Hermitix Landian Philosophy of Bitcoin - 0.01
May 30, 2021
This podcast explores the Landian philosophy of Bitcoin, covering topics such as Kantian critique, the basics of Bitcoin technology, and the overlap between Bitcoin and critique. It delves into the concept of the blockchain, perception and representation, time and space, cryptography, AI's value system, tokenization, and the relationship between popularity and valuation.
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Crypto Current As Philosophical Work
- Land's Crypto Current weaves Kant, Deleuze/Guattari, Heidegger and Austrian economics to read Bitcoin philosophically.
- The essay treats Bitcoin not just as tech but as a critical intervention about time, value, and the transcendental.
Trustless Ownership Through Decentralization
- Bitcoin removes the need for trusted third parties by using decentralized consensus and public-key cryptography.
- That decentralization reframes value as directly owned by holders rather than represented by institutional symbols.
On-Chain Is What Happened
- Blockchain consensus makes transactions 'permanent' because unrecorded actions are treated as nonexistent.
- That permanence creates an objective, shared record of succession across nodes.