Bitcoin is the technology of freedom with JP Sears

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In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian Keroles was joined by comedian, freedom advocate and Zion co-founder JP Sears.

“I think freedom is what makes life worth living, period,” Sears said. “And I think freedom is so precious, that it’s the one thing that all people will eventually be willing to die for.”

Sears described how an interview between Tony Robbins and Michael Saylor initially catapulted him into the Bitcoin rabbit hole and allowed him to see Bitcoin as an incredible tool for freedom and sovereignty. After understanding Bitcoin, Sears took action and got heavily involved in the Bitcoin space as the co-founder of social media company Zion. Zion is a censorship-resistant platform built on top of the Lightning Network that aims to cut out rent-seeking middlemen and create free, unstoppable internet communities to communicate and share ideas.

“The Bitcoin world is pretty much a world on its own,” Spears said. “It’s been a little bit separated from the world of normal thinking people, where there aren’t too many outsiders entering the Bitcoin world… And for me, it’s so important to be as much of a bridge as possible, to help outsiders enter this new world and somehow break down the dividing wall that is created through a large amount of technical knowledge that the Bitcoiner world possesses.

Sears shared how he got involved with Zion, what the building process has been like so far, and what the future of Bitcoin-based social media might look like.

“The inspiration for building Zion was the old model of social media, the old paradigm… I think we’ve gone beyond them,” Spears explained. “The censorship model, the idea that a few of Facebook can figure out what you and I are allowed to tell us, that they can dictate our exchange of information and thoughts, that’s what the old social media paradigm has arrived. “

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