Nathan Day: Overlanding, Self Sovereign Identity & Bitcoin Adoption
“We asked ourselves: if we were terminally ill and had two years to live, what would we do? The answer was go and travel the world in a truck. So we built one.”
Today’s guest on the podcast is Nathan Day.
Nathan is a former global IT systems optimizer who gained a degree of financial freedom after selling his business a few years ago. Consequently, this led him and his wife to ask themselves the question:
“If we were terminally ill and had two years to live, what would we do?”
The answer came in the form of a custom-built, fully equipped overland and off-road truck, which their family has been using as a home away from home ever since.
In this conversation, we discuss various topics related to Bitcoin, including the installation of miners in their truck, their experiences living self-sovereign lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential of decentralized networks like Nostr to revolutionize digital identity.
We also explore the connections between time, entropy, and Bitcoin, and discuss the current state of Bitcoin adoption and infrastructure globally. If you’re a Bitcoiner, you’ll probably know Nathan better as the co-founder of BTC Map, the indispensable app for finding merchants who accept Bitcoin. Nathan shares some fascinating insights into merchant adoption around the globe—arguably one of the best metrics for measuring the success of decentralized money.
Enjoy the conversation.