Rami has been traveling extensively in the past year to visit Bitcoin communities across the globe; visiting Baltic Honeybadger in Riga, the Bobspace people in Bangkok and the Freedom Festival in Boston/Mass.
Late in 2023 the Bitcoin community in Vietnam was honoured to welcome Rami and our team took the opportunity to converse with him about his journey - in the physical and spiritual realm.
"I left Iwa to work for this company called Playmysong. That led me to the US in SF.
That was a time when all of the early bitcoin meetups were happening. Ironically, I was living in Soma just a few blocks away.
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I have to say… I started going to these blockchain conferences in Dubai and Malta… and the more I spoke to these people, the less convinced I became. The excitement was there, but it was more how to make money as fast as possible. And in every blockchain conference, there were maybe 1 or 2 bitcoin people, and when you talk to them, it’s more calm and they talk about how Bitcoin specifically is a much bigger thing. This is about changing the world and not about short term gains or anything like that.
Over time everything started to click. I had the tech background, I had the puck rock background. I started understanding bitcoin to the point of- Bitcoin Is The Most Important Thing. Everything else is secondary and in most cases harmful to people. By 2020 I went bitcoin only.
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And with bitcoin culture, it’s exactly the same thing. There is distrust with the legacy organizations. Obviously, this “Don’t Trust. Verify.” principle is great.
Sometimes you read something about bitcoin that is great – it makes sense, it’s well researched and accurate. But so often that is not the case and when they write about bitcoin, it’s so full of errors. Either ignorant or deliberate misinformation. A very similar kind of vibe to punk rock back in the day.
Our full interview with Rami:
https://bitcoinvn.io/news/bitcoin-is-punk/Some of Rami's Bitcoin songs can be listened to here:
https://www.youtube.com/@the_higher_low