Energy Leaders

Todays guest is Alex Brammer (PHD), ex US Army company commander and parachutist, now VP of Business Development of Luxor Mining , which he describes as a, ‘Bitcoin Mining Services ecosystem'. We talk, beards, parachute injuries, nuclear and renewable mining realities, the Petro Dollar plus regime change in Saudi Arabia and even a little Bitcoin!   connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7   Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the  super human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer  @budziaga on Instagram. 

We talk bitcoin scams, security concerns, shit-coin projects, freedom, and how one of Michael's countryman beat the snot out of Thor!  Michael's Top BTC Tips - click here  Bitcoinreserve.com         Bitcoin Reserve on Twitter   connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7   Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer  @budziaga on Instagram. 

Thor and Natalie host a free range Bitcoiner conversation with guests Richard Messit and Alex. From the surprising history of currency in Africa to modern Government threats to bitcoiners... connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram. 

Investors and Bitcoin thinkers, Allen Farrington, and Sacha Meyers, sat down with Thor and disagreed over their (radical!) soon to be published book, 'Bitcoin is Venice'.  connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.   

Aleks is surely the most banned from twitter Bitcoin thought leader, writer and speaker?! We enjoy a free range conversation to put it mildly; prepare to be offended... Aleks Svetski is Co Founder and CEO at AMBER; Australia's first app, to combine a digital currency exchange, wallet, and round ups, allowing anyone to swap the spare change from their every-day transactions into Bitcoin – on auto-pilot. connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.   

Ivan Gutierrez IS CEO at OGC Energy oilandgascorrosion.com  and an Expert in Metallurgy and Corrosion helping energy operators manage risk. Ivan is also the owner of a magnificent beard and a great laugh. We talked energy transition reality, the secret to Mexican food, mexgrocer.co.uk is his answer!  connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.   

Mark Simmers is CEO of Celtic Renewables and I talked sustainability loops, bio fuel, whisky, advantages of basing business in Scotland, then I try to Orange Pill Mark with talk of stranded renewable energy bitcoin mining and Scotland as the next El Salvador! "Our philosophy is to only use co-products, waste and residue from other industries... incineration is the last step because there's a lot of value you can extract first..." "Scotland is a fantastic eco system for early stage business and investment... a great place to establish Celtic Renewables..." "...Bitcoin as a global currency could be really important... for example to protect against exchange rate issues with overseas investment..."  Celtic Renewables Ltd is an innovative start-up company formed to commercialise a process for producing a superior next generation biofuel and other high value sustainable products, from the by-products of biological industries.  Mark helped to co-found Celtic Renewables in late 2011, and has been the company's CEO since its inception leading the growth of the company and securing over £30m of investment finance to fund that growth and the construction of the company's first bio-refinery. Mark has won numerous investment pitching and business presentation awards on behalf of Celtic Renewables, and has built a strong and dynamic team at the company. "..How can we create a (low cost, low carbon) energy hub, attracting businesses in...?" Find out about more about the technology and the crowd raise we mentioned on the show, at celtic-renewables.com connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram. 

Amélie Arras tells her amazing Bitcoin adoption story; involving dodging arrest in Vietnam and travelling to Vegas with ZERO no dollars and having to convince everyone she met to adopt Bitcoin! Spoiler alert, she succeeded.  Amelie is a key part of the team at Edinburgh based Zumo. Zumo makes the buying, selling, sending and spending of your digital assets seamless, simple and secure (and FUN according to Amelie!) Check out Zumo here https://zumo.money/  Connect with Amélie Arras on Twitter, @AmelieArras please tell her you heard her, on the Energy Leaders Show connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Energy Leaders Podcast support is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram. 

"...money's Kodak moment. This is a network transfer. The people that go earlier onto bitcoin... just like those who bought Amazon at $5, will do well." Jeff Booth joined energyleaders.io From Palermo Sicily... we discuss, inflation, interest rates, climate change, build back better, quantum computing as the threat to bitcoin, evil conspiracy versus systemic failure, chaos, FIAT money's Kodak moment, power vacuums and societal breakdown! Jeff is an Entrepreneur, Technology Leader, and Author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future "...when a government goes against bitcoin, the more they're screaming at their people, why they need it!" "...Inflation equals climate change... you can't solve climate change from a system that requires inflation. It's impossible. Especially when technology should be saving you time...The existing system doesn't have an answer and just hand waves!" "I know a whole bunch of climate activists who have gotten into bitcoin, because of this.. and now they are advocating for a system change... because there is no way Governemnts will." "..if you have misinformation in money, you have more misinformation everywhere... a lot of people are waking up to that.. they governments are having to create greater and greater crisis." "...we give too much power to those other people [in power] and these people have that power because we don't use ours. We don't stand up...." "...bitcoin is an emergent network  it looks like the internet itself. it gets more bullet proof with each user. We are all making  choice. More and more people are waking up everyday and porting to a new system [bitcoin]"  "...they are too late on central bank digital currencies' [to stop bitcoin] digital currency is surveillance disguised as money!" "...there's going to be a lot of head fakes about interest rates going up, but they can't go up, because the minute they do you'll have a deflationary spiral and government has to come in and print way more..." "Inflation is really Robin Hood in reverse..." "...Could Governments lean into Quantum computing and try to break encryption on Bitcoin... that is the only thing that could stop bitcoin. There's a market driver to make bitcoin quantum resistant as quantum moves forward..." "...all the paths short of bitcoin take us to war and reset...artificial intelligence is moving really fast, robotics is moving really fast... imagine someone getting to control all that.." '...interest rates are going down... because you have two forces colliding, a deflationary force driven by technology, and an inflationary force required by the existing system. That inflationary force is required... for the existing credit based...because today the governments have the debt...  so deflation leads to everything unwinding... like the great depression on steroids! A reset of all currencies... there is no solve from the existing system...' Connect with Jeff Booth on Twitter, @jeffbooth and please tell him you heard him, on Thor's Energy Leaders  connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Podcast support team is led by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, our creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.   

A reading of Larry Lepard's recent, 'Fix the money - Fix the World', speech at the New Orleans Gold Show. His 1 in 500 story is inspiring and encouraging for all sound money, sound energy, bitcoin and gold enthusiasts. connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Podcast support is by the awesome and amusing human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, my creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.     

"2021 Money is unhinged... sound money is a moral issue..." "The central banks are trapped, they've taken us down a monetary Cul-de-sac. They are damned if they do, damned if they don't. Higher interest rates would take us to something like the great depression." " I can't tell you how much this (btc) reminds me of the internet. We are at the 10%, 'that's obvious' tipping point. Someday someone will say holy sh*t you bought a coin for 60,000... you were in early!" "I was in 2nd grade when Kennedy was assassinated... the invention of Bitcoin is a true inflection point in history! "I don't think we can know the right price for anything... we are really in a very chaotic monetary period." "House prices are up 20%, numbers not achieved pre 2007/8 housing crash. We've flipped the deflationary trend, and there's no going back." Your host, Thor Holt (founder at energyleaders.io ) talk inflation, car and Oil price predictions, Larry's drunken Scottish road trips, suicidal sheep and reindeer genocide.  They share 1970's inflationary lessons, the probability of central bank digital currencies, and discuss how Bitcoin is the realisation of the hippie anti war movement, but with economic rigor built in!   Avuncular champion of Bitcoin for the broken monetary system, Lawrence (Larry) Lepard shares his investor perspective spanning nearly 50 professional years. He is an experienced Gold stock fund manager, and Investment Manager, at Equity Management Associates, Boston.  Check out his recent speech in New Orleans, Fix the Money, Fix the World!  Connect with Larry on Twitter, and please tell him you heard him, on Thor's Energy Leaders podcast @LawrenceLepard  connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Podcast support is by the awesome and amusing human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, my creative Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.   

"Governments banning btc only makes the network and the individual user stronger, so the most courageous and the boldest win." "When a country bans bitcoin, it makes Bitcoiners more aware how to really claim their sovereignty... there are so many more levels of self sovereignty to claim... but no-one can tell you how far to go!"  "Ownership of your time is real freedom... Bitcoin brings this freedom" "...all religions take advantage... but modern statism is the worst religion..." "Bitcoin has created the first community of individualists" Real life Sea Captain, Knut Svanholm, and your host, Thor Holt ( connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here ) share Viking laughs and catch up on remote Scottish islands they have in common  - see croft picture and videos of the caves we discuss, here at our home page www.energyleaders.io ) ,  and they go on to talk mid Atlantic hurricane survival, war, peace, politics and of course, bitcoin self sovereignty!  A former Sea Captain of large sailing ships, Rock Musician and now in demand Bitcoin speaker, (E.g., Stockholm Fintech Week and the Value of Bitcoin Conference) Knut has written a couple of excellent books on Bitcoin, 'Bitcoin, Independence Reimagined' and, 'Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics' - one of the highest rated Bitcoin books on amazon and Goodreads... here is the Captain Knut author page on Amazon . An amusing and warm character, Knut often collaborates with other bitcoiners (such as previous Energy Leaders guest, @TheGuySwann of Bitcoin Audible), and is the author behind several highly engaging short educational YouTube videos on the subject Captain Knut's Short & Punchy Youtube Playlist Connect with Knut on Twitter, and please tell him where you heard him, Thor's Energy Leaders podcast @knutsvanholm  _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Podcast support is by the awesome and amusing human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, my creative and talented Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... @budziaga on Instagram.   

"...not surprising we are having an energy crisis... if you're not investing, you won't get anything out of the ground!" "...the present is already too late!" - Why ESG needs to be built in to the project pricing model as with eCERTO's INTEGRATI ™ software.  Thor Holt ( connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here ) your host plus founder at www.energyleaders.io ) and his guest, Shana Cleto, Executive Advisor at eCERTO, talk inflation, ESG in Energy Capital Projects, dynamic price modelling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu! eCERTO https://www.ecerto.io   _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Podcast support is by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, my Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... find them both on Instagram, @budziaga and tell them Thor sent you.   

With an "ocean of bitcoin writing out there", Guy has read it all, filtered out the poor, and on his BITCOIN AUDIBLE podcast, reads the most valuable btc writing from the likes of Allen Farrington, Saifedean Ammous, Greg Foss and Nic Carter to name but a few energetic legends in the space! Guy tells Thor his remarkable success story, from gaming addiction to top performing professional podcaster, via some romantic reading, and is what I'm now calling 'the voice of bitcoin'...   Bitcoin Magazine is the site he recommends for beginners seeking a rapid working knowledge, and his Top 3 Bitcoin Books are: - 'The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking', by Saifedean Ammous, - 'Inventing Bitcoin; The Technology Behind the First Truly Decentralized Money Explained', by Yan Pritzker. - '21 Lessons: what I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole'. By Gigi. Thor Holt ( connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here ) is your host plus founder at www.energyleaders.io ) and you can find Guy on Twitter @TheGuySwann    _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Podcast support is by the awesome human who is, Natalie @vidavirtualsupport on Instagram, and our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, my Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... find them both on Instagram, @budziaga and tell them Thor sent you.   

"...Bitcoin is a safer investment at $55,000 than it was at $1000..." "...The (mathematical) probability of $2M Bitcoin increases every day the network continues to function... their are plenty of outcomes that lead to 2M and higher." "...If you're in the energy business, you'd better understand what bitcoin is. Bitcoin is digital energy!" Thor Holt ( connect with Thor Holt on LinkedIn here ) your host plus founder at www.energyleaders.io ) and his guest, Greg Foss, agree to keep out of politics, but fail cheerfully! From Justin Trudeau to BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, and his take on ESG investing, Greg doesn't pull his punches.  A survivor and thriver despite multiple financial crisis,( Greg Foss on LinkedIn )Greg is a 32 years high-yield credit trading and analysis veteran, now power/energy and bitcoin strategist, at Validus Power Corp .   Validus provides customers of all types including bitcoin miners, industrial businesses, developing/remote communities, essential services, and data centres, the ability to generate reliable, sustainable power whenever and wherever it is needed, using stranded natural gas.  Energy that would otherwise be completely wasted.  You can find and indeed, Direct Message Greg on Twitter @FossGregfoss  PS - the low water usage, no splash back, no smell lavatory business mentioned, can be found at bubblebog or by searching BBC Dragon's Den 2021 archive.   _________ Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Our original show Jingle is composed by Oksana Budza, my Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... find her on Instagram, @budziaga and tell her Thor sent you. 

"Bitcoin is powering a green energy revolution... bringing financial inclusion to Africa... and saving many in Venezuela..." Thor Holt (your host and founder at www.energyleaders.io ) tries the 'Bitcoin is bad for the environment, isn't it?' (FUD) move, and gets properly schooled by Dominic! We also cover, the strange anti email spam history that begat  Proof Of Work, including some cool Satoshi Nakamoto detail... we get exasperated about Bitcoin and the 'stupid culture war', and agree that Bitcoin is a force for good against actual war and environmental damage... and finally, look at how Scotland could successfully become independent from Westminster... El Salvador with Whisky anyone?  If you don't know Dominic Frisby, he is MoneyWeek's main commentator on gold, commodities, currencies and cryptocurrencies. He's author of the books, Bitcoin: The Future of Money?, Daylight Robbery: How tax Shaped our Past and Will Change Our Future, and Life After The State He presents the podcast and youtube show, Stuff That Interests Me Podcast , speaking with concise wisdom and wit on various economic and crypto topics of the moment.  His 2016 show, 'Let's Talk About Tax' was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can follow him on Twitter @Dominicfrisby and subscribe to his Podcast, Stuff That Interests Me   Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show - research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc.  Bitcoin Tip Jar > 3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Original show Jingle is by Oksana Budza, my Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... find her on Instagram, @budziaga and tell her Thor sent you. 

Thor meanders around his drug addled hippie past, the political present and the re-wilding future of the Energy Leaders show... Nothing on this podcast is financial advice. However, Please consider tipping the show, because it is a labour of love which takes many hours per show (research, communications with guests, recording, edit, show set up/notes etc) Bitcoin Tip Jar, even 10 bucks is appreciated ;) and $100 wins you a personal coaching discovery deep dive with Thor - companies pay him £1600/day!  3J9UqMxU52amhVf5tJfb6ZjjdQyaCsrsd7 Original show Jingle is by Oksana Budza, my Violinist and Music Producer friend in sunny Saint Petersburg, Russia... find her on Instagram, @budziaga and tell her Thor sent you.