The Path to Bitcoin

Horns all the way down.

A podcast about Bitcoin, physics and how knowledge gets made. 192 episodes since June 2021.

Latest · Ep 195 · 5 Aug 2026

The Gap

Bitcoin is a machine for remembering, and it works because of one deliberate hole in its memory. The Coldcard entropy failure filled that hole with facts the world had already written down, which turned private keys into explainable objects.

Recent episodes

  1. 195 The Gap
  2. 194 States that Travel
  3. 193 The Locus of Intelligence
  4. 192 The Universe Demands Horns
  5. 191 Why The Search Has To Be Expensive
  6. 190 Time
  7. 189 Gabriel’s Horn: The Shape of Everything
  8. 188 The Exhaust Principle
  9. 187 The Shannon Trap
  10. 186 The Anti-Demon
  11. 185 ABS Ratings = Milkshake NGU
  12. 184 On the Same Page

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