The Path to Bitcoin

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Bitcoin Podcast

  1. 10月14日

    Episode #196 – What Wealth Is

    Most people misjudge Bitcoin because they have never been given a working definition of wealth. David Deutsch's is the set of transformations you could perform without generating new knowledge, and it explains why a million dollars on a deserted island buys almost nothing, why no fortune in 1924 could buy a cure that didn't exist yet, and why holding a fixed share of a ledger gets more valuable as other people solve problems.

  2. 8月5日

    Episode #195 – The Gap

    Bitcoin is a machine for remembering, and it works because of one deliberate hole in its memory. The Coldcard entropy failure filled that hole with facts the world had already written down somewhere, which turned a private key into an explainable object and cost people hundreds of millions of dollar

  3. 7月29日

    Episode #194 – States that Travel

    Being early and being wrong are the same position, and the original Bitcoin thesis, the one that expected people to figure it out quickly, was 90 percent wrong. Out of that error comes a working definition of value, and underneath it a definition of knowledge: arrangements that keep their shape as t

  4. 5月21日

    Episode #193 – The Locus of Intelligence

    The intelligent party in a conversation with a frontier model is not the model. Both the people building these systems and the people warning against them assume otherwise, and that shared assumption is the same error the nineteenth century made about gold once the telegraph arrived: mistaking the part of the work a new technology does for the whole of it. Intelligence turns out to be a property of a loop rather than of a system, and the loop only produces knowledge when something inside it pays the constraint.

  5. 5月15日

    Episode #192 – The Universe Demands Horns

    A persistent knowledge structure can only take one shape. Information is physical, verification is asymmetric, and those two facts force a Gabriel's horn topology on anything that wants to keep growing. The interesting move is to run the same test against artificial intelligence, since most of what the frontier labs are shipping is shaped like a cylinder dressed as a horn.

  6. 5月11日

    Episode #191 – Why The Search Has To Be Expensive

    P versus NP is the unproven conjecture that finding solutions is genuinely harder than checking them. This episode argues the same cost asymmetry runs through every act of knowledge generation in the universe, from Einstein deriving E equals MC squared to a Bitcoin miner finding a valid nonce, and that Bitcoin is the cleanest engineered case humans have ever built.

  7. 5月8日

    Episode #190 – Time

    Somewhere in the world a person has either lost their private keys or has chosen to take them to the grave, and a fixed quantity of Bitcoin will never move again. The surface answer is that the holder gave up purchasing power. This episode argues that what they actually gave up, in a strict physical sense, was time, and that the *chronometric identity* developed across the last several episodes lets us say that without metaphor.

  8. 4月23日

    Episode #189 – Gabriel’s Horn: The Shape of Everything

    In 1641, Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, rotated the curve y = 1/x around the horizontal axis and obtained a shape whose interior volume converges to π while its surface area diverges to infinity. Mathematicians of the day called the result an abomination. This episode argues that *Gab

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Bitcoin Podcast

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  • 創作者
    Anon
  • 活躍年代
    2021年 - 2026年
  • 集數
    194
  • 年齡分級
    兒少不宜
  • 節目網站
    The Path to Bitcoin

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