Piriya Sambandaraksa is the managing director of Chaloke.com (a trading and investment education company), producer of Bitcoin Talk, founder & CEO of Right Shift, founder & CEO of Bitcoin Legacy, organizer of the Thailand Bitcoin Conference, and translator of multiple Bitcoin books.

We talk about translating The Fiat Standard and other books into Thai, why Bitcoin appeals to Thai people, the relative strength of the Thai bhat compared to the Japanese yen, the low level of trust in Thai government, Piriya's background as a trader and YouTube educator, the problem of bitcoiners only making content for other bitcoiners, strategy and tactics for reaching non-bitcoiners, the Thailand Bitcoin Conference, Piriya's experience with diet experimentation and incredibly positive results with low-carb and carnivore diets, the fallacy of the local circular economy, and the need for price to go up much further for us to get serious adoption and usage.

Links:

* Piriya’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/piriya

* Piriya’s Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1prya33fnqerq0fljwjtp77ehtu7jlsjt5ydhwveuwmqdsdm6k8esk42xcv

* Right Shift’s website: https://rightshift.to/

* Thailand Bitcoin Conference: https://www.thailandbitcoinconference.com/

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Use discount code BEYOND20 for 20% off tickets to Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong this May 9-10.

John Riggins is Head of Operations, Asia Pacific for BTC Media (Bitcoin Magazine). In this episode we talk about his Bitcoin in Asia podcast, which ran from 2019-2020, his experience with Bitcoin Magazine in China from 2016, especially with the mining boom and subsequent ban (and less-known backstory), the origins and editorial policy of Bitcoin Magazine, the upcoming Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong, whether bitcoin as a money vs. bitcoin as a platform is the next big debate in bitcoin, why he's optimistic about bitcoin regulation in China and especially in Hong Kong, other developments throughout Asia, and finally, whether Asia could see the next El Salvador.

Links:

* John Riggins’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DistRiggs

* Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/

* Bitcoin Asia conference: https://bitcoin2024.b.tc/asia

* “A $200M Mining Heist and a Life Sentence”: https://blocksbridge.substack.com/p/mining-heist-life-sentence

* South China Morning Post article: https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3232044/crypto-mining-chinese-official-given-life-prison-scheme-involving-bribes-and-support-cryptocurrency

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Bitcoin Alive is on March 23 in Sydney! Use discount code BEYONDTHEPRICE for 10% off tickets.

Chris Pavlesic is a co-organizer of Bitcoin Alive, founder of Coinstop, country manager for Bitrefill, and adviser at The Bitcoin Adviser. We talk about organizing Australia’s first Bitcoin-only conference, stories from last year, founding a Bitcoin company and doing things “the Bitcoin way”, self-custody cultures, regulatory environment, inheritance planning, and how Chris hasn’t checked the price of bitcoin in over 2 years!

Links:

* Chris Pavlesic’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lungdoge

* Bitcoin Alive website: https://bitcoinalive.io/

* Bitcoin Alive Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive

* Bitcoin Bush Bash: https://bitcoinbushbash.info/

* Bitcoin Sydney: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/bitcoin_sydney/

* The Bitcoin Adviser: https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/

* Coinstop: https://coinstop.io/

* Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/

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Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) is a bitcoin educational non-profit that started in El Salvador but is quickly spreading throughout the world with its open-source curriculum. Their growth in the El Salvador school system has been explosive and they offer a model that anyone in the world can replicate so I was really excited to talk with them, especially as you may remember Teruko a few weeks ago mentioned she's helping translate their curriculum into Japanese and will be launching a Japanese podcast based on it.

My guests are John Dennehy, founder and executive director, and Adam Nili, COO. We talk about John's background as a journalist and protester, launching a bitcoin educational organization after El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender, how adoption in El Salvador is going and what lessons it offers other communities and countries, how My First Bitcoin has modeled their organization after bitcoin in the sense of having rules not rulers, so that anyone can join what they're doing, and much more. This conversation pumped me up so I hope it has the same effect on you.

Links:

* Mi Primer Bitcoin website: https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/my-first-bitcoin/

* Mi Primer Bitcoin Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyfirstBitcoin_

* Mi Primer Bitcoin Nostr: https://njump.me/npub17cyatz6z2dzcw6xehtcm9z45m76lde5smxdmyasvs00r4pqv863qrs4ml3

* John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdennehy_writes

* Adam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/adam_nili

* John’s Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1gaxapm9t9damh6q2lpc04ptcyeh0ysfdfzzs997agu3ae80ftrns7t985l

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Coinos is the easiest way I’ve seen for businesses to start accepting bitcoin as a payment method. The interface is super simple as they abstract away a lot of the complexity that merchants don’t want to deal with at the beginning. They even utilize Liquid in addition to Lightning.

Naturally, we talk about the state of merchant adoption of Bitcoin but we also discuss Bitcoin scaling solutions like Lightning and Liquid and more philosophical questions like the tension between building totally self-sovereign Bitcoin tools that are true to the ethos but hard to use vs. building easy-to-use tools that make some compromises in terms of custody, as well as whether we want gradual change or overnight revolution, whether open source is a viable business model, and whether to stay anonymous as a Bitcoiner or not.

Lots of food for thought!

My Coinos page: https://coinos.io/beyondtheprice

Links

* Coinos: https://coinos.io/

* Adam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamsoltys

* Cole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/coinoswallet

* BTC Map: https://btcmap.org/

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Dominik Weil is co-founder of BitcoinVN, a cryptocurrency exchange in Vietnam, and Albert Buu is founder & CEO of Neutronpay, a payment service that uses the Lightning Network to offer cheap, instant remittances and other types of payments. We talk about why they chose to work in Vietnam, what it means when people say that Vietnam has the highest rate of bitcoin adoption in the world, what the reality on the ground is there, and what Bitcoin can offer a country hard-hit by war throughout history.

Links

* Albert Buu’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/subnetmask

* Dominik Weil’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DominikWeil

* Neutronpay website: https://neutronpay.com/

* BitcoinVN website: https://bitcoinvn.io/

* Lightningcon/Beyond Lightning: https://twitter.com/LightningconVN

* Bitcoin Beach Vietnam: https://twitter.com/BitcoinBeachVN

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Andy and Dash are the organizers of Tokyo Citadel, a Tokyo-based English-speaking meetup group (and podcast). I’ve enjoyed getting to know them through the events and Telegram group, and am excited to say I’ll also be joining their podcast once a month.

In this episode, we talk about how they ended up in Japan for so long, how they got into Bitcoin and whether they would have had they not been in Japan, the reality of living and working in Japan vs the perception from overseas, how their various projects came about and what they hope to build in terms of a so-called Tokyo citadel, and the current state of Bitcoin adoption in Japan.

If you’re in Tokyo, the next meetup is tomorrow. For more Bitcoin meetups and conferences in Asia, check out the calendar on my Substack.

Links:

* Tokyo Citadel’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoCitadel

* Tokyo Citadel’s website: https://tokyocitadel.com/

* Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyo-citadel-meetup-group/

* Telegram: https://t.me/+PXysoJ18WGdmMThl

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Happy new year and welcome to an independent Beyond The Price! As I explain in the intro, I’ve left CoinPost but I’ll still be releasing podcast episodes weekly, now from Substack (along with written articles - frequency TBD).

If you’re an early Substack subscriber and didn’t even know I was doing a podcast, I hope you like it. My focus is Bitcoin in Asia (adoption, not speculation) but the guests are all over the world. Some macroeconomics too.

If you’re a podcast listener, I hope you like to read too. Check out my early explainers of Bitcoin and look forward to more free-form pieces expanding on podcast topics.

My first guest of the year is a fitting one, the first Japanese Bitcoiner I was aware of, Teruko Neriki. She translated The Bitcoin Standard (a formative book for me) into Japanese and now works for Fulgur Ventures, a Bitcoin VC company. We talk about her Bitcoin story, translation work, and the Japan scene, as well as the educational projects she’s involved in and launching (linked below).

Links:

* Teruko’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerukoNeriki

* Fulgure Ventures: https://fulgur.ventures/

* The Bitcoin Standard: https://saifedean.com/tbs

* Lost in Bitcoin: https://lostinbitcoin.jp/

* My First Bitcoin: https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/my-first-bitcoin/

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