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Back to EpisodesGen Z Had No Hope in the Old System. Then She Found Bitcoin w/ Nicki Sharma
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She's 20 years old, studying computer science in Australia, comes from a Bitcoin family — and just released her 100th episode.
In this episode of BitCorner Podcast, we sit down with Nikki, Gen Z Bitcoin & AI educator and host of her own podcast, to talk about what it's actually like to grow up right now: rent going up three times in a year, AI eating the job market, a broken monetary system no one taught you about in school — and then discovering Bitcoin.
We go deep on why Gen Z might be the most important generation for Bitcoin adoption, how AI is reshaping content creation and careers, low time preference as a life philosophy, and the one hypothetical that will keep you thinking for days: if Satoshi walked up to you in a coffee shop and handed you their private keys — what would you do?
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0:00 Cold Open — "Money Is the Problem"
1:45 Welcome & Intro: Three Generations of Bitcoiners in One Season
3:10 Introducing Nikki — Gen Z Podcaster, Bitcoin & AI Educator
4:30 Growing Up in a Bitcoin Family — How It Actually Happened
7:00 Moving to Australia, Rising Rent & the Moment Money Became Real
10:00 What Is Money? — Watching "What's the Problem?" by Joe Bryan
13:00 Reading The Bitcoin Standard & Broken Money — Then Starting a Podcast
16:00 100 Episodes in 7 Months: The Release Schedule That Worked
19:30 What Gen Z Actually Faces: AI, Job Market & The Broken Path
24:00 Why Universities Still Only Teach Keynesian Economics
27:00 Bitcoin Education for El Salvador vs. Gen Z Content — The Same Mission
30:00 How to Get Anyone Curious About Bitcoin: Start With "What Is Money to You?"
34:00 The Psychology of Money — The Book That Started It All at 16
37:00 Bitcoin & AI: Why Nikki Covers Both Together
41:00 AI in 2023 vs. AI Now — From Useless Chatbot to Full Workflow Automation
46:00 Using AI to Run a Podcast: Outreach, Scheduling, Research, Editing
50:00 Bitcoin Is Scarcity in a World of AI Abundance
53:00 Question from Bram (Bitcoin for Millennials): What's Your Foundational Motivation?
57:00 "I Needed Something to Believe In" — Bitcoin as Hope for Gen Z
62:00 The Immaculate Conception of Bitcoin — Why No One Can Copy It
65:00 What Had to Change: Low Time Preference, Shopping Addiction & Social Media
69:00 Question from Gio (WallAxe): Will