcoin “a threat to the US dollar”, regulation and institutions
01:42:30 - Trust and altcoin centralization, Bitcoin community vs Altcoin community
01:55:27 - Jack Dorsey, the Twitter API, and relation to Bitcoin
02:02:06 - Bitcoin not going away, life changes, institutional control of finance
02:10:00 - Bitcoin and energy consumption
02:15:40 - Updating away from equalization, Cape Breton modernizations
02:24:03 - Social media plugs and closing remarks
Links to Mentions in the Show
IMF Concerned about Cryptoization