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August 15, 2025 · 1h 30m

BASED BITCOIN VETERANS, DECENTRALIZING MINING, & BUILDING FREEDOM TECH | AVERAGE GARY

Walker America interviews Average Gary about his experience as a former Chinese linguist for the Navy and his current work in Bitcoin, focusing on veteran involvement, mining, and freedom technologies.

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9 And with open source technology and the jet fuel that is Bitcoin, sending all of the idealistic 10 Bitcoiners into the top tier of elite society, cryptography is only going to accelerate from 11 here.

And open source technology is one of the means that we're going to accelerate it.

14 Bitcoin continues to create new blocks every 10 minutes 15 and the value of one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin.

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there's like a satoshi quote of it might not be the solution but it will buy some time in the in

the war for freedom and and really if you look back to like the early cypherpunks and just

cryptography in general like the powers that cryptography offer the individual and if you

haven't read crypto sovereignty by eric case and i definitely recommend it but the power that

cryptography offers the individual and cryptography enables not just bitcoin right bitcoin is just the

best money that we found to use with cryptography but cryptography underpins everything we do in

our digital modern age and enabling the average person to use cryptography to protect themselves

from people that would wish them harm or ill will to their way of life is a powerful concept.

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Walker America interviews Average Gary about his experience as a former Chinese linguist for the Navy and his current work in Bitcoin, focusing on veteran involvement, mining, and freedom technologies.