{"id":25533,"date":"2025-02-13T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/?p=25533"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:09:46","slug":"renato-moicano-bitcoin-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/renato-moicano-bitcoin-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano on Bitcoin, Fighting, and Money\u2019s Harsh Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Renato Moicano steps up to the mic in the Octagon, you listen not just because you\u2019ve witnessed him beat a man halfway to death but because whatever comes next is guaranteed to be unfiltered, unpredictable, and, so far, always on the money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ranked among the UFC\u2019s top lightweight fighters, \u201cMoney\u201d Moicano brings the same fearless, no-holds-barred mentality to both fighting and finance, weaving sharp commentary on money, government, and personal freedom into his post-fight interviews.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just three days after his recent title fight, Moicano sat down with CoinCentral\u2019s Alex Moskov to dive deeper into the man behind the fighter, the Austrian economics and Bitcoin advocate, and the tri-lingual host of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@showmethemoneypod\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Show Me the Money<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Renato Moicano\u2019s Rising Star and Economic Commentary<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many UFC fighters have had hot streaks, but not many are like Renato Moicano. Fresh off finishing Jalin Turner as a +200 underdog, Moicano\u2019s MMA-gloved hands seized the mic, using Joe Rogan\u2019s extended arm as a microphone stand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adrenaline flowing, the Brazilian-born Moicano launched into a full-throttle tirade, weaving pro-America advocacy of personal freedom, fiscal responsibility, and Ludwig von Mises\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pacificlegal.org\/capitalism-in-the-ring-read-ludwig-von-mises-and-the-six-lessons-of-the-austrian-school\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">six lessons of Austrian economics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into a sermon for 20,000 roaring fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25535\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25535\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"Renato Moicano with Joe Rogan \" width=\"876\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM.png 1268w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM-1024x530.png 1024w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM-131x68.png 131w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM-591x306.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.44.12\u202fAM-621x321.png 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renato Moicano with Joe Rogan. <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Source and Credits: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptn0KyMX8CQ&amp;t=35s&amp;ab_channel=UFC\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UFC<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And let me tell you something, if you care about your own f***ing country, Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school, motherf***ers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These lessons\u2014drawn from a series of Mises\u2019 lectures in Argentina in 1959\u2014champion free markets, warn of inflation\u2019s destructive grip, and argue against the creeping hand of socialism, all while underscoring the perils of government meddling in the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptn0KyMX8CQ?si=zxGg16p3Vtf-Y8af&amp;start=62\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If anyone thought Moicano\u2019s post-fight monologues were a one-off, they were sorely mistaken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His performance and the viral reception earned him a headline spot on UFC Fight Night in Paris on September 28, 2024, against the tough Benoit St. Denis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25536\" style=\"width: 1494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"(Source: UFC)\" width=\"1494\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM.png 1494w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM-131x73.png 131w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM-591x331.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.45.32\u202fAM-621x347.png 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1494px) 100vw, 1494px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Source: UFC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Denis, a former French Army Special Forces operative, looked at the lightweight division as just another battlefield. Moicano, again a +200 underdog against the home-crowd favorite, systematically dismantled St. Denis in the first round, forcing a doctor\u2019s stoppage after the first round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then came the mic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than bask in victory or play the villain role that often comes with spoiling a hometown hero\u2019s night, Moicano turned his sights on Macron, the French government, and global political agendas.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople in France don\u2019t suck, but the government is f*cking horrendous!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audience boos turned into cheers after the translator relayed his comments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano doubled down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cF*ck Macron, f*ck all globalilists, they\u2019re trying to push a political and corrupt agenda!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also assigned some homework: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hans-Hermann Hoppe\u2019s Democracy: The God That Failed, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a book that explores voter behavior, policy-making, and institutional reforms, and how global changes, inequality, and technological advancements have forced democratic evolution in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Renato left to roaring applause. The man knows how to cut a promo, but showmanship aside, Money Moicano is a level-headed first-principles thinker regarding his money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s also completely self-taught. He began teaching himself English at 29 and is entirely self-directed in his knowledge of economics and cryptography.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen I moved to the USA in 2018, Trump was in office, and in Brazil we had Bolsonaro,\u201d says Moicano. \u201cEverybody was talking about how democracy was in danger because of these \u2018populist\u2019 leaders. So I asked myself, \u2018What is democracy?\u2019 I knew you go vote, but what does it really mean? I started reading about the Roman Empire, about Greece, how political systems were created.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching global reactions to Trump and Bolsonaro\u2019s rise was his political awakening\u2014not in the tribal, surface-level way most people experience politics, but in a way that led him down the rabbit hole of governance, money, and ultimately, decentralized finance and Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin, which famously has no politics because it&#8217;s pure programming and math, often requires a deeper political understanding to realize its utility.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn 2021, everybody in the gym was talking about Bitcoin,\u201d says Moicano. \u201cI\u2019d already been investing in stocks, so I bought some Bitcoin. Then it went up, then it crashed, and I started to worry, but I didn\u2019t sell. That\u2019s when I read Bitcoin Red Pill, and it talked about Austrian economics. After that, I started reading all these books about the moral and philosophical side of Bitcoin, and everything made sense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His conviction deepened in the 2022 bear market. While others panic-sold, he kept learning and connecting big-picture economic themes like inflation, government overreach, moral hazard to personal freedom, and the reality of his own lived experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI also bought some crypto games\u2013 I lost a lot of money on these fucking NFTs in crypto games,\u201d Moicano adds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Been there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano\u2019s journey mirrors that of many of Bitcoin\u2019s most die-hard supporters\u2014not just those who read about inflation, government overreach, and systemic manipulation, but those who\u2019ve felt its impact firsthand. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The early Bitcoin movement was born from the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct response to reckless monetary policy, bailouts for the powerful, and the slow siphoning of wealth from the many to the few.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like many Bitcoiners, for Moicano, Bitcoin is a form of self-defense and a safeguard against a rigged system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His post-fight interview coverage runs the gauntlet\u2013 belts, bonuses, gratitudes, callouts, financial literacy, and democracy, and has attracted a loyal fan base that goes beyond his Octagon performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25537\" style=\"width: 1482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1482\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM.png 1482w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM-131x80.png 131w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM-768x468.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM-591x361.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.47.12\u202fAM-621x379.png 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1482px) 100vw, 1482px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Source: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vit5Isb_sfk&amp;ab_channel=UFC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His performance in Paris earned him a spot on the UFC 311 card on January 18, 2025. Initially set to face a different opponent\u2014one he\u2019d spent an entire training camp preparing for\u2014fate had other plans. A whirlwind series of events led to Moicano being asked, last minute, to step in for a shot at the UFC Lightweight Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fight didn\u2019t go his way, but Moicano left the cage with minimal damage to both body and spirit, using his post-fight mic time to give the champion Islam Makhachev the credit he deserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano revealed he had something else in mind for that moment on Twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I wish I had won yesterday, grabbed the microphone, and told you to read Murray Rothbard\u2019s What Has Government Done to Our Money! Why money should be a commodity with a floating price dictated by the free market! Why central banks are institutions that, instead of helping the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Renato Moicano (@moicanoufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moicanoufc\/status\/1881021728773869695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, we sat down for an interview to discuss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Renato Moicano on Bitcoin and &#8220;Proof of Work&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fighting and philosophy share roots stretching back millennia. To the ancients, a true philosopher was no mere armchair theorist. Plato, whose nickname means \u201cbroad-shouldered,\u201d wrestled. Socrates and Marcus Aurelius championed physical training as a key to mental clarity and moral virtue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They believed moral and intellectual insight required discipline honed in the mind and body. This dual commitment to wisdom and justice once defined the archetype of the \u201cphilosopher king,\u201d a ruler who wielded thought and action with equal mastery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet over the centuries, that vision has faded in favor of more disembodied, specialized academic pursuits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With all due respect to many of the brilliant minds of recent history, today\u2019s thinkers are mostly behind lecterns or on digital platforms, rarely stepping into spaces that test their physical resolve. As a result, they miss out on the invaluable feedback loop that comes from direct physical engagement with the real world\u2014the kind that sharpens intellect and instinct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Echo chambers of \u201cexperts\u201d without skin in the game or real-world experience have exercised a grip on communications channels, each biased in one political direction or the other.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s not to suggest the world\u2019s problems would be solved if economics just began deadlifting, like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Swan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antifragile<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mathematician writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, or if captains of industry began training jiujitsu, like Mark Zuckerberg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25543\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25543\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault-131x74.jpg 131w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault-591x332.jpg 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maxresdefault-621x349.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerburg being very human, demonstrating a rear-naked choke on Lex Fridman. (Source: Lex Fridman&#8217;s podcast)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there\u2019s something to be said for clarity, resilience, real-world adaptability, and critical refinement of effort forged in both the gym and the arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMost people live in an abstract mindset where everything\u2019s relative, but get out there and train,\u201d says Moicano. \u201cDo something that reminds you that you\u2019re human. Do something meaningful with your life\u2014and if you can make money, buy Bitcoin, study Bitcoin, and let people know you\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While modern thought has produced staggering advancements, cracks emerge where theory collides with reality\u2013 take our impossibly complex economy, labyrinthine monetary policies that even their stewards cannot fully understand, and the perennial question of what it truly means to govern justly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tides, however, seem to be shifting. Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, and Jocko Willink\u2014whose combined audiences reach hundreds of millions each month\u2014are all black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as is Renato Moicano. Eddie Bravo, another black belt and frequent Rogan guest, pioneered 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu and is widely credited with popularizing a new wave of grappling in America\u2013 we\u2019ll explore this point later on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m a huge fan of guys like Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, and podcasting because you can have really long conversations and explain your point in a long format. That was how I learned English, too, because when I got in the USA, I didn\u2019t speak English at all. I was watching podcasts and tried to figure out what they were saying. So, maybe I was influenced by that, you know, but I think the pursuit of truth is the most important thing in life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of them claim to have all the answers. Their podcasts are less about definitive conclusions and more about pursuing truth, wherever it may lead, regardless of what feathers it may ruffle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano and I discussed the unique place fighting has in thought and the insights that emerge where intellect and action collide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMartial arts, like Bitcoin, is proof of work,\u201d says Moicano. \u201cYou have to test yourself. You have to train, show up, and compete; nothing is guaranteed. Not only martial arts, but every sport. If you want to be a champion, you have to compete. To compete, you have to train. It\u2019s not guaranteed. Only the best gets the prize. You know, you\u2019re going to try against other machines per-se, right? It\u2019s like mining\u2013 whoever is the best, faster, will get the prize. It\u2019s a lot like the Bitcoin network.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Moicano, proof of work is a way of life, not just a consensus mechanism. His comparison between Bitcoin\u2019s mining process and the demands of real-world competition offers a fascinating parallel for crypto enthusiasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin\u2019s proof-of-work system has long been criticized within the cryptocurrency space for its speed, lack of interoperability, and inability to be \u201csmart\u201d like Ethereum\u2019s smart-contract-friendly network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, it remains the undisputed champion for a reason. Winning, as it turns out, is incredibly energy-intensive, and there\u2019s no way around it\u2013 at least not an indefinite way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While other blockchains rely on proof-of-stake and models entangled in inflationary emissions, governance complexities, and buyback incentives, Bitcoin is brutally simple: machines compete, the first to solve the problem wins, and the fastest and most efficient are rewarded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, this race isn\u2019t just between individual miners but entire industrial-scale mining farms, all vying for the block reward\u2014currently 3.125 BTC, or roughly $325,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Sound Money Moicano on the Pursuit of Truth and Personal Challenge<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano\u2019s pro-Bitcoin and financial literacy commentary is something of an anomaly in the entertainment world, where celebrities, fighters, and now politicians, will use moments of fame and attention to peddle shitcoins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After spending time with Moicano, it\u2019s clear that\u2019s not his game. There\u2019s no Money Moicano Solana memecoin, no Show Me the Money NFT collection\u2014at least, not any officially affiliated with him that we know of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople ask me, \u2018Moicano, when should I buy Bitcoin?\u2019 And I always tell them, \u2018Don\u2019t buy if you don\u2019t want to study.\u2019 Because if you buy just because the price is going up, you\u2019ll sell when it goes down. You have to do the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a shared ethos of no shortcuts, no illusions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you try to follow the truth and you\u2019re true to yourself, you\u2019re going to get to good places in life because only the truth can set you free,\u201d says Moicano. \u201cI think Bitcoin is like the truth economically\u2013 the truth of money.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His choice of words\u2014\u201conly the truth can set you free\u201d\u2014underscores a moral dimension to holding sound money, further highlighting the integration of his learned experiences into a personal heuristic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano, it turns out, is what the cryptocurrency world calls a Bitcoin maximalist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In crypto circles, that\u2019s a line-in-the-sand declaration: Bitcoin is king, and everything else is just a distraction, a scam, or an elaborate Ponzi scheme with no fundamentals.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No proof of work! No mining ! Billions of tokens! Totally centralized! A company literally have all the supply! Hijack the blockchain technology to use for banks and legacy system! The last thing that I would care about bitcoin is the price!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6maIHfQPbw\">https:\/\/t.co\/6maIHfQPbw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Renato Moicano (@moicanoufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moicanoufc\/status\/1882627498837692480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to his money, he\u2019s a first-principles thinker, demanding the same clarity and excellence in performance that is demanded of him in mastering his craft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shifting gears, the rise of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the U.S. has swept up a surprising demographic: startup founders, tech workers, and brain-heavy professionals who spend their days behind laptops and their evenings fighting for underhooks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a sight to behold\u2014120-pound purple belt developers effortlessly choking out 215-pound muscle-bound cop white belts, leveraged technique humbling brute strength in real-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sport has exploded in popularity, with Google search trends peaking in 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike boxing or Muay Thai, BJJ doesn\u2019t require you to eat punches for breakfast\u2014making it a natural draw for those who rely on their brains as much as their bodies. Famously, Mark Zuckerberg joined the fold, recruiting many of the world\u2019s best grapplers and fighters for one-on-ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25538\" style=\"width: 1458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25538 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1458\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM.png 1458w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM-131x78.png 131w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM-591x350.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-11.48.22\u202fAM-621x368.png 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google search trends data shows search queries for \u201cjiu jitsu\u201d and \u201cbjj\u201d. The dip in 2020 can be explained by the pandemic. (Source: Google Trends)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">But there\u2019s another, more elusive thread running through BJJ\u2019s rise\u2014one that connects unlikely groups like crypto diehards, startup founders, and martial artists to a broader shift in how people engage with reality, risk, and politics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The throughline isn\u2019t immediately obvious, but Moicano\u2019s journey offers some clues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fighting forces you to face reality in a way few other pursuits do. There\u2019s no faking it on the mats. Mistakes have immediate consequences\u2014you either adapt or you tap. This kind of visceral, real-time feedback rewires how you think, cutting through abstraction and exposing uncomfortable truths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the exact opposite of modern politics, where bad policies don\u2019t always have clear, immediate repercussions\u2014until they do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your generation might not even feel the effects, creating an intergenerational debt-fueled relay race. Every generation passes the burden to the next, hoping they won\u2019t be the one collapsing at the finish line\u2014assuming there\u2019s even a next generation to pass the burden to, given plummeting birth rates and the growing trend of opting out of parenthood altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce you see the financial system is messed up, once you see democracy can be a fallacy, you can\u2019t unsee it. People want free stuff, and the government wants to be elected, so they promise free stuff. That drives inflation, taxation, and more control. The state always wants to grow, so we\u2019re not safe. We have to secure our assets in a hard, sound money that can\u2019t be inflated or seized.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you don\u2019t need a math PhD to see where this is headed: a society with longer life expectancy and fewer young people to support an aging population is an economic time bomb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government programs that support the social safety net rely on the next generation to pay the bills. However, as national debt skyrockets and interest payments eat away at budgets, those programs look increasingly fragile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The UFC&#039;s Renato Moicano on Bitcoin, Freedom, and the Harsh Truth About Money | People in Crypto\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yoZNWfOYdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what\u2019s the way out? Either a society that\u2019s already sprinting just to stay afloat has to become somehow even more productive, boosting GDP at an unprecedented rate\u2026 or something fundamental has to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano emerged as an outspoken critic of modern economic policies, particularly the inflationary spiral eroding the middle class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m 35 years old, I\u2019ve been working since I am 11,\u201d says Moicano. \u201cI just lose money all the time to inflation. If you have the right mentality, if you don\u2019t gamble, if you don\u2019t drink, if you don\u2019t spend money on parties, if you do everything right, and you keep your money on the bank, you\u2019re still losing, you\u2019re still losing in life, the government is still robbing you. And I got sick fo that. I don\u2019t want the government stealing my money through taxation and inflation. I don\u2019t want a government taking my money and putting it into stuff that I don\u2019t believe in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He warns that unchecked money printing isn\u2019t just bad policy; it\u2019s a wrecking ball for economic stability, widening the wealth gap and consolidating power in the hands of a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI can become UFC champion. And if I don\u2019t invest my money, if I don\u2019t know money, I\u2019m going to lose to inflation, so what\u2019s even the point of working? And if you live in a society that doesn\u2019t see value in storing money, we\u2019ll become a bunch of lazy motherfuckers that don\u2019t want to work. That\u2019s why I keep trying understand and self educate myself, because I don\u2019t want to lose. I have a family. I want to understand how the, how the world works. I\u2019m always on the pursuit of the truth, beauty, and morality. I believe in right and wrong, and I always want to do right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His frustration with government overreach, national debt, and inflation mirrors the sentiments of libertarians, Austrian economists, and Bitcoiners alike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to get worse for the middle class. The super-rich don\u2019t pay taxes; the poor people don\u2019t pay. So the government wants the middle class to foot the bill for everything. They want people poor so those people vote for more handouts, keeping politicians in power.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He sees inflation and reckless spending as a form of generational theft\u2014one that hits young and working-class families the hardest, often before they even realize what\u2019s happening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano draws a direct line between centralized power and its true lifeblood: a populace that feels powerless and is conditioned to believe that their only option is to beg for more state intervention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a cycle straight out of the political playbook\u2014one that both leftists and rightists wield masterfully, keeping citizens dependent while consolidating control.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhy does the government get to enslave the next generation with debt? That\u2019s why young people can\u2019t afford homes\u2014prices are going crazy. And politicians love it because they give handouts to get votes. That\u2019s not capitalism; that\u2019s interventionism. The state always wants to overreach.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This message naturally resonates with Bitcoin advocates worldwide, but Moicano\u2019s fighting talents have helped it reach an audience that might know Bitcoin by name but not by ideology. For Moicano, financial self-defense is just as critical as physical self-defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBitcoin has no top because fiat currency has no bottom,\u201d Moicano declares. \u201cThe system is broken. The only \u2018solution\u2019 governments have is to print more money. Eventually, people will realize bonds aren\u2019t that good, fiat isn\u2019t that stable. America today is still okay, but 10, 20 years from now, it could be like Brazil\u2014a tiny group of super-rich and a massive class of super-poor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inflation, government overreach, reckless debt policies\u2014these all operate in the background, dull and theoretical, until suddenly, a loaf of bread costs ten bucks, and no one can afford rent, let alone a home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moicano\u2019s story shows how physical mastery often parallel intellectual courage. He didn\u2019t arrive at Austrian economics and Bitcoin through a finance degree\u2014he fought his way there, quite literally, accumulating Bitcoin with money earned fighting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his mind, the defense doesn\u2019t stop at protecting your body; it extends to defending your financial future and recognizing when the system is rigged against you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Renato Moicano steps up to the mic in the Octagon, you listen not just because you\u2019ve witnessed him beat a man halfway to death but because whatever comes next is guaranteed to be unfiltered, unpredictable, and, so far, always on the money. 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