Meet the Bitcoin Taco Plebs - Bitcoin Magazine
Meet The Taco Plebs is a show by the plebs, for the plebs. This is meant to highlight the plebs and give them a bigger audience to have their voices heard. All plebs have an important voice with interesting stories and strong beliefs. The Taco Plebs are the cyber hornets of Bitcoin, calling out scammers & bad actors while stacking sats and helping each other learn as much as they can. You will never meet a more real group of people than the taco plebs. They are all truth and no noise. Sat stacking legends. Hosted by Nik @nikcantmine
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The Variety of Bitcoin With TexanHODL
05/31/2021
The Variety of Bitcoin With TexanHODL
In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Plebs,” BtcCasey and Tyler Laroche were joined by TexanHODL, a fellow Bitcoiner who has just started working in the industry.
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Bullish On Bitcoin Zoomers With Atlas
05/18/2021
Bullish On Bitcoin Zoomers With Atlas
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by Atlas HODL (@AtlasHodl), a sat stacking hustler and Bitcoin zoomer.
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Bullish On Lightning Network With Thomas Jestopher
05/03/2021
Bullish On Lightning Network With Thomas Jestopher
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by Thomas Jestopher (@Jestopher_BTC), a Lightning enthusiast and co-host of Bitcoin Kindergarten. We kick off this interview by Jestopher sharing his rabbit hole story, discussing his first attempt to buy bitcoin from Mt Gox in 2015. In order to buy bitcoin from there, you had to wire money to the exchange in Japan, and his bank actually blocked his transaction, forcing him to look for other avenues to acquire BTC. Using faucets, Jestopher was able to stack some sats in trade for his time watching ads on websites. He did this for a while, but didn’t make his first actual purchase until the bull run in 2017. At the time, he worked in a bank call center where he saw just how corrupt and unfair banks are to their customers. This in addition to the price catching his attention, caused him to fall deep down the rabbit hole. Jestopher shares his thoughts on how Bitcoin inspires innovation for builders and entrepreneurs to flourish. Since the Bitcoin protocol does not change, and upgrades only happen so often, that people now have a solid base layer they know will always be there, and they know nothing will change up on them in a negative way. This gives builders comfort knowing that they’re building on a solid foundation. Jestopher was one of the many people who got inspired to build on Bitcoin, and saw massive potential in the Lightning Network. We discuss the entrepreneurial opportunities that pop up thanks to Lightning and how people can become more independent from taking tips on the 2ed layer solution. Then we get his thoughts on using the Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
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Austrian Economics And Understanding Bitcoin with Hodlberry
04/26/2021
Austrian Economics And Understanding Bitcoin with Hodlberry
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by Hodlberry (@hodlberry), a faithful, honest, and hardworking pleb. This conversation started off with Hodlberry sharing his Bitcoin rabbit hole story. He goes into detail on some fun things he was doing at the time he found Bitcoin, like hosting a gun related podcast. Then he shares how when he first got into the space he bought some shitcoins, but ended his shitcoin phase early as he already understood Austrian Economics. From my own personal experience and seeing others as well, having/learning Austrian Economic teachings is crucial to getting a firm understanding of Bitcoin. Because of this understanding of Austrian Economics, he was already into gold and silver, but dropped those for more bitcoin eventually. Before Bitcoin, Hodlberry was living above his means and not saving a lot of money. Now with Bitcoin, he has adopted a lower time preference which is causing him to live below his means, and save more in Bitcoin. He shares his thoughts on the book Human Action by Ludwig von Mises and why it’s so important. This is a book I’ve yet to read, but I have read similar book to this such as The Theory of Money & Credit by Mises and the lessons you learn in these books are life changing. We also got into topics like home schooling children, how Bitcoin solved the problem of triple entry accounting, what Hodlberry wants to see moving forward with the Lightning Network, and more.
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Bitcoin Reinforces Good Habits With The Littlest Bitcoin Boomer
04/19/2021
Bitcoin Reinforces Good Habits With The Littlest Bitcoin Boomer
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by The Littlest Bitcoin Boomer (@littlesthodler), an optimistic, sat-stacking pleb. We start off this interview by going over The Littlest Bitcoin Boomer’s rabbit hole story, diving into what brought him to Bitcoin. Littlest shares he was going through a rough patch in his life, making bad decisions and being dishonest. Then he found Bitcoin, and his life did a complete 180. He shares how Bitcoin changed him and why Bitcoin reinforced good habits. He jumped onto Twitter to look for more discussion about Bitcoin, found the plebs, and joined. I like to say that the taco plebs are like a pack of wolves. The wolves take care and look after each other, will defending off and attacking any threat that is present. Littlest also shares some of his insights as to what’s going on over in Canada with the monthly $2,000 stimulus checks, and their “shaky liberal government.” He then shares how he loves Bitcoin’s equality and why it’s great. He explains that everyone stacks the sats they deserve. It’s another form of proof of work, you put in the work to earn fiat (or bitcoin straight up) to then buy and hodl bitcoin. You get to choose how much effort you put into stacking, and no one has an advantage over you. Everyone plays by the same rules, and no one can change that. It is up to the individual now to stack as much as they want. We go into why rules, not rulers, and how this is important to Bitcoin. We discuss how Bitcoin levels the playing field and I think the plebs are going to dominate in the future. Why? Because We are hardworking, smart and passionate individuals who do what’s best for ourselves and Bitcoin. This conversation got me really bullish, and I know it will make you bullish as well.
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Building A Career In Bitcoin With BtcCasey
04/12/2021
Building A Career In Bitcoin With BtcCasey
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by BtcCasey (@BtcCasey), a young gun who loves to write about Bitcoin. The other week, Casey flew into town with the rest of the Bitcoin Magazine team and I got the chance to meet him in person. Casey, the team, and I hung out all week and got to know each other a lot better, and I knew I just had to get him on the show. Casey is a Bitcoin zoomer, writing about Bitcoin and making a career out of it. I think it’s fantastic to see other young people pursuing their passions and aiming to be successful. Casey has a bright future and is making really smart moves right now that are building a foundation for his future self to really excel from. If you’re not reading his articles, you probably should be. In this interview, Casey discusses how getting involved in Bitcoin changed his career path, as well as his educational goals. He was previously in the healthcare industry and realized he wanted to leave to pursue writing, and he did just that. His time preference has lowered which has influenced the way he thinks about this future. He knows adopting a low-time preference at a young age comes with lots of benefits, and he’s trying to capitalize on all of it. He shares his thoughts on the leverage that Bitcoin gives individuals to view the world in a different light. Bitcoin is extremely powerful and has the ability to give people freedom from that leverage. The task of achieving financial freedom is pretty difficult under a fiat standard, but Bitcoin fixes this.
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Surfing, Construction, and Bitcoin With Surfer Jim
03/31/2021
Surfing, Construction, and Bitcoin With Surfer Jim
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by Surfer Jim (@surferjimw), a principled and hardworking pleb. We start off this conversation by Jim sharing how he found Bitcoin and fell down the rabbit hole. He talks about his childhood and how he was always an entrepreneur & builder. He liked to break things down, see how it operated, and build it back together. Hands-on work like this teaches you a lot about how and why things work and are the way they are. He also talks about how he used to earn money as a kid digging for clams. This was an easy way to make a quick buck, though some days weren’t as good as others. This then lead Jim to a new opportunity. One of Jim’s buddies offered him a job in a different field of work, and he jumped on the opportunity. He then worked 5-6 years as a salesman, but after listening to a motivational speech he knew he wanted to go a different type of work. Construction, because he knew he made great quality stuff that he could sell and build trust with his customers. This is where Bitcoin comes in, because Bitcoin helps build trust between him and his customers. After his rabbit hole story, we talk about how schools don’t teach kids about money and why that’s bad. Learning about money today is a totally different separate process you have to partake in away from school because school has a clear incentive not to teach you about it. I think many kids make poor financial decisions in their early life that negatively affects them in the near and far future. Studying Bitcoin fixes this. After studying Bitcoin and getting a firm grasp on it, Jim is excited about his future. He understands the freedom it gives him to enjoy the rest of his life, allowing him to do whatever he pleases. He is more stoked on Bitcoin and life than you!
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Bitcoin, Venezuela, And Day Game With Apex ₿
03/17/2021
Bitcoin, Venezuela, And Day Game With Apex ₿
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by Apex ₿ (@malandrox7), a no-bullshit and passionate Bitcoin pleb. I’ve been meming, shitposting, and talking Bitcoin with Apex on Twitter for well over a year now, and really happy he decided to come on the show. We’ve talked on Clubhouse before this podcast and he’s a cool dude who’s What also caught my eyes was his interest and tweets about day game, which I don’t know of anyone else on Bitcoin Twitter who tweets about it. We started off this interview with Apex sharing his rabbit hole story and how he found Bitcoin. Apex found Bitcoin in 2016 at around the very start of that big run-up in price to ~$20,000. A lot has changed since that last bull run with infrastructure being built, new types of buyers in the market, and more. We riffed on why we think this bull market is different and what could happen in the next coming year. Apex explains how he saw the hyperinflation happening in front of his eyes while he lived in Venezuela, and realized the importance of Bitcoin quickly. He talks about seeing the prices of cigarettes rise and noticed something was wrong. Today in the United States, we are starting to see prices of goods and services rise because of all the money printing we’ve done this past year. All fiat currencies eventually face the same fate of hyperinflation and wealth evaporation, and seeing these warning signs all around us should be the green light to buy some bitcoin. Later on, Apex explains how Bitcoin helps you stop over-consuming, and he uses himself as a good example. He shares he loves sunglasses and in the past has needlessly dropped some money buying more pairs, but Bitcoin has changed his time preference and incentives, and now he uses that money to buy more bitcoin! I add on how the FUD of “since Bitcoin is deflationary, people will stop buying things and the economy will fail”. To which I disagree with that because people today are way overconsuming, to the point where they just go further and further into debt. Bitcoin fixes this by cutting out the needless spending. This cut back on spending allows for people to save their money and build wealth, while still spending their money on better goods and services they want. We end off the podcast talking about all the new brilliant minds coming into the space, and how they raise the level of quality of Bitcoin education. Every year we have smarter and smarter people entering Bitcoin and giving their valuable insights, opinions, and research. Apex is bullish on future Bitcoiners! He also thinks that Bitcoin is the perfect tool to advance humanity forward, and I couldn’t agree more. Why does he think that? You’ll have to listen to the show to find out!
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Falling Down The Rabbit Hole With LABRA HODL
03/10/2021
Falling Down The Rabbit Hole With LABRA HODL
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by Labra (@labrahodl6), one of the star memers of Bitcoin Twitter. Labra and I kick off this conversation by Labra sharing his rabbit hole story and how he came to Bitcoin. He tells us that Bitcoin first popped up on his radar all the way back in 2012. He didn’t dive too deep into it then and get involved, unfortunately, but not too long later he heard about it again when PayPal was blocking bitcoin payments. This caught his attention even more and then he dove headfirst into bitcoin in 2017 during the last bull run. And the rest is history! Over the course of this interview, Labra shares that adopting a lower time preference has changed his life and allowed him to save more. We talked a bit about responsibility and work experience. Many kids and teenagers today (here in the US) do not work anymore. Working summer/winter jobs and doing work like mowing grass and raking leaves are opportunities wasted by so many today. They are not learning the responsibility having a job takes and then the responsibility of the money that comes with it. Some of Labra’s favorite things about Bitcoin is the ability to self custody your wealth and the opportunity to store your monetary energy into a capped supply of 21 million. Your wealth does not get inflated away with bitcoin and that allows you to actually save your wealth. It’s impossible to save in fiat, so this is life-changing. And also, he’s extremely bullish on the Bitcoin Zoomers!
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Leaving The Legacy Financial System For Bitcoin With BTC Bap
03/03/2021
Leaving The Legacy Financial System For Bitcoin With BTC Bap
In this podcast, Bap shares his rabbit hole story and his journey coming to Bitcoin after hearing about it a couple of times. He in particular has an interesting background in traditional finance and after working there as a Bitcoiner for a while, he just couldn’t do it anymore. He needed to break free from the constraints of his old job and pursue his interest in Bitcoin, and he has done just that. Bap explains that growing up he had always been a pretty frugal dude, saving whatever he could. He even shared an interesting story about receiving bars of silver as a graduation gift for college! Later on we discuss the unique saving strategies of Bitcoiners who put most of their income straight into BTC. I talk about how you can allocate 50-60% of your paycheck and Bitcoiners will say “what is that? An allocation for ants?”. It’s funny to think that anyone outside the Bitcoin space would think you’re crazy for saving that much but, Bitcoiners know there is only 21 million bitcoin and everyone in the world is competing against each other for them. We have to stack as much as we can. Bap explains that a beautiful thing about Bitcoin is that there are rules without rulers. The network is run on consensus, leaving no room or anyone to control it. I touch on the importance of how strong the network is against bad actors who have tried to control the space in the past couple of years. Many of tried to control it, all have failed. There are many great leaders in the Bitcoin space but as Bitcoiners have shown, if they try anything malicious, then Bitcoiners would (and have before) wage war on them.
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How Bitcoin Changed My Life With Yung Lerk
02/17/2021
How Bitcoin Changed My Life With Yung Lerk
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by fellow pleb Yung Lerk (@YungLerk_) for his first-ever podcast appearance. This was one of my favorite episodes I’ve recorded in this series and I’m sure you’ll love it just as much as I did. We kick off this interview by discussing Lerk’s rabbit hole story and how he found Bitcoin. He shares how he went through 4 touch process with Bitcoin after finding it for the first time in 2012, and seeing it pop back up over and over again as time went on. He remembers his friends buying things from silk road with bitcoin and talks a little about that. Bitcoin changes you, you don’t change Bitcoin. And Lerk explains just how much he’s changed since coming into the Bitcoin space. Precoiner Lerk would spend lots of money of things he didn’t necessarily need, and explained how he earned a good amount of money but didn’t know what to do with it. Once he dove down the rabbit hole, he stopped the needly spending to accumulate as much bitcoin as possible, and he hasn’t looked back. He mentions the importance of bitcoin’s finite supply of 21 million, and why that urges him to stack harder. This leads to a discussion about time preference and savings, and how Bitcoin completely changes your incentives in life. “If it doesn’t change your life, you’re doing it wrong” he says, and I completely agree. Many people who buy bitcoin don’t get into it and learn why it’s important. Bitcoin is powerful enough to change the lives of anyone, so if it doesn’t change yours, you may be going about it wrong.
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Trading Our Time To Earn Bitcoin With Beeforbacon1
02/10/2021
Trading Our Time To Earn Bitcoin With Beeforbacon1
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by fellow pleb Math Cannot Be Banned (@beeforbacon1) for his first-ever podcast appearance. We start off this conversation with the guest sharing his rabbit hole story and how he found bitcoin. He explains that being a libertarian before finding bitcoin helped grasp the importance of having sovereign money and why bitcoin is important. He discusses his very brief shitcoin phase, which he is grateful that didn’t last long. One thing he touched in this podcast that I want to emphasize is that time is finite, and what you trade your time for is crucial. Working a normal job everyday earning fiat currency is not necessarily a recipe for success, as you are forced to risk your earned fiat in risky investments to escape monetary inflation. Bitcoin fixes this as you can save your monetary energy into the future with no risk as bitcoin has a capped supply, and no one can inflate your savings away. We also talk about meeting at Bit Block Boom last August in Dallas, Texas. He touches on the bitcoin community there and how they all tend to care about the same important topics, including living a low-time preference lifestyle and studying philosophy. Which really brings us all together and unites us as most people don’t seem to care about many of the things us Bitcoiners do, today. If there are any Taco Plebs you’d like to see on this show, make sure to drop their names and Twitter handles in the comments section below or tweet your feedback to @nikcantmine! For more compelling video content from Bitcoin's original publication, subscribe and turn on notifications for the Bitcoin Magazine YouTube channel.
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Protecting Our Savings In Bitcoin With Indian Hodl
02/03/2021
Protecting Our Savings In Bitcoin With Indian Hodl
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by fellow pleb Indian Hodl (l) for his first-ever podcast appearance. This touching discussion started off with his rabbit hole story, hearing about bitcoin from an event in the U.K. Hospitals in the U.K. were getting attacked and the attackers were demanding to get paid in bitcoin as ransom. He explained how he got a lot of hate from his friends on BTC, but that now, he’s the one laughing. We talked about how money is a belief system, and why he hates holding fiat currency. He said he sleeps better at night knowing that his money is safe and sound in an incorruptible currency. I agreed and that related to a saying I’ve been meming for a while now: “bitcoin zen.” That’s when you understand the current monetary system versus Bitcoin’s and you just feel at ease knowing you own money that is not being debased. Then we got into how people are not using bitcoin as an investment, but why they need it to survive. Americans who don’t get out of the country much don’t realize that people in developing countries need bitcoin to protect themselves from governments suppressing them and stealing their wealth. We ended the podcast by discussing what he would love to work on in Bitcoin when given the chance, and how he wants to help develop and further the Lightning Network in some way!
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Redefining Time Preference With Kaz Bycko
01/27/2021
Redefining Time Preference With Kaz Bycko
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” Nik was joined by the host of the “Down The Rabbit Hole Podcast” and Swan Bitcoin employee, . In this episode, we dove into Bycko’s past and talked about what brought him to Bitcoin. As he explained his rabbit hole story more and more, I consistently saw similarities to mine. We both got into Bitcoin during our senior years of college, then dove deeper into it in college and after college, we started to pursue careers in the space full time. We then jumped into what has changed in Bycko’s life personally after finding Bitcoin, and why he values Bitcoin that much more. Because remember, you don’t change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you. After we talked a little bit about high and low time preference, he touched on one’s time preference being more than just their spending habits. How you choose to spend your time and what you spend your time doing is a big factor in one’s happiness and success. Follow Kaz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/btcbycko?s=20 If there are any Taco Plebs you’d like to see on this show, make sure to drop their names and Twitter handles in the comments section below or tweet your feedback to @nikcantmine!
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Making Bitcoin Accessible For Everyone With Randy McMillian
01/27/2021
Making Bitcoin Accessible For Everyone With Randy McMillian
For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” Nik was joined by Randy McMillian, a fellow pleb that I met on “Bitcoin Kindergarten” who has been sharing some good knowledge and wisdom on that show lately. In this episode, we discussed certain interesting topics in Bitcoin that McMillan is most fond of, including repricing time. One very interesting topic that we got into was ditching the old fiat way of telling time (calendar year) and pursuing a new method: telling time by blocks. This is an interesting concept that I think has already caught on among Bitcoiners on Twitter as I’ve seen ongoing discussions about it. It’s a pretty cosmic idea but definitely not impossible to pull off. McMillan also shared a project he’s working on, for which he is researching Bitcoin accessibility for the visually impaired. He is currently researching Bitcoin usage for not only the visually impaired, but also the tactile impaired and dyslexic. Bitcoin is for everyone and that obviously includes the partially/fully blind, and McMillan wants to make Bitcoin easy to use for them. You can support Randy’s project here: https://github.com/sponsors/RandyMcMillan Follow Randy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RandyMcMillan?s=20 If there are any Taco Plebs you’d like to see on this show, make sure to drop their names and Twitter handles in the comments section below or tweet your feedback to @nikcantmine!
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Faith & Bitcoin With Saint Bitcoin
12/31/2020
Faith & Bitcoin With Saint Bitcoin
In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by a long time friend in the space, Saint Bitcoin (@Saint_BITCOIN). Saint is the host of the Pleb Talk Podcast, which is honestly one of my personal favorites. Unfortunately, it is on hold at the moment until travel restrictions lighten up, and then Saint will be back at it doing great in-person interviews with loads of plebs!
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Developing Bitcoin With Ben Carman
12/28/2020
Developing Bitcoin With Ben Carman
I’ve been interacting with Ben on Bitcoin Twitter for the past couple of years and is someone who I’ve even met in person via a conference. Ben has been contributing a lot to helping develop Bitcoin by working on Bitcoin Core, Wasabi Wallet, and now is a developer at Suredbits. In this podcast, we discuss how Ben got into Bitcoin and fell down the rabbit hole, after hearing about it a few times early on in Bitcoins past. We discuss what he was involved in before Bitcoin and the kind of work he did, and how that helped him transition into developing in this space. We then dove into what he’s working on currently at Suredbits. Ben walks us through his past and what his beliefs on life were before Bitcoin, and just how much they’ve changed. We discuss the problems that are in society today and why we have the problems we have today. The two came to the conclusion that the Federal Reserve and fiat money is at the core of all our problems today, and Bitcoin fixes this. Follow Ben on Twitter: If there are any Taco Plebs you’d like to see on this show, make sure to drop their names and Twitter handles in the comments section below or tweet your feedback to @nikcantmine!
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