He walked away from 17 years in the heart of the global financial system — foreign exchange desks, voice brokerage houses, the City of London, Singapore — to travel the world with his wife and four kids, world-school his children, write a book, and start one of the biggest Bitcoin podcasts on the planet. This week, we sit down with Daniel Prince, host of Once Bitten, and the conversation does not disappoint.

Daniel takes us inside the reality of financial markets most people never see: central banks publicly devaluing currencies, governments printing money in secret, and why the people of Indonesia would rather hold US dollars than their own currency. He connects all of it directly to Bitcoin — and to why our generation might actually be the most primed to understand it.

We also get into world schooling vs the traditional education system, the concept of time preference and why it matters for teenagers, the origin story of Once Bitten, and what it really means to Choose Life.

If you've ever felt trapped by a system that wasn't built for you — this one's for you.

⏱ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Welcome & intro

00:37 — Daniel's 17 years in banking: foreign exchange, voice brokerage, the City of London

02:09 — Starting out at 19 on the Dollar-Mark spot desk at Tullet & Tokyo

06:05 — The Bentley story: nearly wrecking two directors' cars on day two

15:56 — The Euro arrives, the spot desk disappears, and moving into options

17:34 — Why Daniel went to Singapore and what it taught him about money

19:38 — Indonesian locals refusing their own currency: the first glimpse of fiat failure

22:20 — What a pint of beer in 2009 tells you about inflation today

23:24 — Inside the engine room: what they don't teach you in school about how money works

24:21 — Bank of Japan intervention: watching a central bank devalue its own currency live

30:32 — Reading The Four Hour Workweek and deciding to leave it all behind

32:54 — Pulling the kids from school, world schooling, and three years of home swapping

41:05 — "When are you coming back to real life?" — the moment Choose Life was born

43:02 — How leaving finance sent Daniel down the Bitcoin rabbit hole

45:09 — Gen Z's version of the rat race: school, social media, and stolen time

49:18 — Is the education system broken? Daniel's answer: it's working exactly as designed

50:21 — The Federal Reserve, Jekyll Island, and how central banking really got started

54:26 — Fiat food: why the food pyramid was upside down and who benefits

1:00:24 — When did Daniel first hear about Bitcoin, and why did he ignore it?

1:01:47 — Real Vision, Grant Williams, and finally going down the rabbit hole for real

1:06:06 — The ICO bubble, getting burned, and becoming a Bitcoin maximalist

1:09:26 — Time preference explained: why delaying gratification changes everything

1:13:14 — The origin of Once Bitten and why Lauren asks the first question on every episode

1:16:33 — The common thread across 600+ Bitcoin guests: what predetermined them all

1:19:22 — The most powerful moments from six years of podcasting

1:24:28 — Daniel's final word: the 21 million hard cap and what it really means

🔗 DANIEL PRINCE — LINKS

Once Bitten Podcast: https://www.once-bitten.com/

Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/2oJTnUm5VKs3xmSVdf5n

Choose Life (book): https://bitcoinbook.shop/products/choose-life?Format=Paperback

Follow Daniel on X: https://x.com/Princey21M

🔗 ORANGE PILL ORDER

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