

Final Settlement E002: Energy-Backed Money with Max Webster
Jan 30, 2024
Max Webster, an expert in energy-backed money, discusses various topics including Bitcoin as energy-backed money, other forms of commodity money, free markets for electricity, opportunity costs, building layers atop bitcoin, market-ranking systems, rebuilding internet infrastructure, applying altcoin ideas to bitcoin, next wave of bitcoin applications, investing in bitcoin startups, the state of Lightning, and fund structure.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
Excitement and Anticipation for Max Webster's Insights
02:59 • 2min
Bitcoin as Energy-Backed Money
05:29 • 26min
Flaws in Google PageRank and the Need for Standardized Market Rank
31:16 • 2min
Using Attention and Bitcoin to Create a Depth Layer for the Web
33:15 • 6min
The Next Internet: Bitcoin or Boris
39:06 • 14min
Bitcoin as Digital Gold and the Lightning Network
53:13 • 9min
Investment Strategy and Early-Stage Investments
01:02:13 • 17min