This episode begins with thoughts about core traits of real cryptocurrency, given in different terms than I normally use. Independence, Proof, and Direct Action are similar terms to peer-to-peer, trustless (free of needing to trust), avoiding middlemen and gate-keepers and censorship-resistance. Sometimes the terms used in cryptocurrency sound complex or negative (in the psychology sense), but we arrive at these terms because our form of civilized society has removed us from a way of conducting ourselves in the world which in past times used to be simpler and self-evident. The times I mean are before the industrial revolution and education devolution.

For most of the episode, I use a couple social media posts from Richard Heart as a jumping off point to discuss stupid crypto news and things. My intent here is to be conversational and give a first impression on news and things with some background on the thought process of someone approaching from cryptocurrency first principles like I first mentioned, without going into exhaustive depth. I encourage you to do your own research, aka reading and thinking for yourself.

Independence, Proof, Action. If you are totally lost about this, go read the first page of the Bitcoin Whitepaper. So much of "the crypto space" is fake crypto that boldly rejects the core purposes of real crypto.

Thank you for listening!

Music from #Uppbeat, paid-for royalty-free tracks, not an ad. Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/moire/steal-in-sixty-seconds Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/dred-ends