About this episode

Does money need to be just? Or is it just a tool of man? Yan Pritzker joins this episode with host Samuel McCulloch to discuss growing up in the Soviet Union, Bitcoin as freedom, and how it can be used as a get out of "troubled" country hedge.

Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin, the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated daily, weekly, and monthly savings plan. Yan is the former co-founder and CTO at Reverb, which was sold to Etsy for $275M.

Yan's Links

Homepage | Linkedin | Crunchbase

Swan Bitcoin

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What to listen for

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• Why Yan’s experiences of growing up in the Soviet Union influenced his thinking around Bitcoin and how he came into the space.
  
• Why we need a society where people have freedom with their money and without capital controls.
  
• Why there are always tradeoffs between freedom and surveillance in any society.
  
• What the difference is between people who prefer safety over freedom and people who prefer freedom over safety; and why this matters now more than ever.
  
• Why we need to look beyond the US narrative around ‘Axis of Evil’ countries and our empire perspective to understand the causes of terrorism.
  
• Why money and US financial systems are at the root of most of the conflicts in the world.
  
• Why the US dollar system may be broken and why Bitcoin is a hedge against this future outcome.
  
• Why the lack of short-term volatility is a tradeoff with systemic instability and why volatility always comes back in the long-term.
  
• Why centralized systems create more opportunities for criminals to steal your data because the information is fully public and easily hacked.
  
• Why Yan thinks perfect privacy does not exist and is impossible to achieve if you interact with any centralized system.
  
• Why everyone should be saving a little Bitcoin every month nd how SwanBitcoin helps you do this.
  

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