The "What is Money?" Show

Bitcoin: The Portal Between the Digital and Physical Worlds - SoftWar Explained Part 2 (WiM554)

Episode Summary

Lucas and Grant of “Bitcoin Study Sessions” join me to explore the similarities between Bitcoin and black holes, why Bitcoin is digital 1776, the domestication of animals and humans, the magic of Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment, the importance of path dependence, and how Bitcoin is a bidirectional portal linking the real and virtual worlds. Lucas and Grant of “Bitcoin Study Sessions” research and teach about canonical Bitcoin literature like Jason Lowery’s “SoftWar” and “Broken Money” by Lyn Alden.

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0:00 - WiM Episode Trailer

1:22 - Gabriel’s Horn Explained (Bitcoin as a Black Hole)

8:39 - Bitcoin is Digital 1776

13:53 - Bitcoin and the Sovereign Individual

24:26 - The Farm at Okefenokee

25:36 - Heart & Soil Supplements

26:36 - Domestication of Animals and Humans

37:33 - The Domestication Feedback Loop

44:53 - Bitcoin: Freedom In Cyberspace

51:49 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing

52:41 - Mine Bitcoin with Blockware Solutions

54:03 - How Bitcoin Frees Us from Digital Slavery

1:11:38 - The Stability of the State

1:18:50 - On-Ramp Bitcoin Custody

1:20:12 - NetSuite: Business Software

1:21:29 - What is Meta Cognition? 

1:33:34 - The Power of Abstraction

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1:41:23 - Buy Bitcoin with Coinbits

1:42:50 - Money: The Trust Minimized Asset

1:57:56 - Bitcoin as the “World Computer”

2:13:35 - The Magic of the Difficulty Adjustment

2:19:47 - Nostr: Digital Free Speech

2:22:10 - Can We Recreate Decentralization? (Path Dependence)

2:27:24 - Bitcoin is a Bidirectional Portal Linking the Real and Virtual

2:34:28 - Bitcoin: P2P Cash?

2:37:17 - “There is No Spoon”

 

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