Episode #189 – Gabriel’s Horn: The Shape of Everything
In 1641, Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, rotated the curve y = 1/x around the horizontal axis and obtained a shape whose interior volume converges to π while its sur
Episode #188 – The Exhaust Principle
In 1973, Jacob Bekenstein showed that a black hole’s entropy is proportional to its surface area. The result has been treated as a paradox for fifty years. This episode pr
Episode #187 – The Shannon Trap
In 1948 Claude Shannon formalised information theory by excluding meaning from the math, a move that was correct for his engineering problem and costly once the field adopted his m
Episode #186 – The Anti-Demon
Bitcoin as Anti-Demon: proof of work pays thermodynamic cost upfront, produces durable knowledge, and inverts Maxwell’s century-old paradox. K=IC² explained.
Episode #185 – ABS Ratings = Milkshake NGU
Episode #185 | Published February 26, 2026 A lender took a pool of bitcoin-collateralized loans, packaged the pool into an asset-backed security, sold roughly $188 million of bonds
Episode #184 – On the Same Page
Two independent research teams arrive at the same conclusion: Bitcoin blocks are quantized time. How K=IC2 reframes the bitcoin thesis through the physics of information, constrain
Episode #183 – Capital in the 22nd Century
A response to the paper Capital in the 22nd Century. The paper argues AI will create permanent techno-feudalism. Its starting assumptions are profoundly wrong. Wealth is not a stoc
Episode #182 – Kabuki Theatre
The financial system is Kabuki Theater. AI content floods the internet while nobody can tell real from fake. Bitcoin bridges physical cost to digital information. The reverse repo,
Episode #181 – Fermi’s Folly
Episode 181 reframes Fermi's Paradox through information theory, constraint quality, and the bitcoin thesis in an age of synthetic abundance.
Episode #180 – Gradients Are Everywhere
This episode explains how monetary gradients drive capital from trust-heavy systems toward verification-heavy systems, reinforcing the long-term bitcoin thesis.