Brian De Mint joins me to discuss the impact of technology on society, the psychology of totalitarianism, the importance of self-responsibility, and the incentive structure of Bitcoin.

Brian is an entrepreneur with a decade of market strategy experience. He is the author of Bitcoin Evangelism and works as the head of Marketing at Orange Pill App.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianDeMint
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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:50 - Intro
00:02:24 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:10 - Introducing Brian De Mint
00:03:59 - Calling Out Robert for a Boxing Match
00:05:22 - Career Background and Getting into Bitcoin
00:07:32 - The Lure of Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
00:09:16 - Protestant Reformation of the Catholic Church
00:13:49 - How Technology Changes an Existing System
00:17:28 - Ideology Fuels Human Action
00:18:28 - Suppression Leads to Proliferation
00:21:54 - Adapting the Monopoly
00:25:23 - Putting the Pieces Together
00:27:31 - How Decentralized Underground Railroads Liberated the Slaves
00:31:33 - Bitcoin: An Idea Beyond Human Control
00:36:02 - The Delusions of Totalitarianism
00:39:31 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:40:28 - 1980s Artworks of Prodemocracy Movements
00:44:16 - The Minority Rule
00:47:22 - The Spartacus Effect
00:52:40 - Alignment of Selfishness and Selflessness
00:54:16 - The Psychology of Totalitarianism
00:56:15 - Four Steps of Mass Formation
00:59:56 - Why We Need Peer-to-Peer Interaction
01:03:07 - The Importance of Self-Responsibility
01:05:19 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:06:07 - Social Conformity Experiments
01:11:42 - How Incentives Influence General Patterns of Human Behaviour
01:16:03 - The Intersection of Bitcoin and the Social Change Movement
01:19:11 - Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
01:23:25 - Morality of Telling the Truth
01:26:15 - Where to Find Brian on the Internet

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