Golden future: Interview with Florian Bruce-Boye

“As revolutionary as the refrigerator was for storing food, Bitcoin is for storing money.”

Portrait of Florian

I am Florian, 26 years old and an entrepreneur. I studied physics and, together with my business partner Friedemann, run the Proaktiv Podcast. I've been following Bitcoin for almost ten years, but it took me a very long time to really understand it. In the last two years, I've shared my thoughts about Bitcoin more and more often and plan to invest even more time here in the future.

My links

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Book: Goldene Zukunft

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Questions & answers

Florian, let's jump right in: Could Bitcoin be our “golden future”? Why do you think that?

Energy is the fundamental currency of the universe, and money is the energy of a civilization. Just as every process in the universe requires energy, almost every aspect of our civilization requires money or work time. The universe functions according to clear, stable rules, such as the law of conservation of energy. Once we understand these rules, we can build on them to develop systems and technologies — be they bridges, steam engines, or computers. These achievements are based on the reliability of these energy laws. Our society also needs a stable and reliable monetary system. Bitcoin could offer this stability and give us a “golden future.”

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Would you say that our current monetary systems are the cause of many social problems?

The importance of money in a society is often underestimated. Aside from love and health, money permeates almost every aspect of our civilization. When our monetary system has weaknesses, they affect almost all areas, even though the causes are often difficult to identify. For this reason, other factors are often mistakenly blamed for problems that actually lie in the monetary system.

Our current monetary system, for example, is responsible for many problems attributed to capitalism. It is not capitalism itself, but faulty capital that is causing the problems. In my book “Goldene Zukunft” I show how many of the problems recognized today — the growing gap between rich and poor, the priceless of housing and rising prices — only occurred after the gold standard was abolished. Capitalism remained the same, but money changed — from disciplined, gold-backed money to unbacked money.

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You always have a very positive tone. How do you manage to keep the balance when you have to understand the negative effects of an unstable monetary system in order to better understand the value of Bitcoin?

A problem is only really a problem if there is no solution to it. Since I believe in a solution, it is easy for me to remain optimistic. I also think that the positive effects of Bitcoin will not only be felt once the current monetary system has been replaced. The very establishment of Bitcoin as a global store of value could result in more monetary discipline and positive changes in the world.

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In your last interview, we talked a lot about Bitcoin as a solution-oriented concept by engineers. How would you bring Bitcoin closer to people who don't have a technological background?

Money is stored life energy or time and must be stored securely. If you want to store air in a bottle, the bottle should have appropriate properties to store this air properly. For example, it should be airtight and robust.

If you want to store energy in a battery, it should have the appropriate properties to store energy, such as high capacity and low energy loss over time.

And if you want to store food, a refrigerator is better than a simple wooden box because it is cool, dry and airtight. Here, too, it has the best properties for storing food over time.

Money also needs a suitable “container” to preserve its value for the future. Bitcoin, similar to the refrigerator for food storage, offers the best properties for storing money — no inflation, mobility, independence, and more.
As revolutionary as the refrigerator was for storing food, Bitcoin is for storing money.

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How can people differentiate between a great future tool and a crypto scam?

Bitcoin, not crypto — Bitcoin is a tool for the future that meets all important criteria. Most other cryptocurrencies don't even meet basic requirements such as independence and uncontrollability.


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You're known for great metaphors and comparisons that make it easier to understand Bitcoin. Do you have a new thought about Bitcoin that you haven't shared yet?‍

I have lots of thoughts I haven't shared yet! 



Are you familiar with the saying “All roads lead to Rome”?
During my studies on Bitcoin, I noticed that all roads lead to Bitcoin. If you think about an ideal store of value from different perspectives, everything leads to Bitcoin:


• If you look at the history of money, you deduce from countless examples that there should be money that cannot be inflated.
• As an engineer, you think about money, you deduce that there should be money that follows the law of conservation of energy and, in the best case, has a constant entropy (does not spoil over time).
  
• When you look at the history of politics, you deduct that it is best to have money that cannot be controlled by politicians.
• If you're geopolitically concerned about inflation, wars, and instability, you want money that is global and independent.
• If you're looking at it from a biological perspective, you want money that is anti-fragile and adaptive.
• If you are thinking about a store of value from an ethical point of view, you would want it to be accessible, not treat anyone unfairly, give everyone the same ownership rights and be transparent and secure at the same time.
• When you look at money from a developer perspective, you want it as an open protocol like the Internet and not as a closed application.

Bitcoin meets all of these points.

→ All roads and all perspectives lead to Bitcoin.


Who is your new book aimed at?

1. People who want to understand Bitcoin and are still at the beginning of their journey.

2. People who are already invested in Bitcoin and want to feel confirmed in their decision, while at the same time seeking new explanations to better explain Bitcoin to others.

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In addition to your new book, there is another project that you will present soon. Would you like to tell us more about it?

I'm planning to start a podcast about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is an incredibly extensive topic. Through my intensive study of this, I have reunderstood many subject areas — from politics and economics to ethics, history and even physics. In this podcast, I want to dive deep into all of these different areas. I invite you to look at Bitcoin through different lenses to better understand both Bitcoin and the world. The podcast starts in Q4. On derbitcoinpodcast.de, you can sign up to be notified as soon as it appears.

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What could be a hypothetical next evolutionary step of money after Bitcoin?

What was the next evolutionary step after the bike? What was the next evolutionary step after the Internet? There were always small, iterative improvements, but these inventions had the ideal characteristics for their respective task. The situation is similar with Bitcoin. Bitcoin has the ideal properties of a store of value. It's hard to say what's next, but thinking about it feels like speculating about the Internet's successor in 1995.

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