Podcasts: BCB087_MATT HILL: Taking Back Digital Sovereignty 🔗 2 years ago
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- Category: Podcasts | Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
- Author(s): Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
- Published: 8th December 2022 03:30
Matt Hill, CEO of Start9 Labs, does a deep dive into what’s gone wrong in the digital age, why the conventional computing model is broken, and what needs to be done to fix it.
WE COVER:
- Opting out of the 3rd party computing paradigm
- What’s wrong with today’s internetÂ
- Bitcoin as the bedrock of digital freedom & privacy
- What’s being built at Start9 Labs w/ Embassy and why it’s important
- Running your own personal server
- The importance of Bitcoin nodes
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