#133: Bitcoin Use Case in El Salvador, 1729 Network State, Become a Global Citizen, Speak Foreign Languages in 6 months with Antoine Dusséaux
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My guest today is Antoine Dusséaux). Antoine is a legaltech entrepreneur) based in London and co-founded Doctrine), the first legal information platform.

He’s passionate about law, economics, geopolitics, and languages.

In this episode, we discussed:

• How to describe 1729 and Network State to children to help them understand this progressive technical concept?

• What are the fundamental values that bonded the 1729 community? What 1729 community members in common?

• What's so special about El Salvador? Will the World's First Bitcoin City be the protocol that other countries can learn from?

• Share the first-hand experience of exploring bitcoin's daily user case in El Salvador.

• How to be a responsible global citizen and make sense of our world?

• What's the secret of learning foreign languages as an adult (Antoine is a native French speaker who learned to speak Chinese, Russian and Arabic)?

• What others hold a stereotype about China is wrong based on your first-hand experience working in a Chinese factory?

• What's the underground church in China?

• The relationship between languages and ideologies

• Why should you start to write online and build connections?

Books/links mentioned in this episode

• 1729.com)

• The Network State: How To Start a New Country) book by Balaji Srinivasan

• Real Bitcoin use cases in El Salvador)

• Antoine’s Newsletter on Product, Law, Economics, Geopolitics, and Languages)

• Underground church)

• Bitcoin is now ‘legal tender’ in El Salvador)

• How to be fluent in 6 months?)

• Story of Your Life) by Ted Chiang)

• Handan, City in China)

• Cultural intelligence: Become a global citizen)

• Linguistic relativity)

• Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters)

• What do Taiwanese think of simplified Chinese?)

• Transcript: Vladimir Putin’s Televised Address on Ukraine)

• Learning new languages with Pimsleur)

• Build a Personal Monopoly)

• How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area)

• 1729 Writers Collection)