Critical Insights on Bitcoin's Layer One Network and Business Support Services

This chapter delves into the complexities of integrating multiple advanced features into the Bitcoin blockchain, highlighting the risks of creating vulnerabilities. It also features an advertisement break promoting services for small businesses and investment advice.

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Anil Patel talks about his new book, The Bitcoin Handbook. There are many different fields of study Bitcoin touches that it can be difficult for people to grasp all the complexity in harmonizing concepts that are happening on this protocol. In this interview, Anil went on an intellectual journey simplifying and stitching it all together.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:15 - What was Anil trying to accomplish with the book?

06:59 - Of all the mental models and paradoxes mentioned in the book, what does Anil find the most profound?

12:22 - What is Jevon's Paradox?

23:39 - Network Effects.

29:52 - Reflexivity and how it applies to Bitcoin.

32:56 - Why are the laws of Thermodynamics important?

38:25 - Gall's Law.

43:44 - What is the intransigent minority and why is it important

53:31 - What is something the Bitcoin community could do better?

57:50 - Anil's favorite books.

01:00:09 - Why is it hard to be a Bitcoiner?

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

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Anil's Twitter.
Anil's book, The Bitcoin Handbook.
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley.
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil.

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