When the tech bubble burst in California, there was no sticking around. Next stop: Hong Kong — couch-crashing when the bubble hit there too — then a train to Shanghai with one suitcase to go all-in on an intensive Mandarin program at Fudan University. #TechBubble #HongKong #Shanghai #reDeFined #Bitcoin Watch…
Years of coding in C++ before realizing the passion wasn't building technology — it was talking about it. 💬 The path from software developer to marketing executive, and how that shift eventually led to Bitcoin. #reDeFined #Bitcoin #CareerJourney Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our…
In this episode, Jeremy sits down with Gabriel Kurman and Adrian Eidelman, co-founders of Rootstock, to discuss why they built a Bitcoin-native smart contract layer instead of launching a separate blockchain. Gabriel and Adrian share how growing up in Argentina amid hyperinflation and capital controls shaped their conviction that the…
It's voluntary — for now. 🇮🇪 Ireland's rollout of a digital ID and wallet system, the "protect the children" justification behind it, and the concern that it connects identity verification directly to control over your money. #DigitalID #Bitcoin #reDeFined #Privacy Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥…
Faster. Easier. All on your phone. 📱 Why a "digital shekel" sold as convenience could be the first step toward the kind of social credit system seen in China and Russia. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalCurrency Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's…
Same technology, sold two ways: a crypto token to consumers, and a white-label CBDC platform to central banks. 🤨 The case for questioning calling Ripple's XRP "freedom money" when it's this closely tied to the institutions it's supposed to be an alternative to. #Bitcoin #Ripple #CBDC #reDeFined Watch the full…
How centralized systems already gate access to the internet, travel, and services based on personal information — and why the convenience pitch doesn't add up. #Bitcoin #Privacy #reDeFined #DigitalID Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X : https://hubs.la/Q04q-l7c0 Follow the Podcast…
What felt too early, too fast got refused — and there was a price to pay for it. 💭 How that experience with bodily autonomy sparked the question of who else might come for private property next. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥…
From corporate CMO to speaking on Bitcoin and CBDC policy in El Salvador. 🌎 The path — and the talk that led to this episode. #Bitcoin #ElSalvador #reDeFined #CBDC Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X : https://hubs.la/Q04q-r3t0 Follow the Podcast…
Same rules as fiat. Same issuers. But with a much stricter enforcement mechanism attached. 🔍 What curiosity about CBDCs revealed once the digging started into what central banks are actually building. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X…
Dismissed as a fad — for over a decade. 🔄 Watching the ICO era from the sidelines, staying skeptical of "get rich quick" schemes, and why Bitcoin kept resurfacing anyway. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X :…
Authoritarianism feels like someone else's problem — until it isn't. 🌍 Why it often takes something like Canada's trucker protests for people in mature markets to recognize monetary oppression as their own issue. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy…
Bitcoin was just "crypto-adjacent" in Silicon Valley — until Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. 🏦 The moment even tech insiders realized the financial system they trusted was more fragile than they thought. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X…
Surrounded by the smartest tech people around, and none of them could explain Bitcoin. 🤔 The frustrating search for someone who could actually answer questions about sound money. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialEducation Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X : https://hubs.la/Q04q-q0S0 Follow…
Bitcoin got ignored for a decade. Then COVID changed everything. 💡 The moment hard questions about money, privacy, and where "convenience" turns into control started. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X : https://hubs.la/Q04q-vzZ0 Follow the Podcast Twitter:…
"How did you, sitting in Asia at a traditional bank, become a closet cypherpunk?" It traces back to 2008 — watching markets crash, then rip back to all-time highs by 2010 — and one YouTube channel, that sent it all down the rabbit hole. #Bitcoin #Cypherpunk #reDeFined #TradFi #BitcoinTreasury Watch…
"I kind of felt the state control over me in a very significant way." The personal cost of COVID-era mandates — and the social pressure that came with choosing differently. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #Freedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X :…
"You build in the bear. Most people end up buying the bull." Russ Jacobsen (COO, Moon Inc.) on why this bear market is exactly when Bitcoin treasury companies should be adding Bitcoin. New episode of Redefined 🎙️ https://hubs.la/Q04sD3W50
"That's a big alarm bell for me." 🚨 What digging into the common denominators between central banks experimenting with CBDCs around the world turns up — including the role of the BIS, the IMF, and the ECB's rollout across the EU. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #CentralBanks Watch the full conversation on…
Jeremy sits down with Russ Jacobsen, COO of Moon Inc., a Bitcoin treasury company listed in Hong Kong (HKEX: 1723). Russ spent nearly two decades in traditional finance across Hong Kong and Shanghai — all while secretly mining Bitcoin on the side. Now he's building one of Asia's Bitcoin treasury…
No proud Western country wants to say "we're doing what Nigeria is doing." 🌍 That reluctance doesn't change what's actually being built — and citizens and bankers alike would push back if they knew. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #GlobalPolicy Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our…
Imagine money with an expiry date. Or a radius on where you're allowed to spend it. 🕹️ A walkthrough of the features some central banks are building into CBDCs, and why it's being called a very authoritarian tool in supposedly democratic hands. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalCurrency #FinancialFreedom Watch the full…
Digital money sounds like it should be Bitcoin-like. 🤔 A breakdown of why what Europe and other mature markets are actually building resembles the CBDC models used by China, Russia, and Nigeria — not an open, permissionless network. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalCurrency Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube…
Monetary policy can shift toward authoritarian control fast — in any market, mature or not. 🧡 Why Bitcoin is less an "alternative" to fiat and more its long-overdue improvement. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X :…
