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@ Jake Woodhouse
2025-03-10 02:41:05
"An article I wrote with Troy Cross, published a couple years ago called "Mine Your Values". The idea there—it’s kind of a pun—is that we have values, things we care about and wish to promote in the world.
Step one: mine them—find out what they are, dig a little bit, do some introspection, a little thinking, a little philosophy to figure out your values.
Step two: enact them in the world through your investments. Our hypothesis in that article was that Bitcoin mining is, in fact, one important way for Bitcoiners to enact their values in the world, especially those who care about a sustainable future, carbon neutrality, or reducing carbon emissions.
What we proposed is that Bitcoin is a way to promote a couple of different values—including those environmental ones but also cypherpunk values. If you care about a future where money is available to all, enabling escape from surveillance and control by both private and public authorities, you will want to promote that value somehow—concretely, not just in the ballot box, but with your investments as well. Bitcoin is the answer."
Andrew Bailey / Ep.20 / 32:07
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