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Rise of the Self-Sovereign Internet with Christian Langalis (WiM226)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

Bitcoin Is Not a Turing Complete Computer

You said earlier that you see urban and Bitcoin as complimentary systems. What is it, I guess, about urban that's doing things Bitcoin cannot do or cannot be done on Bitcoin? Right. It starts to look more and more like a root gold bird machine to try to invent just peer to peer messaging on Bitcoin via the Lightning Network or something. You need to run applications, you just need compute, you need a computer and there's nothing, there's nothing evil about that. There's also just the great irony that all these people still using services that basically treat them as a row in a database.

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