Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:05 NYDIG
00:01:25 The Fourth Layer: Financial
00:04:16 Bitcoin Mining’s Capital Intensity Recruits Large Investors
00:08:04 The Fifth Layer: The Mining Network
00:10:01 Bitcoin Miners as an Early Warning System
00:11:35 Bitcoin Miners as “Motors of Sovereignty”
00:12:55 The First Five Layers: Inertia, Antifragility, and Capital Attraction
00:15:00 “Bitcoin is a Swarm Creature”
00:16:43 Proof of Work as a Thermodynamic Bridge Between Worlds
00:18:54 The Sixth Layer: Spatial
00:20:38 Proof of Work as a Self-Distributing Security Model
00:21:28 Proof of Work Self-Decentralizes Away from Attack Vectors
00:23:26 The Seventh Layer: Temporal
00:24:59 Bitcoin’s Spacetime Parameters: “You Only Get to Play God Once”
00:26:29 What Happens if you Change Gravity?
00:29:29 “Bitcoin is Like the Granite Underlying Manhattan”
00:31:06 The Universal Consequences of Spacetime Constants
00:33:17 “A Shockwave is When You Attack the Air Faster than it Moves”
00:35:05 “Foolish to Risk the Immortality of Bitcoin for Bigger Blocks”
00:36:40 Proof of Stake: A Closed, Controlled, Non-Darwinian System
00:39:50 There Are No Successful Proof of Stake Networks
00:42:11 Central Banks as Proof of Stake Networks
00:44:52 Bitcoin is Both Digital Money and Digital Property
00:45:42 Robert's Outro

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