Mark Goodwin and his team produce the quarterly print edition of Bitcoin Magazine.In this episode, we talk about bitcoin culture, differences in strategies of producing digital vs print content, "fiat-disease" and sobriety, reclaiming sovereignty, and more.____________________________________Support the Show____________________________________

0:00 Intro1:40 Learning about Bitcoin through the Silk Road5:06 Crypto lessons since 20176:58: Was the ETH merge successful?7:50 Are stablecoins still worth using?9:00 Interest rates - are they instruments of war?10:10 Exchange rates and inflation - Euro, Pound, Dollar13:08 Keeping conviction in bitcoin14:10 From slinging drinks to magazines22:58 Importance of trust in relationships26:20 What does bitcoin look like in the future?30:00 Why is the lightning network important?33:40 Creating a good UX for bitcoin wallets36:30 Bitcoin Magazine - Q3 ‘22 Orange Party Bitcoin Politics Issue55:20 Creating bitcoin content during a bear market58:20 Favorite bitcoin content creators1:04:30 Studying already successful content to improve quality1:06:20 Creating media that people revisit years later1:13:00 Appreciating the elegance of complex systems1:16:00 Bitcoin culture and humanity1:23:00 How high can the DXY go?1:26:44 Fiat culture and alcohol1:42:11 Rhetoric about money and economics1:44:05 Predicting the Bitcoin Renaissance1:45:09 AI Singularity - Ray Kurzweil on Lex Fridman1:49:08 Bitcoin Hard Forks1:49:34 Outro / Social Media Links