Professor Craig Warmke joined the "Bitcoin Magazine Podcast" to discuss Bitcoin philosophy.Watch This Episode On YouTubeListen To This Episode:...
Philosopher Michel Foucault’s antiauthoritarian thinking offers a provocative lens through which to view the revolution of Bitcoin.Bitcoin recently surpassed the $50,000 mark. The moment was both historic and telling. It was also incredibly sweet. Bitcoin has not only proved doubters like Paul Krugman wrong, it continues to grow in...
Right now, America is heating up. Our mass is collectively shifting and vibrating at a higher and higher rate, as we endure abrasive alterations in our lives. Catalysts in society serve as flames that heat up the environments of people and make changes occur. A lot of this heat is being applied by money right now. There is a large group of people...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a difficult man. Even his name is a mouthful to say. With more layers than a wedding cake, the German philosopher was the human equivalent of quantum theory. As physicist Richard Feynman famously...
While many Austrian economists disagree on various topics regarding the origin of money, the most notable and agreed-upon theory on the origin of money is Carl Menger’s theory of salability. Bitcoin arose in a world that was long past the barter phase. Since bitcoin was never used for barter, it did not face the problems that barter economies had, namely the problem of...
A normie Mario fights Bowser to save Princess Peach; a libertarian Mario builds her an escape hatch.
A kid in Singapore with a neighbor who is cultivating a Japanese Garden is a rarity, though that’s what I was. In Singapore, a tiny island nation, land is scarce and more than 80 percent of the population lives in simple highrises without balconies, let alone gardens. Thus, from early on, the value of scarcity is ingrained in Singaporeans and likely a main...
NLW is joined by three philosophy professors for a discussion of bitcoin, ethics and politics.
The promise of Bitcoin remains intact because its design circumvents the fragile human ego in ways that no other human endeavor ever has. The human ego is a fragile thing. It’s quick to judge, insecure, easily manipulated and it gets attached to things through identification. It holds on to ideas and beliefs at all costs, often against our own interests and despite real...
We’ve been dubbed “Toxic Bitcoin Maximalists” as an attempted insult. We don’t flinch, we wear it as a badge of honor. We make no apologies for our matter- of-factness, our confidence or our meme warfare. You can find us on Twitter, responding to weak arguments against bitcoin (they are all weak) with “Have Fun Staying Poor” rather than attempting to persuade the unserious opponent...
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Bitcoiners have a unique ability to immediately hit it off with other Bitcoiners. This may not sound extraordinary on the surface, but this powerful interpersonal quality of instant connection is a vastly underrated feature of the Bitcoin network. Especially in an increasingly polarized and socially- distanced world. Outside of Bitcoin, the only thing humans seem to agree on lately is that we are deeply...
Pete Campbell: “I have to bring this up to you. Only because I believe … it would be damaging to Sterling Cooper. It has come to my attention, completely by accident, that Donald Draper, is not who he says he is. His real name is Dick Whitman, but Dick Whitman died [in the Korean War] ten years ago. It stands to reason that...
The crypto industry tends to give "cypherpunk" vibes a great deal of lip service without much attention to their real values.
“Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared into the sky, but in the process, he came too close to the sun, which due to the heat melted the wax.”— The Legend Of Icarus...
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”– Henry Ford The continued functioning of the financial system you have lived under for your entire life is dependent on the average person not understanding exactly how it works, and there...
And the inescapable ravage of modern seigniorage…...
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