Practical Bitcoin Maximalist with Juan Galt (video/podcast)
Juan Galt is a cryptocurrency journalist and consultant, who guides Bitcoin newbies to correct security practices. He's given a few presentations at Anarchapulco, and he formerly covered crypto for The Dollar Vigilante's newsletter. Juan lived in Colombia, then Canada, then Acapulco, and now he's travelling the world. I managed to get a hold of him over Skype, finding him in beautiful Prague.
A few weeks ago, Juan tweeted: "Bitcoin Maximalism is a reactive, defensive, pragmatic mindset to handle the hoards of shitcoins and token scams that will continue to form on the horizon, faces painted, ready to dive into us like Agent smith."
"Bitcoin maximalism" normally means when a crypto enthusiast supports Bitcoin to the exclusion of all other coins. When I got Juan for an interview, I realised his position is more nuanced. He makes the case that, with so many questionable or outright fraudulent projects in the crypto space, supporting Bitcoin raises the standard. By giving less attention to awful projects, he expects that we'll find a higher quality of coin in the future.
Join us on another coin-bending journey on this episode of ... The Paradise Paradox!
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Great video and debate. Most people are forgetting that Crypto is around 5% global adoption rate, still in the early days. This leaves a lot room and time for Cash alternatives like Dash to gain critical mass in places like Venezuela as a currency that people use everyday b/c it's user friendly and more simple for people to use w/ help centers than waiting on the 'perfect product' 10 years from now.
Thank you. I agree. I hope that Evolution comes through and we get to see what real, regular consumer-level UX in crypto looks like.
Take care
Man, I absolutely loved this interview.
I love Juan's energy, and although I don't know enough about crypto, to know if what he's saying is true or not; his energy, and belief in himself, totally sells me :)
His ability to hold an opposing view, still with total respect, speaks volumes about him too.
Your 5 min snippet of this, does this no justice bro. Not knowing anything about Juan, the 5 minutes of just his message, gives no value to his message. Watching this whole interview allows enough of himself to show, to give value to his message.
I would love to meet this guy someday.
Peace.
Thanks Bob. Yes, it's hard to take a short clip and get everything in there... That's the way it goes though, when people watch the short version they don't get the full story. It's great to be in the age of the Internet, where we can get or publish the full version of an interview.