Bram Kanstein: Bitcoin Is An Economic Psychedelic | EP274

About this episode

Bram Kanstein discusses the deeper implications of understanding Bitcoin and its connection to consciousness and modern life.

Bram Kanstein returns to The Bitcoin Matrix. He's spent over three thousand hours studying money. He hosts Bitcoin for Millennials — now expanding into Freedom for Millennials — and writes essays connecting fiat money to consciousness, attention, and the design of modern life. This conversation picks up where his first appearance left off. Once you've truly understood Bitcoin — what comes next? Bram's answer is that the orange pill is just the entry point. The real work is what happens after: noticing the bandwidth tax that costs you 13 IQ points before you've even started thinking, recognizing Bitcoin as "engineered truth" — the only economic anchor we can verify is the same in both our heads — and naming the spiritual crime of a money system designed to keep your attention off the things that actually matter. He's also organizing a Bitcoin-and-psychedelics gathering in Colorado, has just published Bitcoin for Millennials (his book, built from his first 100 episodes), and brings Michelangelo's Florence — 279 years under hard money — into the room as evidence for what humans build when the unit of account doesn't betray them. If you've ever wondered why everyone around you who…

People in this episode

Host: Cedric Youngelman

Guest: Bram Kanstein

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• economic theory
• consciousness
• attention
• money systems
• psychedelics

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• economic psychedelic
• bandwidth tax
• fiat money
• attention
• money system
• financial worry
• spiritual crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin for Millennials, Freedom for Millennials, Michelangelo's Florence

Books & works: Bitcoin for Millennials

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