NCMT 500-314 -- Bitcoin and Philosophy (1 of 8)

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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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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone, welcome to Nick Lan's 8 session seminar Bitcoin and Philosophy. It's a packed class and lots to talk about so I think I'm going to straightforward give it to Nick to start the seminar. And I'm in the background if you guys have any questions or want to talk and participate in the conversation because I…

• 00:22:23

  Very crudely, but I'll let people bully me about that later. And therefore, even to go even more crudely, and this is something I'm going to retract in a second, there's a sort of idealist possibility here, that he identifies time and being, time and Dasein, everything seems to collapse into some kind…

• 00:39:48

  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kantian fundamentalist, if you don't mind. I mean, it's the language of critique, not the language of metaphysics…

• 00:57:05

  Cool. And yeah, no, I, I, I didn't have a particular comment to make though or anything. I guess I was interested in, yeah, how... Ugh. Ugh. of how this consensus or criterion is produced and maybe thinking about the kinds of algorithmic forms of governance that are coming to the fore in Bitcoin. Yes. So I don't know…

• 01:15:55

  And it really is an attempt to produce a… Okay, okay. Deep. Deep. Okay. And maybe my question at least is does… like in relation to gold standard, right? Because gold standard was always already a very like proto form of humans deciding but in the name of gold or in the name of the explored mining or in the name…

• 01:38:23

  You know, it's simply... That's what the blockchain does. It makes it impossible for you... for me to give you a Bitcoin and then also... I mean, it's... It's impossible to give the same Bitcoin to someone else or in some way to devalue the fact that you now have a 1 21 millionth part of the world Bitcoin stock…

• 01:54:37

  And then from there, you get into quite complicated technical questions about how you actually then go to identify particular Bitcoin accounts and their transactions with real life data. Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart…

• 02:15:13

  remarks we can maybe wrap it up hello and yet my only final remark is to just thank everybody and I hope that there is some sense of direction however and complex and turbulent and and if anyone has online resources of any kind that they think they want to share with people and the relevant and want to bring…