NCMT 500-314 -- Bitcoin and Philosophy (2 of 8)

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• 00:00:00

  Okay. We're live now. Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining Nick Land's Bitcoin and Philosophy Session 2. I'm going to stop talking and pass it on to Nick to begin the seminar. Go ahead, Nick. You're on. Okay, great. Hi, everybody. I hope people have seen the various bits and pieces that have been posted in the whatever…

• 00:22:13

  You know, we could do a lot of things with this. And so it seems to me, while publicly the state has to say, look, this thing is basically a problem, and it's a threat to the public sphere, there is this large piece of political machinery that is deliberately outside the public sphere, and the fact that we now have…

• 00:38:30

  can redeem this and get your gold back from the warehouse. So that's the most simple step in this. But if you then take the next step and it says on that bit of paper, and whatever kind of protections have taken place, I mean we're into the double spending problem here immediately but I'll have to bracket that off. If…

• 00:59:28

  I mean, maybe they need to be teased apart a little bit. I totally agree. I think this, let me just go over what I think you guys have just said and try and hold onto it a little bit. So to go back from Jake's thing back to Mo's, for sure, I think this reference to time violation is absolutely fantastically helpful…

• 01:18:43

  it is electricity is super important in this right now as it stands I was just thinking I would imagine more so now of course and continually more so it's an issue but in that documentary you just mentioned they said that there was a point at which there were a lot of people who were they were saying that there…

• 01:43:07

  And the way that they're going to take on it and the particular problems that they find most compelling, that would be a helpful thing all round. I think it would be interesting to everybody's classmates to get a sense of what people's interests are and I think it would be helpful for that person to just get a kind…

• 02:03:55

  Well, gold is in theory infinitely divisible. Right, but Bitcoins are a practice. Yeah, Bitcoin, as in all of these things, is super gold. You know, I mean, everyone treats gold as, well, it's a very, very expensive thing. It's a very expensive thing. It's a very expensive thing. It's a very expensive thing. It's…

• 02:17:46

  Thank you, Nick. MALE SPEAKER 1 AND MALE SPEAKER 2 JOHN MUELLER JR.: OK, have a great week, everyone. MALE SPEAKER 1 AND MALE SPEAKER 2 JOHN MUELLER JR.: You too, bye.