Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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S9 E6
Ben Arc on Anarchism's Left Wing Origins
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01:41 Introduction
03:56 Nostr social network & Schnorr signatures
05:52 The left-wing origins of anarchism and libertarianism
07:56 The limits of liberty and property
08:55 Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and libertarianism
12:35 From corporations to DAOs or cooperatives
17:30 Socialism, state control, and the means of production
19:36 The NHS was originally an anarchist society
21:30 Free markets and successful cooperatives
22:30 Cooperatives and self-interest
26:10 How would cooperatives work differently from publicly-traded companies?
31:59 What is anarchism today?
37:55 First principles (don’t kill, don’t steal)
40:40 Free markets and making cooperatives work (Wikipedia, Linux)
44:20 Production automation and human employment
45:00 Keynes’ buffering approach
46:46 The criticism of anarcho-capitalism
47:40 Bitcoin’s role in changing the way in which we produce
49:30 East India company vs 2008’s big bank bailout
50:35 When is state intervention and monopoly desirable?
52:00 When states become unnecessary
55:40 Big government becomes corrupt
59:35 A voluntaryist post-taxation society
1:04:11 Taxes and alienation
1:08:40 Anarcho syndicalism in Northern Syria
1:10:36 Opting out from politics with Bitcoin
1:14:56 Anarchism is democracy from the ground up
1:20:00 Self-interest, rationality and human behavior
1:22:00 Bitcoin being used as legal tender in El Salvador
1:35:30 Bottom-up bitcoin adoption and the history of El Salvador
1:45:00 The apolitical nature of Bitcoin is the ultimate feature
1:48:00 State-funded universities and their merits in development
1:50:05 There’s not enough people building tools for Bitcoin
1:51:30 People with polar opposite political views working on Bitcoin without caring about their differences
1:55:55 Bitcoin banks
2:01:59 Why Ethereum 2.0 sucks
2:06:40 Drivechains (BIP 300) and Hivemind
2:09:45 Bitcoin conferences in Europe vs the USA
2:10:14 Floyd Mayweather and his NFTs
2:11:30 Hacking spaces at conferences
2:13:40 Germany has the highest amount of Bitcoin nodes per capita
2:16:00 Coding for LNBits
2:18:20 Follow Ben Arc at @arcbtc on Twitter and GitHub
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