I low-key think of myself as trying to help heal the public image of Bitcoin because a lot of people,
ORANGE PILLING WASHINGTON DC | Mads & Mills of Bitcoin Policy Institute
In this Bitcoin Talk episode of The Bitcoin Podcast, Walker interviews Mills and Mads from the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) about their work in demystifying Bitcoin to policymakers and promoting its adoption in America.
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1 I low-key think of myself as trying to help heal the public image of Bitcoin because a lot of people, 2 however they first heard about it, I mean, this is just human psychology, but like your first 3 impression tends to be hard to supplant.
And so if they thought it was drug money for Silk Road, 4 or if they thought that it's money laundering, or if they thought that it's like an incel in the 5 basement playing video games.
And it actually takes 6 a significant rewrite and, you know, neural pathway reconstruction to say, actually, it's 7 freedom money.
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however they first heard about it, I mean, this is just human psychology, but like your first
impression tends to be hard to supplant. And so if they thought it was drug money for Silk Road,
or if they thought that it's money laundering, or if they thought that it's like an incel in the
basement playing video games. That's probably how they still think about it. And it actually takes
a significant rewrite and, you know, neural pathway reconstruction to say, actually, it's
freedom money. Actually, there are a lot of really cool implications. It's like we're daywalkers
pretending that we're normal. We're still not normal, but we at least are normal passing.
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In this Bitcoin Talk episode of The Bitcoin Podcast, Walker interviews Mills and Mads from the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) about their work in demystifying Bitcoin to policymakers and promoting its adoption in America.
