“And I am calling it the hive mind of humanity, the idea that we can come together and communicate in a 100% truthful environment because the protocol dictates that every transaction, every piece of information, which is the price of things, all of that has to be true because of the way that the Bitcoin protocol operates. In doing that, we unlock a superpower that we didn't know that we had or that humans didn't have access to before.”
The hive mind
“When I say we, again it's the extended order, the collective hive mind of people that generate explanatory knowledge.”
The listening path
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The Emergence of the Hive Mind
Bitcoin guarantees that every transaction and price on its ledger is true, which frees the energy people spend verifying information. That freed energy goes to unlocking…
- 64
Bitcoin & the Outer Wall
The 21 million cap is the outer wall that finally encloses the extended order. Like the enclosure that turned single cells into organisms, it defines what's inside, and…
- 92
The Hive Brain
Once opinions must be backed with sats, Bitcoin turns the extended order into a hive mind that prices where energy and attention should go next. The Joe Rogan, Peter…
- 97
The Desert of the Real
A small early Bitcoin position, held by simply surviving, is a more reliable path to controlling future energy than building or shipping anything. Like a pyramid's…
- 196
What Wealth Is
Most people misjudge Bitcoin because they have never been given a working definition of wealth. David Deutsch's is the set of transformations you could perform without…
In the show’s words
It's about how Bitcoin is updating the software that society runs on, that human beings run on.
Ep 20 · 01:02
The thesis is the Bitcoin is updating human beings by enabling the hive mind to grow and more efficient.
Ep 20 · 02:59