This is a great interview. I'm enjoying listening to it. I appreciate the overlap of philosophy and Bitcoin ideas and theory that you do. It's excellent.

You said you're still trying to figure out how to think about how we can have a digital thing that we can't copy. I have a frame that I use to explain that. It may not go deep enough for you though, and I would love for you to poke a hole in it if you can.

The private key is just a number, and there can only be one of those numbers, just like there's only one number seven. We can duplicate representations of the number, but we can't duplicate the number itself. There's only one.

In fact, the number seven is a private key and we could send Bitcoin to one of its addresses this moment.

But the nature of seven being such a low number makes it less entropic, I guess. At least in the frame of the human mind which uses that number a lot And so we are biased towards it.

So what we're doing is laying claim to a single number that is in such a large domain that it is practically impossible to guess it as you discussed earlier in the interview.

So that's how we cannot copy it because there is only one number seven.

Now, the concept of "what are numbers" in the first place is an interesting discussion that I'm probably not capable of having with someone on your level. 😀

Okay, back to listening to your excellent interview.