Bitcoin as an Anti-Authoritarian Force

Episode #7 of our ongoing deep dive into #web3 and #crypto with Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl. This week we’re exploring the thesis that Bitcoin (and crypto more generally) is an anti-authoritarian force and can help undermine tyranny. To view the notes from this episode, references and key concepts, visit: https://web3.lifeitself.us/notes/bitc...

0:00 - Intro
2:25 - Steel manning the anti-authoritarian claim
7:10 - Examples of blockchain technology being used in this way
14:14 - Evaluating the claim
21:23 - Malign uses of crypto outnumber the benign
28:02 - Is Bitcoin as discrete as people think?
35:16 - The need to cash out bitcoin
42:06 - Crypto and shadow the shadow banking economy
47:21 - The Fallacy of Composition
51:50 - Concluding remarks

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Stephen Diehl is a software engineer, writer and Web3 expert. He has written many articles about the topic on his blog at stephendiehl.com and has been featured in major news outlets and podcasts.

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