350. How A Tech Executive Built Nashville's Bitcoin Revolution

Most people trust the system to manage their money. Rod Roudi walked away from tech to build Bitcoin Park and is now redefining financial freedom in Nashville. In this special episode of The Root of All Success, recorded live at The Standard Club in front of the Leadership Society, Jason Duncan sits down with Rod Roudi, co-founder of Bitcoin Park (a mission oriented community campus for Bitcoiners), builders, and freedom fighters. After hosting one meetup that grew from 15 people to 150 in four months, Rod left his safe tech career to bet everything on permissionless money and provable scarcity. Rod breaks down why Bitcoin is "freedom money," how it outperforms gold on divisibility, verifiability, portability, and scarcity, and why merchants should stop paying 3% to Visa when that could go straight to their bottom line instead. This conversation dives into: •The rainy night at Jackalope Brewery that started with 20 people and changed everything •How Bitcoin meetups grew from 15 to 100 to 150 people in just four months •Acquiring Florida Georgia Line's old campus in Hillsboro Village for Bitcoin Park •Why Rod left a safe tech job for a mission-oriented life he could be proud of •Bitcoin 101: Freedom money that preserves future purchasing power better than any asset •The $100 remittance story: How Western Union takes $58 before gangs take the rest •Comparing Bitcoin vs. Gold across 5 metrics: divisibility, acceptability, verifiability, portability, scarcity •Why 21 million Bitcoin is provable scarcity vs. gold's unknown supply •How you can verify the entire Bitcoin blockchain yourself with free open-source software •The magic internet money protocol missing from the internet: Bitcoin •Why your $1.93 Starbucks coffee now costs $3.57 (and Bitcoin fixes this) •The 10,000 Bitcoin pizza story: How 2 pizzas in 2010 now buys a $300k house in Bitcoin •Why merchants lose 3% to credit cards and how Bitcoin returns that to their bottom line •Defining fiat: Printable money by centralized governing bodies with no supply cap •Bitcoin as the money protocol for 8 billion people (you can't invest in SMTP or FTP, but you can own Bitcoin) •Creating an "Orange Zone" in Nashville: Bitcoin-educated community building generational wealth •Senators Hagerty & Blackburn, Governor Lee, and Tennessee's crypto-friendly leadership If you're an entrepreneur tired of losing 3% to payment processors, skeptical about Bitcoin but curious, or ready to preserve your future purchasing power in a world of inflating fiat — this episode will challenge everything you thought you knew about money. 🎧 Watch the full episode now (recorded live!) 👉 Subscribe for more conversations on Bitcoin, financial freedom, and entrepreneurship. Who is Rod Rudy? Rod Rudy is co-founder of Bitcoin Park, a community campus for mission-oriented Bitcoiners, builders, and freedom fighters with locations in Nashville, Tennessee and Austin, Texas. After years as a tech executive, Rod left the corporate world to pursue something more fulfilling and mission-driven after having a nightmare about his legacy. In August 2021, Rod and his friend Mills hosted their first Bitcoin meetup at Jackalope Brewery in Nashville. Within four months, meetups were drawing 150+ people. Bitcoin Park is 80% free and open to the public, hosting meetups on Bitcoin 101, custody, mining, privacy-preserving acquisition, and more. The Park has welcomed Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Governor Bill Lee, ECD Commissioner Stuart McWhorter, and Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. Rod is a father of four kids (ages 7, 5, 4, and 3), wakes up at 4:25am for his venti pike at Starbucks, and is passionate about grassroots freedom-tech adoption and creating an "Orange Zone" in Nashville where communities build generational wealth through Bitcoin. Bitcoin Park Website: www.bitcoinpark.com www.bitcoinpark.com/nashville (join meetups) Bitcoin Park Locations: Nashville, Tennessee Austin, Texas Episode Note: This is Episode 350 of The Root of All Success: the first episode ever recorded live in front of an audience (The Leadership Society at The Standard Club, Nashville). Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Resources Mentioned: What to Fix Before You Exit: www.whattofixbeforeyouexit.com Bank On Yourself: www.therealjasonduncan.com/bankonyourself Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (https://megaphone.fm/adchoices) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices