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92: David vs. Goliath with Sunny Ray

Sunny Ray is the host of two podcasts and a cofounder of one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges UnoCoin. He tells us a David vs. Goliath type of story (little takes on the big) wherein his company fights for the right to have banking services for Unocoin in India. Sunny has been a long time supporter and participant in people and businesses building on bitcoin. The conversation broaches into “Why Bitcoin vs. everything else”, NFTs, and freedom in general.
 
Sunny Ray Social Links
- https://twitter.com/SunnyRayShow
- https://patreon.com/sunnyrayshow
- https://sunnyray.com
 
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:35) - Sunny, Unocoin, and the fight for Bitcoin in India
(09:47) - The Media, and Bitcoin vs other cryptocurrencies in India
(15:01) - Sunny's Bitcoin story, and the origin of Unocoin
(30:02) - The dynamics of working out of both Canada and India
(38:00) - Sunny's evolution into believing that Bitcoin is the one coin
(52:51) - Talking about NFTs
(58:16) - Summarizing Sunny's career, and various opportunities
(1:03:15) - Sunny's experience in Ottawa, and the 'Love and Freedom Show'
(1:18:00) - Closing Thoughts
 
Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/

91: How Taxes Shape Your Behaviour

Mrugakshee and Keegan discuss the role of taxes in shaping the behaviour of a population. Keegan shares insights after reading Dominic Frisby’s book “Daylight Robbery”, a book about the past, present, and future of taxes. Taxes end up playing a much bigger role in our lives than we might think on the surface, this podcast sheds light into the role of government, and the influence they have one the lives of its citizens through the taxation of money, and labour.
 
Mentions from the show
- Dominic Frisby https://dominicfrisby.com/
- Daylight Robbery https://www.amazon.com/Daylight-Robbery-Shaped-Change-Future-ebook/dp/B07NCZ5SJQ
 
Timestamps:
 
(00:00) - Introduction
(02:51) - Introducing the book, 'Daylight Robbery', by Dominic Frisby
(10:27) - How do you define taxes?
(20:15) - How good intentions have divergent outcomes when it comes to taxation
(29:59) - How national and state governments incentivize migration through tax laws
(38:10) - Accounting for cryptocurrencies going forward, and making the tax system more efficient
(54:53) - Tax, and the American Civil War
(1:02:25) - Closing Thoughts
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/
 

90: Ben Arc on LNbits

Ben Arc is the founder of LNbits and a passionate Bitcoiner. In this episode, he tells us the story of how he discovered the problem he set out to solve, i.e. LNbits. He also talks about how makers, hobbyists, and tinkerers can make use of LNbits and hardware devices to their advantage. We ended the episode with what bitcoin is to him, and why he was at the conference.
 
Running Bitcoin - runningbitcoin.us
 
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
04:17 - Introducing Ben
09:47 - The Lightning World, early Bitcoin days, and the first phone wallet
14:00 - Ben's journey developing hardware and technology for the Lightning network, and LNURL
25:45 - LNbits, and the gap in the market it sought to fill
41:57 - More use cases - like the offline shop extension, and Ben's workshops
54:35 - Ben shouts out some tools he uses, and other projects in the works
1:05:44 - What does Bitcoin mean to Ben?
1:09:15 - Contact Info and Closing Thoughts
 
Ben's Socials:
Ben Arc on Twitter - https://twitter.com/arcbtc
GitHub Repository - https://github.com/arcbtc
LNBits Lightning Wallet - https://legend.lnbits.com/
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/
 
 

89: Capitalism, Socialism, and Cryptocurrency with Andrew Bergel

Andrew Bergel is an instructor of environmental governance at Dalhousie university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He joins us for the second part of the interview where we talk about Andrew's experience as an instructor at Dalhousie University. The conversation ventures generally into socialism, capitalism, with an overtone of cryptocurrency and bitcoin.
 
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Discussing Andrew's educational background
(03:57) - Discussing regulations, and how do traditional finance norms work here?
(12:46) - How regulation and normalization of crypto trading might affect hedge funds
(15:08) - What led Andrew towards crypto
(31:33) - Does increase in price make Bitcoin less risky? And Crypto in the classroom
(37:47) - Portfolio diversity philosophy, 'trying to catch a falling knife', and Sector Rotation
(51:09) - The monetary policy of Bitcoin, and reading patterns as a trader
(58:45) - Dialog about crypto and capitalism in the classroom
(1:14:29) - Tangential talk about philosophy, money systems and sci-fi dystopias
(1:22:10) - Bitcoin, Energy and Sustainability
(1:32:15) - Discussing outlooks towards crypto when it comes to buying/holding
(1:39:53) - Some life advice from Andrew, and closing thoughts
Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
 
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
 
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/BitcoinKeegan
 
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/
 

88: Hedge Fund Trading, 2008, and Understanding Finance with Andrew Bergel

Andrew Bergel is an instructor of environmental governance at Dalhousie university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He joins us to discuss his experience working on Wall Street as a stock and futures trader. Andrew’s experience with finance, governance, and the environment gives him a unique perspective on cryptocurrency at large.
 
Timestamps:
 
(00:00) - Introduction
(03:20) - Introducing Andrew, and his background
(12:34) - Dealing with different tiers of clients in the finance industry, and computer based trading
(23:21) - Price to Earnings Ratio, and how we perceive value of stock
(33:28) - How lack of financial literacy and education is a trap
(44:29) - What made Andrew quit his trading job?
(48:16) - The crash of 2008, and current inflation concerns
(57:38) - Setting up Part 2, and Closing Thoughts
Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.
 
Find Adrew B here - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/andrewbergel
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/

87: Growing Pains on Bitcoin Adoption with Dorothy

There is more than meets the eye in terms of what is going on in El Salvador. This is why we spoke with Dorothy. She is a Spanish speaking Canadian who has been in El Salvador for about 2 months. She's been transacting in bitcoin, conversing with the locals, and helping them to understand why and how to use bitcoin. She joins us to share her boots on the ground experience on what bitcoin adoption is like in El Salvador.
 
Timestamps:
 
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:51) - Introducing Dorothy, and the onset of Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador
(09:38) - Transparency in volatility of a currency
(15:53) - Issues with Chivo, and the government's lack of advertising/marketing
(25:09) - How the Salvadorans have responded to Bitcoin, and financial literacy
(40:38) - Issues with financial literacy as a whole
(50:40) - Bitcoin adoption and modernization, without losing heritage and culture
(1:04:56) - A few thoughts on Canada trending towards authoritarianism
(1:12:58) - Closing Thoughts
 
Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.
 
Dorothy's Social Links
DorothySells.com
 
Go Full Crypto's Social Links
Keegan Francis Newsletter
GoFullCrypto.com
MrugaksheePalwe.com
keeganfrancis.com
Keegan Twitter
Mrugakshee Instagram

86: Our 2 Week Experience in El Salvador

When we interviewed Mike Peterson in Ep 16 of our podcast, it was then that we decided we were going to come visit El Zonte. A little over a year after recording that episode, we made it to El Salvador. Our experience here has been nothing short of amazing. In this episode, we recount a couple stories of witnessing how adopting bitcoin has been for the people of El Salvador.
 
Keegan's letter on Bitcoin City
Keegan's private letter titled "My Week in El Salvador"
 
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:34) - El Salvador - First Impression
(05:52) - Experience spending Bitcoin in El Salvador
(10:02) - The Chivo Wallet, and some difficulties faced as a result of it
(15:38) - More Bitcoin experiences
(27:09) - Could restaurants double up as ATMs?
(30:01) - Assorted stories
(35:00) - Wrapping up, and closing thoughts
 
Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/
 

85: Goodnight Bitcoin and SHAmory founders Scott and Malory

Goodnight Bitcoin is a children's book and SHAmory is a card game that teaches the players about how bitcoin mining works. We interviewed founders Scott and Malory, to learn about what lead them to create these products for bitcoin, and why bitcoin is important to them. We discovered these games and books are not just for children, but also for the parents and grandparents reading them.
 
SHAmory website
How to Play SHAmory video
Goodnight Bitcoin movie
 
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Introduction
(02:19) - Introducing Scott, Mallory, and SHAmory
(07:04) - Scott and Mallory's Bitcoin stories, and the concept behind SHAmory 
(18:43) - Discussing Financial Literacy, and Goodnight Bitcoin
(30:48) - Plans to raise awareness for Goodnight Bitcoin, and Bitcoin in Education
(36:20) - Some messages from Scott and Mallory for the public
(39:41) - Contact info, and closing thoughts
 
Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.
 
Go Full Crypto Social Links
Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com
Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/
 
Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan
Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/