The Stoics Figured Out Bitcoin 2,000 Years Before Satoshi | Connor Dolan | #269

Nobody told Connor Dolan that the Stoics figured out Bitcoin 2,000 years before Satoshi — but after a year of research, he proved it. Connor Dolan — VP of Enterprise Sales at Unchained, former BlackRock and Capital Group — joins The Bitcoin Matrix to break down why Bitcoin and Stoicism are the two most powerful forces shaping how we think about time, money, and how to actually live. We cover why Bitcoin is the MAP and Stoicism is the COMPASS, how a plastic yellow piggy bank on a kitchen counter started Connor's lifelong obsession with money, why the most educated and successful people are always last to understand Bitcoin, what Memento Mori has to do with your sat stack, how modern monetary policy destroys your ability to delay gratification, why Bitcoin is the reverse marshmallow test, the moment Connor had to tell his wife that the thing he'd been calling the future of finance was down 80%, and how leaving BlackRock for Bitcoin was the easiest decision he ever made. "There are only two perfectly scarce resources in this world: time and Bitcoin." — Connor Dolan "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." — Marcus Aurelius Subscribe so you never miss an episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connor Dolan → https://x.com/conhodlan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 Stamp Seed — 15% OFF stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🐟 Firefish — 0% fees on first loan through April 30 firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🔐 Unchained — 10% OFF unchained.com/matrix | code MATRIX10 🏕️ Camp Nakamoto — 15% OFF campnakamoto.com | code MATRIX 💎 River — Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin river.com/matrix 🛡️ Meanwhile — Bitcoin Life Insurance meanwhile.bm | code YTPFYD ☕ Ora Cacao — 10% OFF snwbl.io/ora/CEDRIC02233 | code CEDRIC02233 🤝 Want to sponsor the show? thebitcoinmatrix.com/sponsors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Strike → [email protected] 💵 PayPal → paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix 💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 💜 Venmo → venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix 📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 FOLLOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website → TheBitcoinMatrix.com 🐦 Cedric on X → x.com/cedyoungelman 🐦 Show on X → x.com/_bitcoinmatrix 🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟠 CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00:00 Breaking Out of the Rat Race 0:00:52 Introducing Connor Dolan: Bitcoin & Stoicism 0:02:12 Connor's Biggest Childhood Hobby 0:06:32 Appreciating the Scarcity of Time 0:10:52 Unchained Ad 0:11:44 Connor's History with Money — The Kitchen Counter Piggy Bank 0:15:40 Questioning Everything You Know About Money 0:20:11 Realizing Working Hard & Saving Wasn't Enough 0:23:42 Firefish Ad 0:26:09 Calling Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme in 2017 0:36:51 The Informed Investor vs The Stubborn Investor 0:43:49 Unchained Ad 0:44:17 Discovering Stoicism Through a Co-Worker at Unchained 0:50:52 Bitcoin as a Map, Stoicism as a Compass 0:51:25 Stamp Seed Ad 0:58:05 Memento Mori — Remember You're Going to Die 1:02:02 Bitcoin Zooms Out, Stoicism Pulls You Into the Present 1:04:25 Firefish Ad 1:05:13 Marcus Aurelius — It Is Not Death That a Man Should Fear 1:09:59 Stoicism Is Not About Removing Emotion 1:13:38 Leaving BlackRock for Bitcoin — 100% Conviction 1:17:20 Stamp Seed Ad 1:17:40 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius — The Reading List 1:22:35 Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast is for entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes financial, legal, or investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always do your own research. The views expressed are the host's and guests' own opinions and do not constitute any offer, solicitation, or guarantee of any kind. The viewer assumes all responsibility for any actions taken based on this content.