About this episode

Brian De Mint discusses the importance of treating Bitcoin as money and building a real economy around it.

“The alpha is still in Bitcoin. But it’s just by treating Bitcoin as money.” Brian De Mint is the head of marketing for Club Orange, a real-world social network for Bitcoiners. In this episode, we discuss why Bitcoin’s next phase may not just be holding the asset, but building a real economy around it: Bitcoin meetups, IRL community, the case for spending sats, merchant adoption, Lightning payments, Bitcoin mining as a free-market energy solution, and why treating Bitcoin as money can create stronger economic relationships between Bitcoiners. We also get into food and health to medicine, nutrition and the incentives behind the institutions we’re told to trust. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ANCHORWATCH BLOCKWARE LEDN BITKEY SWAN CAPE FOLLOW: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Brian De Mint: https://x.com/BrianDeMint

People in this episode

Host: Danny Knowles

Guest: Brian De Mint

Topics covered

• Bitcoin economy
• merchant adoption
• Lightning payments
• Bitcoin mining
• community building
• health and nutrition

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• economy
• sats
• merchant adoption
• Lightning payments
• community
• nutrition
• health

Sponsors

ANCHORWATCH, BLOCKWARE, LEDN, BITKEY, SWAN, CAPE

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Club Orange

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