Ross Ulbricht, Bitcoin, and the EU-Digital Wallet

Podcast Timestamps
(22.5-minute total runtime)

00:00 – 00:44 🎧 Ross Ulbricht’s Prison Message
00:45 – 01:58 🎤 Welcome + Episode Overview
01:59 – 05:17 🧩 Who Is Ross Ulbricht?
05:18 – 07:00 🌍 The Third-World Freedom Analogy
07:01 – 09:04 🏛️ Economic Systems: Austrian vs Keynesian
09:05 – 10:45 Bitcoin as an Economic Reset Tool
10:46 – 13:42 📓 Ross’s Diary & Misjudgment by Society
13:43 – 15:12 ⚖️ Power, Corruption & Government Contradictions
15:13 – 17:02 🚨 The Sentence: Disproportionate Justice
17:03 – 18:16 🔗 Freedom & Bitcoin: The Bigger Message
18:17 – 18:45 🧩 TOPIC 2 Transition – From Digital Liberty to Digital Cage
18:46 – 20:28 📲 EU Digital Identity Wallets Explained
20:29 – 21:40 📉 EU Overreach: From Vaccines to Cash Limits
21:41 – 22:10 📊 The Bigger Picture: EU's Slow Economic Collapse
22:11 – 22:36 🎤 Conclusion

Dear reader and podcast listener, I haven’t been posting for some weeks, but this is because I have been working on developing a better work to present to you in the long term.

We must transform and adapt to new times, which is what I’m doing with this podcast. Substack is evolving, the web3 space is heading towards a new phase, and the world is changing rapidly over the last months.

Evolution comes from questioning our principles and goals. So, this episode reviews a core aspect of the web3 ethos: freedom.

🧩 Topic 1 source:

• 237 billion dollars spent to bail out 700 banks in the US https://www.propublica.org/article/the-bailout-was-11-years-ago-were-still-tracking-every-penny

🧩 Topic 2 sources:

• Fertility rates - the fewer we are, the easier it is to control us: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?end=2023&locations=EU-ZQ-ZJ-Z4-US&start=1960&view=chart

Middle East & Africa (2.6) in green, Latin America & Caribbean (1.8) in purple, the US (1.6) in sky-blue, Europe (1.4) in blue, and East Asia & Pacific (1.3) in red.

• EU-wide cash limit for cash payment:
  https://anti-money-laundering.eu/eu-wide-limit-for-cash-payments/

• Annual GDP growth:
  https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2023&locations=XC-CN-US&start=1961

China's growth in green (5.2%), the US in purple (2.9%), and the Euro Area in blue (0.4%)

• 18 months away to launch the EU Digital Wallet:
  https://identityweek.net/18-months-to-launch-is-europe-ready-for-the-eu-digital-id-wallet/#:~:text=All%2027%20European%20Union%20member,have%20a%20one%2Dyear%20extension

• EU-Digital Identity Wallets official website:
  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/What+is+the+wallet

  
  

🕊️ A Dedication to the Unfree

I want to dedicate this episode to people who are screaming for freedom, but due to different circumstances, they aren’t able to achieve it in the short term. I want to say I am with you, keep working hard on your dreams to support those you love.