#184: Clark Moody

— Clark Moody's 10-year journey in Bitcoin data, starting with Mt. Gox trade feeds in 2011 and building the Bitcoin Dashboard as a free, donation-supported tool for network and economic metrics.

— The correlation between easy money (Federal Reserve printing and student loan programs) and societal problems—bureaucratic bloat, hyperinflation, erosion of time preference, and institutional capture.

— Political polarization, loss of faith in electoral legitimacy, and the potential for civil conflict; the case for localism, decentralization, and peaceful separation as alternatives.

— Bitcoin's role as a censorship-resistant escape hatch and sound money: enabling financial sovereignty, lowering time preference, and shifting culture toward individual responsibility.

— The remnant concept—a small, ideologically committed minority holding Bitcoin and understanding separation of money and state—as a path to systemic change.

— Optimism grounded in free and open-source software, individual empowerment through technology, and low time-preference Bitcoiners building a more resilient, locally governed future.

— Bookmark Clark's free Bitcoin Dashboard ([bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard](https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard)) as a real-time window into network health, mining, fees, and monetary inflation; it provides context that no censored government data can match.

— Recognize that hyperinflation and currency debasement are measurable through grocery prices, the Chapwood Index, and on-chain metrics—use these to inform your personal time-preference decisions and savings strategy.

— Build and defend local institutions (family, faith, neighbors) and acquire Bitcoin with a long-term horizon; this combination of low time preference and financial sovereignty is the strongest cultural antidote to centralized control.