Bitcoin and The American Dream with CJ Wilson & Amanda Cavaleri - WBD437

Location: Washington D.C.
Date: Sunday 5th December
Project: Bitcoin Today Coalition
Role: Leadership & Advisory Board


Studies have shown that education improves decision-making
ability, that’s not a great surprise. The real breakthrough in
the latter part of the 20th century was the identification that
educational efforts in adults are best directed at correcting for
cognitive bias: our subconscious subjective version of reality
that can lead us to making irrational decisions.


This issue is widely apparent in the modern world dominated by
disruptive technology seeking to undo long established but
ineffective human developed systems. That such systems are
controlled by power structures dominated by an older generation
makes this issue more acute.


This is perhaps the greatest risk for Bitcoin: blind or willful
ignorance leads to irrational decision making at the level of the
state. That is where organisations such as the ‘Bitcoin Today
Coalition’ come in. It is an interest group representing Bitcoin
holders and the wider Bitcoin industry. One of its core aims is
to increase Bitcoin literacy within America’s legislative and
regulatory bodies. 


In this interview, I talk to 2 leaders of the Bitcoin Today
Coalition: CJ Wilson and Amanda Cavaleri. We discuss educating
the political class on Bitcoin and how it can make a strong
America through strengthening energy grids, revitalizing rural
economies, and giving those on the bottom economic rung equal
access to a financial system.