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The hive mind

8episodes
20first heard, 2021
140most recent, 2024
First said · Ep 20 at 00:31
“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.”
Said now · Ep 94 at 05:45
“What might these things be when I'm thinking about a piece of code in the system that is being challenged for supremacy with the introduction of Bitcoin into the hive mind of humanity.”

The listening path

  1. 20

    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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 94

    Foundation

    Bitcoin replaces belief in authority, state or religious, with an incorruptible ledger whose map is the territory. Humanity's checkpoints of accumulated energy and…

  5. 140

    The One Problem

    The only problem worth solving is how to make yourself as wealthy and future-proof as possible, and Bitcoin, the hardest information ever generated, solves it. Your real…

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