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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. 117 What a summer …
Ep. 116 ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’ with Prof. Peter Singer
Ep. 115 ‘Dare to Speak’ with PEN America’s Suzanne Nossel
Ep. 114 Glenn Loury objects
Rebroadcast: How Daryl Davis, a black man, defeats the Ku Klux Klan with open dialogue
Ep. 113 Charlottesville reflections with Rodney Smolla
Ep. 112 College social media censorship
Ep. 111 'Dear Colleague,' due process now required. Title IX rules analysis.
Ep. 110 The Constitution in the age of coronavirus w/ Prof. Josh Blackman
Ep. 109 Censorship pandemic
Ep. 108 A history of (dis)information wars in the Soviet Union and beyond
Ep. 107.1 "Coronavirus and the failure of the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’"
Ep. 107 FIRE, the coronavirus, and the failure of the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’
Ep. 106 ‘Free speech and justified true belief’ w/ prof. Joseph Blocher
Ep. 105 ‘Rap on Trial’
Ep. 104 Violent video games with Villanova Professor Patrick M. Markey
Ep. 103 Guns, addiction, and the press
Ep. 102 Cultural sites, slurs, antisemitism, and Title IX
Ep. 101 McCarthyism and The Red Scare
The 100th episode: The state of free speech in America
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