Rahim Taghizadegan: Bitcoin Citadels, Geopolitics & CBDCs
“A dystopia always has a different side: a utopian one. The question is, is it possible to have a Bitcoin utopia while the world is dystopian? So that’s a challenge to Bitcoiners. And I think it’s a great challenge. It challenges you to think about what hyperbitcoinization may mean and what it looks like.”
This week on the podcast I have for you a very interesting conversation I had at BTC Prague with the Free Cities Foundation’s chief economist Rahim Taghizadegan.
Rahim is an Austrian economist who is actually from Austria, which was a first for me, but he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor, and entrepreneur who has written more than a dozen books.
In this conversation, we begin by investigating the historical significance of citadels and in particular their modern-day incarnation as the Bitcoin citadel meme. From there we take a tour through many topics such as military technology, geopolitics, government inefficiencies, CBDCs, and the collapse of the fiat system.
All in all, I think that the whole discussion can be summed up quite nicely by Rahim’s statement ‘How not to live in a dystopian world’.
Enjoy the conversation.