Exploring Bitcoin Podcasts #8
There are way more great Bitcoin creators out there than I realized — found tons through Bitcoin Army, Fountain, and Nostr.
For the next 40 days, I’m listening to a new Bitcoin podcast every day.
Send me your hidden gems, niche corners, and underrated voices. #40hpw (Been on a roadtrip so I've got to catch up on these blog posts)
Today I listened to The Bitcoin Matrix show with @npub159xc...g2g6 and Tom Luongo (Gold Goats 'n Guns Podcast).
Interesting conversation exploring the Black Pill and civil war. While personally I disagree with Tom on a lot of things, particularly being charitable to Trump and his actions (hoping shutdown could lead to balanced budget etc), there was a great call to action by Tom at the end.
"You're not taking my home from me. I decided to stay. I decided to not be a pussy and leave. And now we fight however we have to. It's gonna suck."
This is the type of energy Canada needs to become Citadel Country.
As well the conversation around the middleclass and real estate was solid.
Thanks for a great conversation.
The Bitcoin Matrix • Tom Luongo - They Lost Control of the Markets • Watch on Fountain
Realistically, any vision of "reviving a small rural town" requires several things:
1. A "core" of perhaps six men working in concert
2. A town with very-very-cheap real estate and *ample* cheap housing
3. The six men making a pact to all buy property at the same time -- and vowing to stay for 5 years at least
4. The six men also working to obtain influence in local institutions (town council, police force, utilities, downtown businesses)
5. The six men agreeing to keep things absolutely quiet until they've acquired real estate -- and then boosting the town by name in their respective online circles.
6. Their efforts must also be individual in nature, not collectivized under a single company, banner, name, or public mission statement.
This is what I might call "the flash mob model" of small town revival. It does several things all at once; it keeps the place off the radar of the general public until the time is right, it "shocks" the local status quo in a distributed, decentralized way, and it establishes a "hard core" of first-settlers that can make it easier for others to move to that town later.
The biggest challenge of deploying this model is finding 6 footloose men with an interest in settling somewhere remote, depressed, dysfunctional, and with long periods of foul weather. They must also each independently have enough free cash to purchase a house and hopefully also some kind of commercial real estate. IF you can get that started -- you seriously stand a chance at injecting some life into a dying town, and turning it into the kind of "destination" that is much-needed amongst thinking people in the USA.
These are the fruits of a recent discussion I had with a friend of mine who has, like me, thought about these kinds of things for many years.
But again, finding six men -- thinking men, and at that, thinking men with savings -- who wish to commit several years of their life to a distressed town in Upstate NY is not easy. Of course, the fruits the project could bear could really be incredible. I genuinely think that by shifting the energy we find in the better corners of this website to the IRL, offline space -- and giving that energy a definitive, very-low-cost outlet in Upstate NY -- we could do an immense service both to this place and to American intellectual culture at large.
