The Epic of Bitcoin with Allen Farrington

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to the Bitcoin 2021 Conference, Bitcoin Magazine Podcast host Christian Keroles sat down with keynote speaker and incredible Bitcoin thinker for one of his very first podcasts appearances. This interview covers two of Allen's seminal works and why Farrington prefers to investigate Bitcoin’s cultural and literature alignments over the typical framing of economics, trading and technology. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First Keroles and Farrington dive into his article</span> <a href= "https://allenfarrington.medium.com/the-capital-strip-mine-ec627e9fe40a"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Capital Stripmine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The article is a ~30 minute read and it dives into why the current fiat system is effectively strip mining the US and current financial system of its resources. He compares what is going on in capital markets to the strip mining techniques that have become popular in modern day. Allen laments that because of fiat money’s poor incentives, civilization has taken on a growth at all cost mentality and have thrown away all regard for long term thinking and preservation. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second he get into Allen’s blockbuster article</span> <a href= "https://allenfarrington.medium.com/bitcoin-is-venice-bitcoin-is-741cc7d22e9"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Bitcoin is Venice, Bitcoin Is</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In this article Farrington, educates the reader about the anomaly that is Venice Italy at is peak. Venice was a magical mixture of a sound money, capitalistic, and free society when many of its neighbors where still operating in futility. Venice in contrast to other large cities was a bastion for the arts, wealth, and thought. Farrington details how Bitcoin’s sounds and fair monetary properties provide a framework for humanity to return back to Venice esc conditions and hopefully prosperity. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lastly Keroles and Far