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Bitcoin and Cryptosovereignty with Erik Cason (WiM293)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Dark Abyss of Bitcoin

Heidegger described the dark abyss that we would go into before we got into utter darkness and then you would see the small lights start to grow. Do you think that is a description of that? Is that the progression into the abyss? And then maybe Bitcoin is the light that's shining there? I think so, he says. We can have Bitcoin in a radically different worldview where, you know, we get this new form of capitalism that frees everybody. They're self-solving to your crossbow. It's great. Or we get central bank digital currencies, global pay and opticon. It is a boot stomping on a human face. To be clear, that's

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