Bitkiwi Dan is one of the co-founders of the BitKiwi meetup events in New Zealand.
We canvas a range of topics from government decision-making and how political neutrality works in the public sector to what it might take to form a new Bitcoin political party in New Zealand.
Dan is also a Chartered Accountant and we discuss the opportunity around businesses wanting to hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet, integrating with legacy banks, and how the bitcoin circular economy could develop.
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Bitkiwi on X - https://x.com/Bitkiwi1
Bitkiwi Dan on X - https://x.com/satstothemoon
NZ Invents Inflation Target : https://www.reuters.com/markets/mouse-that-roared-new-zealand-worlds-2-inflation-target-2023-01-30/
Don Brash and Rodney Hide Podcast - https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/rodney-hide-and-don-brash-in-conversation
Long March through the Institutions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institutions
MMP Voting System - https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features/what-is-the-mmp-voting-system/
IRD guidance on crypto - https://www.ird.govt.nz/crypto-currency
JAN3's Global Bitcoin Mission with Samson Mow and Prince Filip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7a2n6VMH4
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand - https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/
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I talk with James Viggiano about recent comments made by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Not soon after we spoke, James shared a clip that went viral of the governor talking frankly about the exorbitant privilege of money printing that the central banks and governments have. James and I talk about some of the game theory from the perspective of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to defend the Kiwi Dollar and their attempts to talk down inflation, and shift the narrative even as the cost of living crisis continues. We also talk about the opportunity for what New Zealand could look like on a Bitcoin standard and how that could interface with the legacy financial system.
I talk with Kevin Whitmore from Callaghan Innovation. We discuss payment innovations with the Lightning network, Bitcoin, Nostr, and more. I am encouraged to see an interest in Bitcoin technology from the New Zealand Government. I welcome Callaghan’s approach of objectively looking at everything that comes their way and making judgements based on first principles. Ultimately having a vehicle like Kevin’s work at Callaghan Innovation could be one of the ways New Zealand becomes a first mover in adopting Bitcoin. I am quietly encouraged to see the label "Web3" reclaimed by genuinely decentralised tech such as Nostr, Lightning Zaps, and Fedi.
Te Kahukura Boynton is a young wāhine studying law and running the blog and podcast Māori Millionaire, documenting the journey of learning about financial independence and empowerment for Māori.
Rabble is a software developer and hacker based in Wellington, New Zealand. Rabble was lead engineer at Odeo, where he hired Jack Dorsey into the company, which would later pivot into becoming Twitter. Since then he has been focussed on building impactful projects and social media with the open & decentralised vision that Twitter originally had in its early years but which was eventually lost. Rabble has created the Nostr client Nos.social, and is involved with Ahau.io, a Māori community tool built on Nostr’s predecessor protocol, Secure Scuttlebutt.