093 - Nathan Day: Overlanding, Self Sovereign Identity & Bitcoin Adoption
Free Cities Podcast - A podcast by Timothy Allen - Vineri
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Self Sovereignty, Overlanding, Landsteading, Bitcoin Adoption, Digital Identity, BTC Map, Flag Theory, Freedom. Timothy Allen talks with Nathan Day. Nathan is a former global IT systems optimiser who managed to gain a degree of financial freedom after he sold his business a few years ago. Consequentially, this lead to him and his wife to ask themselves the question: “If we were terminally ill and had 2 years to live, what would we do?” The answer came in the form of a custom built, fully pimped out overland & off-road truck which their family has been using as a home 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 that accept bitcoin. Nathan shares some fascinating insights into merchant adoption around the globe, arguably one of the best metrics for measuring the success of the decentralised money. Enjoy the conversation. Free Cities Podcast on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/xudG4tsYH5TimGLfAmqn Contact the podcast: [email protected] Free Cities Telegram Community: https://t.me/+im6c6r4jQkUzMjU0 LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME CONFERENCE: https://libertyinourlifetime.org/ Make a small weekly donation to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/FreeCitiesPodcast/ TIMESTAMPS (0:30) Introduction (4:40) Overland truck and Bitcoin mining setup (12:51) Nathan's background & ensuing self-sovereign lifestyle (18:47) Travel experiences and COVID-19 impact (33:52) Bitcoin, adoption and BTC Map (40:20) Bitcoin is time (50:49) Is BTC adoption increasing? (54:26) Where are the most interesting clusters of BTC adoption? (1:01:32) Nostr and decentralised identity TWITTER: Nathan Day: https://x.com/nathan_day BTC Map: https://x.com/BTCMap Timothy Allen: https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen Free Cities Foundation: https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound OTHER LINKS: BTC Map: https://btcmap.org/ Free Cities Foundation: https://free-cities.org/
