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Ep. 209: ‘Is money speech?’ with Robert Breedlove
There is a recurring debate in the free speech community regarding whether money is speech.
Bitcoin-focused entrepreneur, writer, and philosopher Robert Breedlove joins us today to discuss this very question. Describing money as “the language of human action,” Robert makes the case that money, like the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is information and should be free from government regulation and manipulation. During this longer-than-usual episode, Robert and Nico discuss everything from Keynesian economics and 3D-printed firearms to the Chinese Communist Party.
Robert is the host of the popular podcast, “The ‘What is Money?’ Show,” which dives into the nature of money by asking guests one simple question: What is money? In 2020, he co-authored the book, “Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money.”
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
3:56 Robert’s background
19:21 What is Austrian economics?
24:23 Is money speech?
44:48 Can money express irrational things?
51:59 Is access to perfect information always a good thing?
1:05:17 Bitcoin and anonymity
1:14:58 Prediction markets
1:18:14 Theories of information/the marketplace of ideas
1:31:49 Is code speech?
1:39:59 Is economic freedom more fundamental than freedom of speech?
1:49:13 Regulating bitcoin
1:55:16 Bitcoin ETFs
1:57:03 Rapid-fire Bitcoin questions
2:06:16 Does more access to information make the world a better place?
2:06:53 Outro
Show Notes
“The ‘What is Money?’ Show”
“The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin
“The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous
“The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Friedrich Hayek
“The Logic of Scientific Discovery” by Karl Popper
“Areopagitica” by John Milton
Ep. 176 Can a graphic designer be compelled to design a website for a same-sex wedding?
Ep. 175 Jawboning, book banning, and LeBron James thinks hate speech isn’t free speech (also Elon Musk … again)
Ep. 174 Elon Musk, PayPal, and is New York trying to destroy Twitch?
Ep. 173 Does your book need a sensitivity reader?
Ep. 172 What does the First Amendment protect on social media?
Ep. 171 Nature Human Misbehavior
Ep. 170 Free speech and the American Founding
Ep. 169 The Art of Insubordination
Ep. 168 Assassin’s veto comes for Rushdie
Ep. 167 That Facebook post about abortion could land you in jail
Ep. 166 Substack, a platform for free speech?
Ep. 165 Title IX gets twisted again
Ep. 164 ‘The First Amendment created gay America’
Ep. 163 The new FIRE
Ep. 162 “Parental Advisory” and music censorship with Eric Nuzum
Ep. 161 What did ‘On the Media’ get wrong about free speech … again?
Ep. 160 Hugh Hefner, free speech scrapbooker
Ep. 159 Disney and Elon Musk
Ep. 158 What is academic freedom?
Ep. 157 Former BBC bureau chief Konstantin Eggert and what you need to know about censorship in Russia
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