BITCOIN RAILS #49: The "Cultural Fork" of Bitcoin | with @nottjmiller 🔗 YOUTUBE: youtu.be/xeChoOC8mEw 🌿 SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/1SX… I was introduced to Silicon Valley's @nottjmiller a little over a year ago while he was brainstorming how we could potentially inscribe a 4-megger comedy video through @MARA Slipstream (shout out to @ordinalsbot for the idea). A Bitcoiner since 2018, TJ saw the potential of Ordinals to orange-pill a whole new kind of Bitcoiner — the kind that may realistically be intimidated by (or straight up uninterested in) ivory-tower technical or economic topics. "I talk about cultural adoption and how do we bring Bitcoin into the cultural forefront." Letting me into "his world" for this interview, TJ and I recorded this chat straight from @StandComedyClub before his Bitcoin-focused set during @chainlink New York blockchain week [full set forthcoming in the comments]. Shout out to @cryptokelley @MelrosePR @ValidationCloud and @BitwireFeed for organizing the event. It was a banger 🔥 In this episode, TJ and I jam about: - How TJ was orange-pilled by the Winklevoss twins @cameron @tyler (+ the Michigan twins of course!) - Why TJ's wife, Kate, is a hardcore Bitcoin maxi... despite TJ loving Ethereum and @DOGE on the side - How comedy could orange pill the world - And as usual we end with... @brockpierce. IYKYK. For good measure, we also clear the air on @peterktodd [probably not] being Satoshi. Unsurprisingly, we had an absolute blast and lots of laughs filming this episode. A nice little left turn from my usual technical schtick + some fun personal stories shared from both of our sides. Bitcoin Rails is powered by: — Best In Slot (@bestinslotxyz) - the leading API for Ordinals and BRC-20 data aggregation and indexing. — Spark (@lightspark) - a statechains implementation advancing Bitcoin-powered payments. — Citrea (@citrea_xyz) - a leading Bitcoin rollup technology and BitVM alliance contributor. TIMESTAMPS 📌 00:00 Intro 04:46 Trading and Crypto Misconceptions 08:47 Bitcoin and Early Adopters 17:13 Ethereum and Blockchain Exploration 38:55 NFTs and Artistic Ventures 40:46 The First NFT Comedy Special 41:31 The FTX Collapse and Its Impact 47:28 Ordinals and Bitcoin Utility 51:41 The Ordinals Cultural Fork 53:20 Cultural Adoption of Bitcoin 01:09:06 Bitcoin Comedy and Community