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Bitcoin and Cryptosovereignty with Erik Cason (WiM293)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Importance of Secrecy in Bitcoin

Bitcoin is unifying energy and subjective choice together along with like... Like the ability to retain a secret and the choice of unveiling that as this like presentation of something. And so to me when we say Bitcoin is money, what's really happening is it's gathering together these very important concepts in a unique way that makes it the most money that a thing could be. That's a super interesting aperture to look at Bitcoin through. I've never thought of it about the importance of secrecy. Because again, back to like war times and fighting, like that's almost also premised on secrecy, hence the emergence of cryptography. But it's like Bitcoin's sort of bending this ontological superpower we have

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