Gen Z Had No Hope in the Old System. Then She Found Bitcoin w/ ⁨Nicki Sharma

🎧 WATCH ON FOUNTAIN.FM & EARN SATS! ⚡ This episode PREMIERES FIRST on Fountain — earn sats while you listen. 🧠 Support independent podcasts. Escape the algorithm. 👉 Listen & subscribe here: https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟧 SUPPORT THE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟦 Blockstream Jade – The BEST Bitcoin hardware wallet. 🔐 Use promo code BITCORNERPODCAST for 10% off: 👉🏼 https://rewards.blockstream.com/bitcornerpodcast 🟠 Bitcoin Conference 2027 – The world's biggest Bitcoin event is coming back to Nashville, TN. 🎫 Use code BITCORNER for a discount on your tickets: 👉 https://track.flexlinkspro.com/g.ashx?foid=24.245444.6669831&trid=1537115.245444&foc=16&fot=9999&fos=6 🐂 Bull Bitcoin – Buy Bitcoin directly into self-custody. No banks. No middlemen. 👉 https://app.bullbitcoin.com/registration/bitcornerpodcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 EPISODE THESIS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 Bitcoin Succeed for Future Generations? 73:00 Bitcoin as Generational Wealth — $10/Day and 1,000 Years Down the Line 77:00 The Hypothetical: Satoshi Walks Into a Coffee Shop and Gives You the Keys 82:00 What Bitcoin Has Given Nikki Beyond Money: Faith & Accountability 84:00 Wrap-Up & Final Thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH NIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 X: https://x.com/orangepeelpodYT: https://www.youtube.com/@OrangePeelPod ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Fountain: https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa🎵 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/bdcsyy4u🍎 Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/cj5wkhxv%F0%9