Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.
00:00:00 - Episode Trailer
00:01:06 - Swan Bitcoin
00:05:42 - Bitcoin like a cruise missile
00:06:07 - Holding high ground behind a wall of encrypted energy
00:06:27 - Crypto Bank is strongest, fastest, smartest financial entity in the world
00:08:07 - Impact of 24/7 Operations ( 35 hours to 168 hours per week)
Highest bandwidth of any asset. The Apex Asset.
00:08:47 - Dangers of fighting the Cyber Swarm
00:10:03 - Strength of the Highest Common Denominator
00:10:32 - Virtues of Hodling & Benefits of Joining the Network
00:12:27 - Inverting the asymmetry from fragility to vitality
00:12:43 - Herd immunity
00:13:08 - The Parable of the Lazy Lions
00:13:46 - Destroying Crypto Networks by hobbling transaction fees
00:14:47 - Dangers of Socialism in Competition for Capital & Products
00:16:33 - Interest rates & thermodynamics
00:17:43 - Insanity of negative interest
00:19:23 - Bitcoin as auto-immune response to global crisis
00:21:45 - Inevitable technology driven by toxic inflation
00:22:47 - Impact of Pandemic Crisis & Acceleration
00:23:36 - The Currency War
00:25:01 - Bitcoin as a Store of Value
00:25:36 - $250 Trillion in Bonds, Equity, Metals, Property
00:26:03 - Challenges to Storing Value in Real Estate
00:26:47 - Challenges to Storing Value in Bonds
00:27:58 - Challenges to Storing Value in Equity
00:30:25 - Bitcoin vs. Equity
Analogy to Plankton as the Base Layer of Ecosystem
00:32:48 - Virtues of Simplicity
00:34:48 - Proper mission of a company
00:35:48 - Preserving energy for a century
00:36:15 - Via Negativa & Ideal Design
00:37:46 - Success without Transactions
00:39:12 - Intelligence built into Google
00:40:34 - Impact of a century on stores of value
00:42:20 - Crypto POW is the ideal theoretical solution
00:42:58 - Criticality of the Maximalists & Religious Conviction
00:44:29 - Institutional Longevity
00:45:46 - Keepers of the Flame – Altars & Chapels in Bitcoin
00:46:53 - Strength of Gods in Fantasy Genre
00:47:39 - Feeding the Fire of Crypto Network (Miners & Nodes)
00:48:47 - Challenges of Novel Crypto Networks & Altcoins
00:49:24 - Values of Maximalists
00:50:53 - Crypto Networks – A path to immortality
Bitcoin - “The pursuit of immortal life”
00:51:11 - Projecting values thru time
00:53:03 - Bitcoin as a Higher Truth
00:53:58 - A religion for those that worship the laws of science & math
00:54:09 - The moral & intellectual hazards of short time horizons
00:55:47 - Virtues of taking the Long View
00:56:48 - What is required to store value 100 years? 1000 years?
00:57:21 - Economics as a Science
00:58:03 - Importance of Isaac Newton
00:58:19 - Robert's Outro
01:31:27 - End
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