Bozosozo

Natalie Smolenski joins me to discuss her paper, 'Toward an Anthropological Theory of Money.' We talk about the relationship between anthropologists and economists, the difference between social institutions and social technology, and the anthropological significance of Bitcoin.  Natalie Smolenski is an author, Bitcoin entrepreneur, and theoretical anthropologist. She is the founder of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation.

I had an amazing time in Switzerland a while back. As I reflect on it, one of the themes I heard over and over from friends living there (non swiss), is that it is a lonely place, hard to make real connections with people etc... This is not something I have heard from friends living in other countries (as foreigners). I am sure its true in many places but in #Switzerland it was 100℅ of my admittedly small sample size. What gives? #Zurich #Geneva #CH #Swiss #Friends #Community #Meetup

"civilization advances via specialization of work; specialization enables greater efficiency. But over many generations, humans outsource more and more aspects of their lives to third party specialists... and today we live in a society where very few humans are actually capable of surviving without a massive network of trusted third parties. This creates a huge systemic risk."

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Softwar Thesis Review

A critique of Jason Lowery's thesis on proof of work systems and "bitpower."

"It takes ~40,000 kilowatt-hours to mint a block, yet this power can't overcome a few lines of code being run on a 4 watt Raspberry Pi." -Lopp-

If you known anything about these hashtags and what they have in common hit me up! #pendletoncounty #WestVirginia #WV #Franklin #SpruceKnob #senecarocks #pikeknob #PendletonRocks #TreasureMountainFestival #purplefiddle #futuregenerations #smokehole #ExperienceLearning #swilldog

Who will be in Geneva, Switzerland during the last week of April or first week of May? I am visiting and would be happy to buy the first round! #Geneva #Switzerland #CH #Grownostr #Bitcoin #Plebchain #Meetup

Porn has always been bad cause trafficking is real. But AI porn seems like a moral loophole cause you know its 100℅ built on the formerly trafficked right? (No Catholics need reply).