{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Vin Armani: A Tale of Tech, Liberty, and Legacy","description":"Please welcome Vin Armani, also known as Cyprian, a man of many lives and many talents. Originally from Southern California, Vin first made a name for himself as the star of Showtime's "Gigolos" TV series which chronicled his life as a sought-after gigolo in Las Vegas. By day he's been a professional Bitcoin developer since 2014. He's an author, a researcher, an entrepreneur, and now a married man who moved his wife and children to Saipan in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a little known U.S. territory, as the lunacy around COVID lockdowns kicked into high gear. We discuss everything from the rise and fall of his start-up, CoinText.io, the utility and spiritual aspects of Bitcoin to his baptism in the Eastern Orthodox church. I really enjoyed this show and I hope you do too! Favorite Vin Armani Quote \u201cThe global economy is picking winners and losers\u2026and that has economic ramifications and it also has huge political ramifications.[And you have] the ability to develop an app and say, \u2018Okay, you can come and pay now with this.\u2019 It\u2019s huge, it means so much, and it can [allow] especially the youth of Africa and Latin America to participate in the global economic system. That\u2019s huge\u2026that\u2019s actually even more important than censorship resistance.\u201d - Vin Armani Additional Resources The Saipan Team @Cyprianous on Youtube The Counter Markets Newsletter ","author_name":"Spread Great Ideas: The Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/spreadgreatideas.libsyn.com\/website","html":"