Why Bitcoin? The Separation of Money and State with Robert Breedlove (WiM571)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

Trey Brahem interviews me to explore the evolution of money, the emergence of money as the foundation of civilization, the psychological and moral consequences of fiat, the difference between wealth and money, why Bitcoin aligns with universal human ends, what the ideal money looks like, and how Bitcoin reintroduces truth, ethics, and sovereignty into a world distorted by debt and deception.

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0:00.0	Do you think that we need to separate the money in state?
0:03.0	Yes, for sure.
0:04.0	Do you think that we need a state?
0:05.0	There's a difference between the state and a government.
0:09.0	Inflation of the money drives people to be more short-term oriented.
0:14.0	It also leads to limitless government overgrowth.
0:19.0	Do you believe in the idea of God-given rights?
0:21.6	This is something that the U.S. Constitution is based on.
0:24.6	The freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, the government didn't give them to you.
0:30.6	If the CCP, which is the largest, most authoritarian, brutal regime in the history of the human race
0:36.6	can't even put a dent in the Bitcoin mining hash rate for more than a few months.
0:41.3	What state in the world is going to stop this thing?
0:43.3	How do we talk about the spectrum of money? What is the best and worst forms of it?
0:48.3	Bitcoin does not have industrial use cases.
0:50.3	Gold does? Bitcoin doesn't.
0:52.3	What I would describe that as is that gold is an imperfect
0:56.0	money. What the number zero is to the language of mathematics, God is to natural language.
1:03.0	It is the word for that which is beyond words. Is wealth the same thing as money.
1:18.9	Well, yeah, man.
1:22.9	Thanks for taking the time to do this with me. It's been like coming out.
1:24.2	Yeah, it's been a long time coming.
1:25.8	I had this idea for a documentary like 2020, I think or 2021.
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