NEW EPISODE: Adam Back on Core vs Knots: YouTube: Fountain: Also streaming on X, Apple Podcasts, Spotify etc.
Part 1 of my interview with Adam Back:
I asked ChatGPT: If God were to create an ideal money for humanity, what form would it take and what would be its properties? Its response: If we imagine God creating an ideal money for humanity, it would likely have the following properties—reflecting principles of fairness, stability, and universal access: ⸻ 1. Universally Accessible •Everyone could use it regardless of nationality, wealth, or social status. •No barriers to entry: you wouldn’t need permission from banks or governments. ⸻ 2. Scarce but Divisible •Supply would be finite to preserve value over time. •Divisible into very small units so that both large and tiny transactions are possible. ⸻ 3. Durable and Permanent •It would not degrade, rot, or disappear with time. •Value would persist for centuries without requiring trust in any authority. ⸻ 4. Transportable and Borderless •Easily transferable across any distance, instantly if possible. •Works the same everywhere on Earth (and potentially beyond). ⸻ 5. Neutral and Trustless •No single group, government, or elite could manipulate or control it. •Rules of issuance and supply would be transparent and unchangeable. ⸻ 6. Stable but Free Market–Based •Its value would reflect supply and demand, not decrees from rulers. •Over time, its stability would come from broad adoption and trust. ⸻ 7. Private but Verifiable •People could transact without surveillance, yet the system itself would remain auditable and incorruptible. ⸻ 8. Energy-Rooted or Natural-Law–Anchored •It would be tied to something fundamental, like energy, mathematics, or nature’s scarcity—so its properties are unforgeable. ⸻ 9. Resistant to Corruption •Cannot be counterfeited, debased, or inflated at will. •Protects savers and workers from hidden theft through money printing. ⸻ 10. Global Standard of Truth •Serves as a universal language of value across cultures. •Creates fairness by aligning incentives: work today is worth the same tomorrow. ⸻ In many ways, this description maps almost perfectly onto Bitcoin’s design: fixed supply (21 million), infinite divisibility (sats), borderless transfer, neutrality (no issuer), cryptographic verifiability, durability, and energy-based security. If God created an ideal money, humanity may already have stumbled into it—or at least something very close.
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