Episode #191 – Why The Search Has To Be Expensive
P versus NP is the unproven conjecture that finding solutions is genuinely harder than checking them. This episode argues the same cost asymmetry runs through every act of knowl
Episode #190 – Time
Somewhere in the world a person has either lost their private keys or has chosen to take them to the grave, and a fixed quantity of Bitcoin will never move again. The surface an
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.