In this episode, I chat with Scott Dedels, co-CEO of Block Reward, host of the Block Reward Podcast, and author of The Dao of Bitcoin: Towards a Cosmology of Energy Money. Together, we dive deep into the nature of time, monetary entropy, and Bitcoin’s role in reshaping our collective experience.
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--- Chapters ---
00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Welcoming Scott Back!
06:05 - Bitcoin Alive 2025: The Value of Time
11:20 - Time, Money & Energy: The Fiat Trap
17:05 - Interstellar, Halvings & Bitcoin as a Clock
22:35 - Perception of Time & Sending Bitcoin to the Future
28:05 - The Tyranny of the Clock & Mechanical Time
33:20 - Consciousness, Dopamine & Fiat Anxiety
37:35 - Arrival, 4D Time & Transcending Linear Perception
43:05 - Housing, Real Estate & Fiat Distortions
48:50 - Architecture as a Time Capsule
53:35 - Utopian vs. Dystopian Sci-Fi & Collective Imagination
59:05 - Entropy: Thermodynamics, Information & Fiat Disorder
01:05:05 - Triunity: Time, Energy, Value in Bitcoin
01:11:05 - Bitcoin: Durable Across Time & Space
01:18:05 - Subjective Time & Caves Without Clocks
01:23:05 - Time as a Wealth Multiplier
01:25:05 - Freeing the Mind from Fiat Stress
01:27:05 - The Hundred Monkeys & Synchronizing Consciousness
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