Dave Bradley is the co-founder of Bull Bitcoin, a Canadian Bitcoin company. He also organizes the Bitcoin Rodeo, a Bitcoin-only conference. He mined his first Bitcoin in 2010 and in 2013 he opened his first Bitcoin business, a brick-and-mortar store called Bitcoin Brains.

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00:00 - Introduction and Early Bitcoin Mining Experience

03:01 - Bitcoin as a Solution to Government Control

10:52 - The Spiritual Aspect of Money and the Need for Hope

18:05 - The Degradation of Money and its Impact on Individuals

27:31 - The Attack on Individualism and the Challenge to Blind Trust in Government

29:19 - The Power of Incentives

32:18 - The Challenge of Intellectual Discourse

35:07 - Bitcoin: A Tool for Change

39:27 - The Misalignment of Incentives

43:03 - Are We Still Early?

48:02 - Progress and Prosperity

57:12 - Collective Efforts and Misaligned Incentives

59:33 - The Issue of Tribal Thinking and Collectivism

01:06:39 - Bitcoin's Removal of Non-Direct Taxation

01:19:36 - Bitcoin as the Solution to a Dystopian Economic State

01:23:18 - Currency Wars and Bitcoin's Emergence

01:26:40 - The Future of Currency: Bitcoin vs. the US Dollar