In Search of Bitcoin: How We Ended Up Talking About Everything. An Interview with Coinbase Senior Teaching Engineer, Jeremy Jones

I came into this conversation thinking I was finally going to understand Bitcoin. And I did. Kinda. But that turned out to be the least interesting part.

Jeremy Jones is Senior Teaching Engineer at Coinbase, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. I've known him since 2008, when we were both volunteering at a Vipassana centre above Dharamsala in the Himalayas — the same year, as it happens, that Satoshi Nakamoto published the paper that started all of this.

His journey to where he is now took in a Royal Enfield motorcycle, eight months through the Himalayas, a kidnapping by Maoists, a decade of near-poverty teaching in San Francisco, and a leap into coding in his early thirties with no savings and no safety net.

We talk about Bitcoin — what it is, why it matters, why it's more philosophically interesting than most people realise. And then we talk about everything else: reinvention, burnout, meditation, community, and what it actually takes to change your life when you have no idea what you're doing.

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