Isaac M. Morehouse has founded Praxis, a job-seeking alternative for college-aged young adults, and Crash, a platform to host a portfolio of job skills. He joins CoinSpice to talk about his early journey into crypto, the innovative tech, the problems holding it back, and how to use an entrepreneur's mindset to spur adoption. https://twitter.com/isaacmorehouse https://crash.co/ https://discoverpraxis.com/ https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062388414/alchemy/ 1:00 Isaac’s Entrepreneurial Bio 5:40 How He Got Into Bitcoin 7:24 Coinbase was easiest onramp in early days 9:35 Accepting Bitcoin as a Business 11:10 High Price, but Low Use 12:40 Alchemy by Rory Sutherland 13:10 Costly Signals 16:05 Rationalist Solutions Cause Problems 18:30 Planners vs. Feelers 19:10 London Black Cabs and Costly Signals 22:00 Inefficient Blockchains? 24:00 Trustless System? 26:45 The Point of Bitcoin 27:00 Branding 32:00 Cultural Marxism in Bitcoin 33:25 Fake Social Media 36:00 Sutherland’s 4 S’s 39:30 What Happened to Bitcoin’s UX 42:00 Startup Thinking in Crypto 43:40 BitPay’s Skin in the Game 47:00 Proof of Work in his Business Experience 50:00 Yoga & Crypto Website: https://coinspice.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/coinspicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoinSpice Tips: https://tipbitcoin.cash/tip/coinspice Store: https://store.coinspice.io/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coinspice_memes ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn87aIJEUfA

TL;DR: Economist Max Gulker and his brilliant essay is the subject of our interview. He writes at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), and he’s has come up with a theory as to how to think about Bitcoin and its development. It’s a pretty original idea, and involves famed reformer Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformation, and Gutenberg (Gulker took inspiration from the incredible book, Brand Luther by Andrew Pettegree). https://coinspice.io/news/podcast-what-martin-luther-the-protestant-reformation-and-gutenberg-can-teach-bitcoiners TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Max Gulker, PhD 03:55 AIER 05:40 Edward Stringham, Jeffrey Tucker 08:10 Inspiration, Brand Luther 12:05 Who was Martin Luther? 13:15 Gutenberg and the printing press — the next cool thing 14:40 The printing press bubble 17:40 The catalyst 21:25 Different use case: best selling author, cosmetics 25:20 Technological use is not obvious 26:30 Bitcoin as an evolutionary learning process 28:40 The internet didn’t just fall from the sky, neither did Bitcoin 30:30 Reformation parallels to Bitcoin forks 31:50 BTC maximalists are central planners, protectionists; network effect fallacy 34:00 Shouting at cryptocurrencies is futile in a free society 35:00 Bitcoin is just at its start, historically 36:05 Mass extinction events sober thoughts of inevitability 39:20 Tsunami movement or small cracks? 40:25 Medium of exchange versus digital gold ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dGJpv9Kok