Landian Philosophy of Bitcoin 10 20 Cryptocurrency as Critique

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane open-web-talk approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: Landian Bitcoin. Source: video original (.mp4).

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  Okay. Okay. There's a new link. Great. Okay. So for anyone who's watching this, the whole thing sort of changed because my stream labs wouldn't connect, so we had to do a different link. So this first probably five minutes is going to be me calibrating it all, so I'll try to put a timestamp in to rectify that. So…

• 00:14:56

  They are mere, they are simply forms which are beholden to the way in which man perceives the sensible world. And so they aren't of that entire, immanent, flat horizontal network of machinism itself. They are simply beholden to man. So in that way, what's happening in the terms of the development of something absolute…

• 00:44:38

  is a unit of a system and a unit of a system is a unit of a system the system itself is the being of such beings the ultimate criterion of credible existence in the end the blockchain cannot be subordinated to any principle of reality whatsoever that it does not authorize itself um there's a really there's a lot going…

• 01:00:54

  The value of one BTC equals one BTC. And now you can sort of begin to see why that's so important, right? Because. You think of dollars, one dollar equals one dollar, which is backed by something in God we trust is also written on the notes. But it's also reliant on that third party infrastructure. One BTC equals…

• 01:12:05

  So, the outside is already in us. I mean, I'm pointing to my mind, but that doesn't make any sense in terms of representation. The outside is already in us. So, I think the neo-rationalist question is not answered there, but there's a certain amount of tools and functionality that one can use there to open…

• 01:22:18

  This notion that Lan brings forward about the, a demonstrated application of computational power, is in itself almost a fealty, a loyalty to the system, to the value system itself. To the extent that you don't need trust is to the extent that you are, you've got skin in the game, or the computation, you know…

• 01:34:42

  Bitcoin solves the problem of Kantian time and how we can correlate the time of the outside and the inside. The only thing which isn't internal to time is time itself. So how do we focus on the internal outside which we always seek to understand? And by doing that, Bitcoin immanentizes the, the algorithmically…

• 01:53:28

  so the elimination of the need for trust in financial systems brought about by the blockchain is a pathway to the obsolescence of the human I mean that's the yeah that yeah because trust is trust is a human notion trustlessness is is inherently machinic because trustlessness is the implication of a of a of a some form…