The Origins of the Internet and its Impact on Privacy

This chapter reflects on the origins of the internet and its impact on privacy, discussing the mission of cipherpunks to develop a secure peer-to-peer payment system to preserve privacy and limit government control.

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In 2021, high school boys on TikTok were pumping meme coins and discovering (then misapplying) the concept of exponential compounding. Today, with the benefit of hindsight, we can learn a lot about what crypto's rapid rise and fall might mean about money.

Plus, we’re going down the rabbit hole of the competing theories about what money really is: Why do we all agree it has value? What happens if the government keeps making more of it, and is crypto the wrong solution for the right problem?

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Mentioned in the Episode

The Future of Cryptocurrency, via The Economist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rCKo4CBgM&ab_channel=TheEconomist
Narrative Economics by Robert Shiller: https://bookshop.org/a/90396/9780691210261
Mike Green of Simplify Asset Management: https://investresolve.com/podcasts/mike-green-the-fourth-turning-and-reimagining-the-american-dream/
Stephanie Kelton's TED Talk on the Big Myth of Government Deficits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATQ0Yf0Fhc

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