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Brandon Quittem: Bitcoin Culture Wars and The Bitcoin-Fungi Analogy
Citizen Bitcoin
English - April 12, 2019 17:40 - 1 hour - 187 MB - ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsTechnology Business bitcoin crypto cryptocurrency cryptoassets blockchain economics society technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Brandon Quittem burst onto the bitcoin scene like a mushroom breaking through three inches of asphalt when he published the first part of his bitcoin-fungi analogy in December 2018. I love biology and nature in general, and have a particular interest in mushrooms and fungi - they are incredibly interesting lifeforms - and I enjoy foraging for morels in the springtime. So Brandon was toward the top of my list of bitcoiners to talk to when I started doing these interview episodes. In this one Brandon and I start of with some talk about this Faketoshi/Hodlonaut mess and a piece about Bitcoin culture wars that Brandon published a couple months ago. We talk about potential future culture wars around privacy and fungibility vs chain transparency for supply verification and about the declining subsidy and transition to a fee market to support network security. Then we dig into the mycelium and mushroom analogy and Brandon gives us a preview of the upcoming third and final part of the series.
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Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek
Links from the show:
Craig Wright Threatens Libel Suit In Letter to Bitcoiner, Demands Apology
Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) — Part 1 / 3
Bitcoin is a Social Creature (Mushroom) — Part 2/3
Audio reading of Bitcoin is a Social Creature (Mushroom) by Guy Swann of The Cryptoconomy podcast