Raising Kids Is a Lot Like Surviving a Bitcoin Bear Market

Raising kids and surviving a Bitcoin bear market turn out to be the same lesson in patience. Scott Sibley has spent six years learning both at once. Scott is the founder of SHAmory and a father of two. Six years ago he built a Bitcoin game for his baby daughter. That baby is now seven, sells her own crafts at Bitcoin conferences, and is being raised inside a homeschool pod of Bitcoin families. In episode 6 of Bitcoin After Us, Tim sits with him on what six years at the intersection of Bitcoin and parenthood actually taught him: why no concept is too hard to break down for a kid, why he's not worried whether his daughters become Bitcoiners, and why a bear market and a sleep regression are the same test of nerve. They also get into homeschooling as a Bitcoin family, raising kids who won't feel entitled to the stack, and Stack the Shelves — his push to get Bitcoin books into classrooms whose families have never touched it. Find Scott at shamory.com and @playshamory. 00:00 Meeting Scott and SHAmory 01:11 A Game Built for a Baby 04:07 Nothing Is Too Hard to Teach a Kid 06:47 A Three-Year-Old Spending Bitcoin 09:16 Kids Areas and the Conference Family 10:19 The Day the First Sale Came In 11:40 Raising a Seven-Year-Old Saleswoman 13:51 The Real Benefit: Growing Up Without Financial Fear 16:42 Homeschooling as a Bitcoin Family 20:30 What Nobody Tells You About Homeschooling 25:50 The Patterns Across Bitcoin Families 28:51 The Mistake Isn't the Kids, It's the Bridge 30:54 When Only One Spouse Is Orange-Pilled 33:51 Not Worried Whether They Become Bitcoiners 36:14 Raising Kids Is Like Surviving a Bear Market 39:25 A Niche of a Niche 43:31 Why Financial Education Isn't Taught Is Criminal 48:05 If We're Right: The World They Inherit 50:30 Raising Kids Who Aren't Entitled to the Stack 52:40 The Hardest Thing to Teach His Own Kids 54:14 Bitcoin After Us: Refusing to Raise Doomers 56:45 Stack the Shelves and Where to Find Scott