NCMT 500-314 -- Bitcoin and Philosophy (3 of 8)

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane unclear 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, we're live. Hello and welcome to Nick Land's Bitcoin and Philosophy Session 3 of 8. Nick, you're on and you can take over. Okay, cool. So there's lots of treasure building up in our classroom thing, which I'm assuming people have seen. I've been trying to get a grip on what the most solid common themes coming…

• 00:28:53

  And obviously, all of this actual machinery is coming together to do with hash functions, timestamps, the proof of work system is coming up in the next section. So this is the actual machinery that is producing the temporality of the Bitcoin, the hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear…

• 00:52:25

  Or in like a completely, completely different example, you know, the airstrike versus going through the process of getting to know Kurtz and healing at the end of Apocalypse Now. The airstrike is, I mean, almighty, almighty. It's the example par excellence of a transcendent intervention, comes down, boom, you know…

• 01:15:50

  I'm not even sure what would be meant by this word, but there's something inherently democratic in Bitcoin in the sense that anyone can do it or... I'm not sure. It's... It's a position that's a kind of weird, kind of left-libertarian position. But... On the other side, as you say, it seems quite clear that... Now…

• 01:34:36

  Because I think that it diffuses a certain amount of resistance at an early stage. I guess I can't help thinking as well, just back to that Delanda paper that Jason reminded me of. And there is this real linking of, yes, technological concerns to game theory and optimization of incentives. However, then there's many…

• 01:56:20

  Like, if I can just, you know, more specifically address the figures that you were using here, Mois, is like if you say we could stop the egg-splatting, well, if the egg-splatting is our model, our figure or image, then we could stop the egg-splatting. Right. So if we can stop the egg-splatting, and we can stop…

• 02:19:02

  But, like... But we all know how important graphic cards are to sort of, like, the Bitcoin mining, right? And, you know what I mean? There's this other equivalency between sort of, like, the digital image economy and then Bitcoin, right? Because it's like... It's like if it's more profitable to run Photoshop, this…

• 02:39:37

  Okay, I'm going to post that too. Okay, thank you everyone. Okay. I'm going to stop the broadcast and say goodbye. Yes, have a great week everybody. Bye. Bye Laura. Thank you. Bye everyone. Bye. Bye. Later. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.