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Bitcoin Mining on the Ocean with Nathan and Michael (WiM239)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Impact of Mastering the Ocean's Energy

I describe this a lot as the recurrent self-deception of humanity. People keep thinking we can create new slips of paper over here or equivalent database entries and that somehow creates more real goods and services in the real world. It's so fucking stupid. If you're hungry, you don't go print a bunch of sheets of paper and say I made more money and now I can buy sandwiches. You make more sandwiches, right? But I guess it's also an opportunity to educate people about the nature of all this stuff. Okay, the impact on humanity that mastering the ocean's energy leads to what do you mean by that? This sounds very important. So I'll kick it off and

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