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
To learn more about our Making Sense of Crypto and Web3 project visit https://web3.lifeitself.us/
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.
To learn about Stephen and his work visit:
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https://twitter.com/smdiehl
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