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Parker Lewis is the author of "Gradually, Then Suddenly" and Head of Business Development at Zaprite, working on Bitcoin payments after four years building collaborative custody at Unchained.

This conversation on X Spaces yesterday with Parker, Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert, and moderator Jethro Toro covered...

• Parker’s path from Wall Street to Bitcoin: Deutsche Bank during the 2008 financial crisis, then Hayman Capital, where studying how the Fed would unwind quantitative easing led him down the Bitcoin rabbit hole in 2016
• The story behind Gradually, Then Suddenly: an introduction to Saifedean Ammous, an early manuscript of The Bitcoin Standard, and reasoning through the most common questions about Bitcoin
• Why self-custody is still so important: the Silicon Valley Bank failure, the fragility of the banking system, and multisig collaborative custody
• Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange: why payments are what let Bitcoin stand apart from the fiat rails, and Parker’s work at Zaprite
• Texas and El Salvador: “Bitcoin Country” and the “center of hash” and why freedom-minded people move to Bitcoin-friendly jurisdictions
• Bitcoin Histórico: a unique OG Bitcoin conference experience, where people can learn from the best speakers who have been in Bitcoin since the early days, at El Salvador’s National Palace, including Parker’s talk “Bitcoin Is Not a Panacea”

Join us for the full Freedom Month experience this November:

📍 10th · Bitcoin Capital Summit

📍 11 & 12 · BitcoinHistorico.com

(use code “COWBOY21” for 21% off)

📍 13th · Renaissance Rodeo

📍 18 & 19 · EmTech AI Conference

📍 19 & 20 · Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit

You can check out the original Space here: https://x.com/i/spaces/1nxnRBkpNQjxO?s=20

Relevant accounts on X:

https://x.com/btchistoricosv

https://x.com/parkeralewis

https://x.com/maxkeiser

https://x.com/stacyherbert

https://x.com/JethroToro

https://x.com/BitcoinOfficeSV

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Efrat Fenigson is an independent journalist, Bitcoin educator, and host of the You're the Voice podcast (@EfratFenigson). Before that, she held a senior position in corporate tech.

El Salvador in 2021 became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender.

Efrat has visited the country several times, and she met President Bukele after speaking at the inaugural Bitcoin Histórico.

In this interview a couple of days later, Efrat and I discussed:

• El Salvador's transformation under President Bukele: life before and after the end of gang violence, seen by someone who grew up with war at home
• what President Bukele told Bitcoiners at dinner: after the IMF loan, is Bitcoin still part of El Salvador's plan?
• why someone who is "the last person to be looking for heroes and saviors" says Bukele gives her hope
• being vilified by the prime minister of her own country, and finding sanity again far from home
• her message to the builders of Bitcoin circular economies, from Berlín and El Zonte in El Salvador to Bitcoin Ekasi in South Africa

You can also watch this interview on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SIs2cOXRks

Efrat will return to El Salvador this November to speak at BitcoinHistorico.com again.

It's a unique conference at the National Palace, organized by El Salvador's Bitcoin Office, showcasing the many ways it's leading in Bitcoin adoption: strategic reserve, educational initiatives, circular economies, government policies, capital markets, and more.

Round 2 will be this November 11-12 during Freedom Month in El Salvador. Check out the full speaker list and get your tickets at BitcoinHistorico.com to join us at the National Palace.

LINKS:

Efrat Fenigson on X: https://x.com/efenigson

You're the Voice podcast: / @efratfenigson

Jethro Toro on X: https://x.com/JethroToro

Bitcoin Histórico on X: https://x.com/btchistoricosv

El Salvador's Bitcoin Office: https://x.com/bitcoinofficesv

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Knut Svanholm is an author of five books about Bitcoin, economics, and freedom as well as the host of the Bitcoin Infinity Show.

This conversation on X Spaces yesterday with Knut, Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert, and moderator Jethro Toro covered...

• Knut's five books: Sovereignty through Mathematics (2019), Bitcoin: Independence Reimagined (2020), Everything Divided by 21 Million (2022), Praxeology: The Invisible Hand that Feeds You (2023), and Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World (2024, with Luke de Wolf)
• Knut's experience visiting El Salvador twice: Bitcoin Histórico, a sunset acoustic set in Bitcoin Beach, and a dinner with President Bukele
• Knut's philosophical perspective on the nine pillars of Bitcoin Histórico: Economic Liberty, Culture, Education, Individual Sovereignty, Art, Community, Freedom Money, Technology, Experience
• The Renaissance 2.0 in El Salvador
• Bitcoin Histórico: a unique OG Bitcoin Conference experience, where people can learn from the best speakers who have been in Bitcoin since the early days, at El Salvador's National Palace

Join us for the full Freedom Month experience this November:

📍 10th · Bitcoin Capital Summit

📍 11 & 12 · BitcoinHistorico.com (use code "COWBOY21" for 21% off)

📍 13th · Renaissance Rodeo

📍 18 & 19 · EmTech AI Conference

📍 19 & 20 · Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit

You can check out the original Space here:

https://x.com/i/spaces/1YxNrbkeyORxw?s=20

Relevant accounts on X:

https://x.com/btchistoricosv

https://x.com/knutsvanholm

https://x.com/maxkeiser

https://x.com/stacyherbert

https://x.com/JethroToro

https://x.com/BitcoinOfficeSV