Isabel Foxen Duke⚡️@isabelfoxenduke
BITCOIN RAILS #49: The "Cultural Fork" of Bitcoin | with @nottjmiller
🔗 YOUTUBE: youtu.be/xeChoOC8mEw
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I was introduced to Silicon Valley's @nottjmiller a little over a year ago while he was brainstorming how we could potentially inscribe a 4-megger comedy video through @MARA Slipstream (shout out to @ordinalsbot for the idea).
A Bitcoiner since 2018, TJ saw the potential of Ordinals to orange-pill a whole new kind of Bitcoiner — the kind that may realistically be intimidated by (or straight up uninterested in) ivory-tower technical or economic topics.
"I talk about cultural adoption and how do we bring Bitcoin into the cultural forefront."
Letting me into "his world" for this interview, TJ and I recorded this chat straight from @StandComedyClub before his Bitcoin-focused set during @chainlink New York blockchain week [full set forthcoming in the comments].
Shout out to @cryptokelley @MelrosePR @ValidationCloud and @BitwireFeed for organizing the event. It was a banger 🔥
In this episode, TJ and I jam about:
- How TJ was orange-pilled by the Winklevoss twins @cameron @tyler (+ the Michigan twins of course!)
- Why TJ's wife, Kate, is a hardcore Bitcoin maxi... despite TJ loving Ethereum and @DOGE on the side
- How comedy could orange pill the world
- And as usual we end with... @brockpierce. IYKYK.
For good measure, we also clear the air on @peterktodd [probably not] being Satoshi.
Unsurprisingly, we had an absolute blast and lots of laughs filming this episode. A nice little left turn from my usual technical schtick + some fun personal stories shared from both of our sides.
Bitcoin Rails is powered by:
— Best In Slot (@bestinslotxyz) - the leading API for Ordinals and BRC-20 data aggregation and indexing.
— Spark (@lightspark) - a statechains implementation advancing Bitcoin-powered payments.
— Citrea (@citrea_xyz) - a leading Bitcoin rollup technology and BitVM alliance contributor.
TIMESTAMPS 📌
00:00 Intro
04:46 Trading and Crypto Misconceptions
08:47 Bitcoin and Early Adopters
17:13 Ethereum and Blockchain Exploration
38:55 NFTs and Artistic Ventures
40:46 The First NFT Comedy Special
41:31 The FTX Collapse and Its Impact
47:28 Ordinals and Bitcoin Utility
51:41 The Ordinals Cultural Fork
53:20 Cultural Adoption of Bitcoin
01:09:06 Bitcoin Comedy and Community
