I recently read "Digital Gold" by Nathaniel Popper, a book a recommend to anyone learning about the origins and political landscape of Bitcoin, and I noticed that quite a few of the early Bitcoin players were avid jiu jitsu practitioners. For those that don't know what jiu jitsu is, it is a fast growing martial art that combines best grappling practices (like judo) and enables a much smaller man to beat a larger man using chokes and other uncomfortable holds.
Roger Ver, the world's first bitcoin investor, is a current brown belt living in Japan. His first investment was in Charlie Shrem's Bitinstant and went on to fund in Kraken, Blockchain.info and others.
In an interview with bjjee.com, he said the following:
-What similarities do you see between the BJJ and Bitcoin communities?
This was the hardest question for me to answer. I suppose the biggest similarities is that they are so diverse. Just like in BJJ, Bitcoin now has people involved from every walk of life.
There are Ph.D computer science professors doing both Bitcoin things and BJJ, and there are people who just want to smoke pot involved with both.
Bitcoin doesn’t discriminate, and neither does BJJ.
I see a very interesting and meaningful relationship between jiu jitsu (BJJ) and the cryptocurrency world. Both don't discriminate (as noted above) and both use strategic approaches that allow for an underdog (or smaller person) to take down a powerhouse (larger man or institution).
Thanks for reading. I wanted to share this idea and see if it resonated with anyone.
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Very interesting post. I am bjj practitioner and I can see how having a fluid open mind can make you seek out other paths than traditional veichles. I want to learn more of this.
this is dope! i think there are actual uses between the coin and bjj community