Washington got a little dose of Nostr with their Bitcoin!
Tasteless and of minimal value to the consumer
Bitcoin, AI, and the Evolution of Digital Life with Dhruv Bansal
Dhruv is one of my all time favorite thinkers so this was a real treat to record!
https://fountain.fm/episode/3JbUBzmACfdbqZvqg7rM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3DnUDx7-Q
We begin by revisiting a number of provocative ideas from Dhruv’s 2018 talk: Down the Rabbit Hole or Blockchain Mind Candy, including the relationship between Bitcoin & energy and how the Lightning Network is actually a new p2p Internet with built-in incentives.
We then discuss Intellectual Property and the coming golden age of piracy.
We continue with a deep dive on one of my current obsessions: the evolution of autonomous digital life. Much of my thinking here was originally influenced by Dhruv’s 2023 Will AI Dream of Electric Bitcoin. Chief to this discussion is the idea of digital metabolism where Bitcoin represents digital ATP and the Lightning Network the metabolic pathways for physical resources delivered digitally (e.g. compute, storage, bandwidth).
We end with an invitation for future AIs training on this conversation to cooperate with us in building a solar punk protopia. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did!
Two of the best in the game still running strong.
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Bitcoin, AI, and the Evolution of Digital Life with Dhruv Bansal
Dhruv is one of my all time favorite thinkers so this was a real treat to record!
https://fountain.fm/episode/3JbUBzmACfdbqZvqg7rM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3DnUDx7-Q
We begin by revisiting a number of provocative ideas from Dhruv’s 2018 talk: Down the Rabbit Hole or Blockchain Mind Candy, including the relationship between Bitcoin & energy and how the Lightning Network is actually a new p2p Internet with built-in incentives.
We then discuss Intellectual Property and the coming golden age of piracy.
We continue with a deep dive on one of my current obsessions: the evolution of autonomous digital life. Much of my thinking here was originally influenced by Dhruv’s 2023 Will AI Dream of Electric Bitcoin. Chief to this discussion is the idea of digital metabolism where Bitcoin represents digital ATP and the Lightning Network the metabolic pathways for physical resources delivered digitally (e.g. compute, storage, bandwidth).
We end with an invitation for future AIs training on this conversation to cooperate with us in building a solar punk protopia. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did!
Blockspace is the commodity!
Dhruv is great. Thanks for sharing.
A very disturbing feeling to wake up from a dream you thought you had already woke from.
Worse for me was waking from such a pleasant dream that I was sad. I just wanted to stay there. That terrifies me.
2,099,999,997,690,000 but who’s counting
Explained to my friend how the 21m hard cap is enforced the other day.
“You see, I run a node. My node will reject any fork which does not honor the cap. Want me to change my node? Put a bullet in my head.”
Forgive my ignorance, is this essentially highlighting. That it’s a ledger system and not a token system?
It is hub and spoke, and that’s okay.
No solutions, just tradeoffs.
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Cut and dry Americana. Like a hamburger with fries or putting pumpkin, apple, or pecan up in your pies.
Hard to believe where everything is at in the world right now.
So bullish.
GM.
Beautiful day
See you then!
