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CodyEllingham 4 months ago
Running A Marathon In North Korea + Arrested In China With Johan Nylander 🎧 I had the opportunity to sit down with journalist and Amazon best-selling author Johan Nylander. Johan shares with me why running is important to him, and how he ended up running marathons in North Korea and Mongolia. He also opens up for the first time publicly about his experience getting arrested in Xinjiang, Western China, while reporting on the oppression that the Muslim population faces there. This episode is a must-watch. We tackle some bigger questions about freedom, the role of journalism, technology, and why it is important to go and see the world with your own eyes. [Other ways to listen](https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/running-a-marathon-in-north-korea-arrested-in-china-with-johan-nylander)
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CodyEllingham 6 months ago
🎧 What Is The Future Of Stablecoins? With Allen Farrington & Cody Ellingham 🎧 Allen Farrington co-wrote Bitcoin Is Venice and Only The Strong Survive, and is a co-founder of Axiom, a Bitcoin-focused venture firm. We discuss the future of stablecoins, their potential scaling issues, and the possibility of stablecoins moving over to taproot assets on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Check out the original article that we discuss: ["A Half-Baked Thesis on Stablecoins" by Allen Farrington](https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpqnwn7y4hqdtgxj9ygngkfy7drgze2qkpr002c4yj08wxhlut36eqqxnzde5xs6rjv3kxcer2vp3lc8ac9)
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CodyEllingham 7 months ago
🎧 In a world of silence and screens, where the body hides and the voice is masked, what is our political power?
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CodyEllingham 7 months ago
The Waves of Meaning | Cody Ellingham https://www.patreon.com/posts/waves-of-meaning-127326271 "In the choppy ocean of meaning-making the waves are colliding and smashing together constantly in ways that are unpredictable and profound." originally posted at
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CodyEllingham 8 months ago
✨ Can you pull the money lever just right to control inflation? Spotted at Bank of England exhibition on money and the future of money. If you think that's crazy then you should study Bitcoin. image
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CodyEllingham 10 months ago
🎧 I am joined by Carmen Lau is a former Hong Kong District Councillor who was forced to resign by the government and later fled Hong Kong to the UK where she lives in exile. She is a pro-democracy and freedom advocate with the Hong Kong Democracy Council and a Freedom Fellow with the Human Rights Foundation and is wanted by the Hong Kong police with a $1 million Hong Kong dollar bounty being offered for information leading to her arrest. We talk about freedom and self-determination and importantly what it means to lose freedoms that you once had. We also touch on China and the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.
Photography of unplaces. Somewhere in Tokyo. Instagram does not want me to upload this image for some reason so maybe I can get some zaps here instead? image
🎧 Latest pod is out. I talk with Sovereign Origin ( @Sovereign Origin 🥕 ) about his concept FITS (Financially Independent, Time Sovereign) a new alternative to the traditional FIRE movement (Financially Independent, Retire Early). While both approaches aim to escape the “rat race,” FITS redefines the pursuit of financial independence through the lens of Bitcoin, focusing on sovereignty over one’s time with a unique perspective towards wealth, work, and life. We had a great talk about the FITS concept, exploring some of the technical aspects, as well as some of the challenges inherent in the traditional FIRE approach which is built on the premise of the ongoing growth of the stock market and ultimately is not truely independent because the state can always come and turn off or confiscate your retirement fund – Something they can’t do with Bitcoin.
🎧 Latest pod is out. James Pierog is co-founder and CEO of Bitcoin Prediction Market, a new company back by Bitcoin startup accelerator Wolf, enabling bets on real-world events using the Bitcoin Lightning Network. We explore what a prediction market is, why Bitcoin is the perfect medium for this, and what new forms of crowd intelligence through prediction markets could mean in an increasingly complex world. Along the way we discuss the intersection of philosophy and mathematics, the wisdom of the crowd, AI, and the challenge of dealing with rapid change.
🌊⛏️ I had the awesome chance to visit a 50KW Bitcoin mining site in Gunma, Japan, operated by Agile Energy X, a subsidiary of TEPCO Power Grid. Big thanks to the team at @OCEAN who I tagged along with! The site is operated by TEPCO Renewable & Power utilising 50KW of solar that would otherwise be wasted as the site is currently awaiting grid upgrade and connection. I think this is a big step forward for broader engagement with power generators about how Bitcoin can help the grid and for understanding the opportunity to participate in this new monetary network. There is a lot that we can learn from the power of Bitcoin mining to act as both a load balancing and grid stabilisation tool, as well as helping with the ROI and financial planning of new generation assets.
🎧 What could Bitcoin mean for New Zealand at a national level? Samson Mow is the former Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream and current CEO at JAN3, focussed on Nation-state Bitcoin adoption as well as developing the Aqua Bitcoin wallet. Samson is well known for advising various governments and heads of state about Bitcoin adoption, including in El Salvador with their plan to issue Bitcoin Bonds. We discuss the game theory and approaches to nation-state Bitcoin Adoption, including the Bitcoin mining and energy story and how smaller countries like New Zealand can approach Bitcoin at both a grass-roots and state level.
🎧 Latest pod is out. Andrew M. Bailey @Andrew M. Bailey is a Professor and co-author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical case for Bitcoin. We discuss the book’s approach to communicating the idea of Bitcoin from a global perspective, providing strong arguments for Bitcoin’s value as a net good for the world. We also talk about the history of political philosophy and how ideas spread as well as the new interdisciplinary Bitcoin Research Institute at the University of Wyoming where Andrew will be taking on a role as Professor of Philosophy.