Bitcoins and Gravy Episode #35 SolarCoin and South Korea

On today’s show I interview Nick Gogerty, co-developer and author of the SolarCoin white paper. Nick talks to us about everything under the Sun including Black Swans, Normal Accidents, Warren Buffet’s Billion dollar Solar and Wind investments, and Nick’s own book, The Nature of Value. Nick also tells us how SolarCoin works to incentivize Solar Energy use and production and how SolarCoin is one of the few altcoins in existence that has genuine Economic Utility.

I also interview Paul Bugge, an American teaching English in Seoul, Korea. Paul gives us a look at how the Bitcoin movement is beginning to take off in South Korea and how it’s definitely worth a visit – especially for the great food!

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CREDITS:

Nick Gogerty
SolarCoin.org

TheNatureOfValue.com
The Nature of Value – by Nick Gogerty

“In the great tradition of Charlie Munger’s ‘worldly wisdom,’ Nick Gogerty delivers a multidisciplinary approach to finding investment value. Through brilliant graphics and a unique lens, he educates the reader on how to discern investment opportunities that go well beyond currently reported financial results to gain insights into how value shifts over time. Any investor who feels the ‘value investing’ paradigm is lacking in its ability to navigate our increasingly complex world will benefit from the tools Gogerty offers.”
—Paul Johnson, Columbia Business School
Normal Accidents – by Charles Perrow

The Black Swan - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Paul Bugge
[email protected]

Bitcoins Blues
Lyrics and Music by John Barrett
2014, RJM Publishing [BMI]

*While I've written a good number of Blues songs in my time, The Bitcoin Blues in an unconventional take on the Blues. You won't hear Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson or Eric Clapton influences in this song, but hopefully the reality of my Bitcoin pain and Bitcoin Blues will somehow shine - or otherwise meander through.

The Bitcoin Blues

Wasted all my time back in ’09
I should have been mining blocks
Now all I’ve gotz a Dogecoin rig
And holes in my Alpaca socks

I got them low down Bitcoin Blues I’m cryin
Hear the low down Bitcoin news I ain’t lying to you
Low down Bitcoin Blues I’m dyin honey
Low down Bitcoin Blues

BTC convention came
To my hometown at last
I had to sell my only bitcoin
Just to buy a 2 day pass

I got them low down Bitcoin Blues I’m cryin
Hear the low down Bitcoin news I ain’t lying to you
Low down Bitcoin Blues I’m dyin honey
Low down Bitcoin Blues

Took a trip to China . . . town
For Beef chow mein to go
Fortune cookie told me
“We no taking bitcoin anymore”

I got them low down Bitcoin Blues I’m cryin
Hear the low down Bitcoin news I ain’t lying to you
Low down Bitcoin Blues I’m dyin honey
Low down Bitcoin Blues

Went up town to see my CPA
For some advice
He told me death and taxes son
And then just roll Satoshi Dice.

I got them low down Bitcoin Blues I’m cryin
Hear the low down Bitcoin news I ain’t lying to you
Low down Bitcoin Blues I’m dyin honey
Low down Bitcoin Blues.

Bitcoin Blues was Recorded live at the Laarzen Huis, Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands January 11, 2014. Many thanks to Jan and Mariëlle for the excellent voedsel!
; )

Special thanks to Alex Munõz Guijarro for his excellent pedal steel playing on many Episodes of Bitcoins and Gravy.

Interviews for this episode were edited and produced by John Barrett at The Tree House Studio - East Nashville, Tennessee.

Theme song “Gravy” by the band, Eleanor Roosevelt with Elijah “Lij” Shaw on fiddle.

And a big thank you to my sponsor The Tennessee Bitcoin Alliance:
TennesseeBitcoin.org

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