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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