Jack Spirko Interview | Bitcoin And Revisited Bitcoin And Revisited is where I go back through the archives and rerun older interviews that still have something worth hearing today. These conversations may come from earlier days of the show, but the edges I was exploring—Bitcoin, resilience, permaculture, education, podcasting, and culture—still have a way of staying relevant. In this episode, I sat down with Jack Spirko, host of The Survival Podcast, for a wide-ranging conversation on systems thinking, Bitcoin, permaculture, preparedness, podcasting, and the strange overlap between people who want sound money and people who want resilient lives. Jack is not the bunker-and-MRE caricature of “survivalism.” He is a practical, systems-minded thinker who helped push me over the line into finally buying Bitcoin. Topics Covered The overlap between Bitcoiners, preparedness, and regenerative agriculturePermaculture as systems-level design scienceTurning poor land into productive land with ducks, trees, swales, and patienceWhy weeds are not always enemies; sometimes they are messagesEdge effect in ecology, Bitcoin, commerce, podcasting, and communityPreparedness without the bunker fantasyFood storage, backup power, sanitation, security, and personal risk assessmentWhy resiliency matters more than paranoiaPodcasting as a craft, business, and escape hatch from corporate lifeSphinx Chat, Lightning, and streaming sats for value-for-value podcasting Key Takeaways Bitcoin and permaculture may look like different worlds, but both deal with time preference, fragility, resilience, and systems design.Preparedness is not about fantasy collapse scenarios. It is about building redundancy into everyday life.Nature repairs damage if you learn how to observe and cooperate with it.Abundance often appears at the edge where two systems meet.The best security plan is not chest-thumping. It is good decisions, good neighbors, proper procedures, and not being where trouble is.Independent media becomes stronger when listeners can send value directly to creators. Guest Links The Survival Podcast: thesurvivalpodcast.comShort URL: tspc.coContact: jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com Support the Show Support Bitcoin And through Sphinx Chat by streaming sats while you listen. Join the tribe, send a few sats, and participate in the value-for-value model that lets listeners support podcasters directly over the Lightning Network. Get Your Free Comfrey Owner's Manual Here: https://www.bitcoinandshow.com/the-comfrey-owners-manual-is-here/ Help a Brother Out With 5 Star Reviews: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news/id1438789088 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/1dsTluNHIPNsXVRghpqxhY Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ef7d5b6-9137-439d-94eb-8071ec6bf890/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWaKxaQF5Q5WiTq80SBYs_7iLDtleV0rZ Find the Bitcoin And Podcast on every podcast app here: https://episodes.fm/1438789088 Find me on nostr npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd (npub) 6389be6491e7b693e9f368ece88fcd145f07c068d2c1bbae4247b9b5ef439d32 (Hex) Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidB84567 StackerNews: stacker.news/NunyaBidness Podcasting 2.0: fountain.fm/show/eK5XaSb3UaLRavU3lYrI Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/unm35bjh Mastodon: https://noauthority.social/@NunyaBidness Support Bitcoin And . . . on Patreon: patreon.com/BitcoinAndPodcast Find Lightning Network Channel partners here: https://t.me/+bj-7w_ePsANlOGEx (Nodestrich) https://t.me/plebnet (Plebnet) Music by: Flutey Funk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
