Episode #194 – States that Travel
Being early and being wrong are the same position, and the original Bitcoin thesis, the one that expected people to figure it out quickly, was 90 percent wrong. Out of that error c
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 #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 #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 #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,