Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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S9 E1
Chris DeRose on the Philosophy of Demoralization
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01:43 Hello party people!
04:45 Trigger warning and Derose’s laws
05:30 How is Chris Derose’s doing these days and how does his shitcoin basket perform?
09:12 Using bitcoin as a unit of account
12:00 We’re living in weird economic times
13:27 Hope vs clarity
13:40 What can you do with BTC?
14:46 Will Chris DeRose make a comeback tour? Does he still have his Pepe cash?
15:22 Ladyboys, S&P 500
20:18 What happened to Murad?
21:00 Is Chris DeRose coming back to Twitter?
26:23 What does Chris DeRose predict is going to happen to Bitcoin in the next 6 months?
29:50 Why is Bitcoin not decentralized enough?
32:20 Decentralization in Chris DeRose’s definition
37:06 How can Bitcoin replace the dollar without blending in first?
41:12 Does the average bitcoiner want Bitcoin to be more decentralized?
44:34 The US-centric comprehension of Bitcoin and rationalizing decentralization
52:58 ASICs and decentralization
57:26 Hard forking Bitcoin
1:01:47 The one true Bitcoin
1:15:10 User verification and who controls Bitcoin
1:19:30 Decentralization is people doing stuff
1:22:00 The Bitcoin totem
1:26:10 Chris DeRose overanalyzing
1:31:41 Hot takes vs critical thinking
1:41:30 Lord of the Flies and the weird nature of the left-right political divide
1:46:50 Why Chris DeRose still loves America
1:50:15 What is on Chris DeRose’s reading list these days?
1:52:44 History and the complimentary ideological extremes
1:57:34 The internet will demoralize all the religions, ideologies and languages
2:00:36 The religion of science
2:05:15 Why did Chris DeRose get into Bitcoin?
2:08:25 Did Chris DeRose get involved in e-gold, ecash, liberty dollar, or any other precursor of Bitcoin?
2:12:21 Silk Road and demoralisation
2:16:20 Mainstream financial institutions are demoralizing themselves
2:17:05 Is Bitcoin still libertarian?
2:21:30 Michael Saylor becoming way too influential
2:26:47 Bitcoin will eat the world
2:33:00 People who program silicon vs people who program carbon
2:35:07 Developers vs marketers
2:41:20 Objective money, gold and bitcoin
2:48:35 Chris DeRose on the Lightning Network
2:51:41 Offering confidence in Bitcoin to podcast listeners
2:57:40 Arguing is a favor that we offer to society
2:59:30 Contention in American society
3:02:50 Connotation vs denotation
3:06:00 The pollution of language
3:08:50 Newsspeak in 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World
3:10:53 The cat didn’t read the book on being a cat, but somehow humans do it
3:11:59 We don’t go to school for education, but for obedience
3:15:11 50-page libertarians and 1000-page libertarians
3:16:30 Bitcoin meetups used to be Socratic seminars, now they’re sermons
3:17:55 Chris DeRose’s Florida meet-up
3:20:07 Bitcoin might just be like Star Wars: commercially successful but spiritually bankrupt
3:21:58 Michael Saylor is the textbook spook
3:24:30 You get paid to leave in this space
3:27:02 Asserting geographic independence
3:30:26 The contention is with the medium, not the content
3:31:28 S9 E2 teaser
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