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Bram Kanstein is a creative entrepreneur and the host of Bitcoin for Millennials, exploring Bitcoin not as a trade, but as essential savings technology and a rational opt-out from a failing fiat money system.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro: everything digital can be copied
01:30 - Money is a ruler
04:21 - Why the machine economy needs a fixed ruler
05:20 - Property 1: it gives the digital world a clock
07:12 - Property 2: its creation is tethered to energy
10:49 - Property 3: the first digital thing that can be yours
12:07 - Property 4: it moves anywhere, for anyone or anything
13:37 - Property 5: it can't be banned, it's an idea
14:45 - Property 6: the map is the territory, anyone can audit it
18:05 - Property 7: no center, no closing hours, no bouncer
19:42 - Property 8: it is nobody's promise
21:56 - The agentic economy needs its gold layer
22:32 - What has value when everything can be copied
ℹ️ EPISODE SUMMARY
Bram Kanstein discusses what still has value when AI can copy everything digital. He starts with the kilogram, a metal cylinder in a vault near Paris that drifted until it was tied to a constant in 2019. Money never got that moment: the dollar has lost more than 95 percent of its purchasing power since 1913. He walks through eight properties that tie Bitcoin to the two things AI can't copy, energy and time. Dollars can be the medium, but the machine economy needs a ruler that doesn't move.
