"Alex, welcome to the Network State podcast. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, man. Awesome. So, we've been friends for a while and it's good I think it's your first time out here in Singapo..."

"is I think uh you know, the the golden billion, >> Mhm. [clears throat] right? Have you heard that term? >> Mhm. Right? That's what I'm referring to yeah. >> Yeah, so the golden billion, Putin has als..."

">> [snorts] >> almost 15 years now that Bitcoin is wasteful and dangerous and useless is just a complete lie. It's It's the opposite. It's actually been dangerous to not use Bitcoin. Yeah, and I think..."

"like they're losing money every year. And the ones that have dominated the market are centralized and they they get frozen all the time. So, while stablecoins I would argue are a humanitarian technolo..."

"they're trying to do it Look, nothing By the way, I If Stripe people are watching this, I like them. They're good people, nice people. They're very competent in what they do, but um there's several re..."

"freedom. And you know, I that's what I'm here for. And you know, when I go to a country like Malawi, I went 2 years ago and 16 days after a overnight 44% currency devaluation. It was just so horrifyin..."

"Thailand accept Bitcoin. And then you can just sidestep that whole process. So, for me, Bitcoin's all about I I understand Bitcoin's a great savings thing. It's the best savings technology we've ever ..."

"country like Bangladesh has gone from in the 1970s an average uh foreign debt of something like 100 million to today 100 billion. That doesn't track with the population growth. It's become completely ..."

"in many cases it you know, 80% of the money would come right back to the to the to the lending nation um or more. So, this kind of thing was happening and that infrastructure wasn't helping the people..."

"business model of all time Yeah. because it can just from one standpoint you can hit a button and literally print a trillion dollars, which is like selling as I've said before like a thousand dollar i..."

"argue that these are outcomes of our way of life and our system as opposed to like evil conspiracy plans. I don't think a bunch of people got together and said, oh, let's create debt colonialism. No, ..."

"things. What am I doing personally and with the HRF on this? And and what does it mean for America? So just very briefly HRF's getting involved because you know, we help people under difficult politic..."

"things. Like dollar hegemony's obviously it's great to have one common language for the world of money. But it's got a lot of downsides and it's been very predatory. And I really think that a Bitcoin ..."

"but ultimately we need other systems to help Bitcoin achieve its its its goals. And and two I I I have two that I'll posit to you, maybe three. One is for sure Nostr, which I understand is like not ge..."

"Lightning service provider instantly and there's money to be made there. So, there's all this infrastructure being built and it's just cool that I can go around the world and I can spend fully fully p..."