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If you're watching this video, you're going to learn three big things.

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Number one, why so many people start out in crypto, but end up going all in on Bitcoin only.

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Yeah.

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Number two, mushrooms are insane and Bitcoin is just like mushrooms.

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Huh?

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And number three, how Bitcoin could push the future

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toward smaller, stronger communities and more individual freedom.

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All freedom.

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Welcome! Today's guest is Brandon from Swan Bitcoin.

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This guy has the wildest take on how Bitcoin is like the mycelium network, the mushrooms.

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You're going to know more about mushrooms by the end of this episode than you've ever known in your life.

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I know I did. So if you're brand new to Bitcoin, come on inside the world's biggest Bitcoin welcome center for today's show.

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Welcome to Sat Chats, the Bitcoin podcast, where we chat about sats. Sats are the smallest part

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Head to satchats.com to grab your slot in the studio today.

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I'm your host, Stuart.

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And I'm your co-host, Anna Bevan.

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And with us today in the virtual studio is 182 Brandon.

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From Swan Bitcoin, no less.

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Shout out.

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Now, Brandon, take us back to the time when you were a brand new Bitcoiner.

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Can you even remember that?

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When was it?

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What did it feel like?

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Why did you get interested in the first?

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But just give us all of it.

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Absolutely.

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I can remember this quite vividly.

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I have a tendency to get very obsessed with things.

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And when I do, it's all I can think about sometimes for months on end.

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And you can call me a perpetual rabbit hole dweller before Bitcoin.

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2017 came around, friends trading magic internet money online.

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They're telling me how much money they're making, how I'm missing out.

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And so like most people, FOMO brought me in originally. I was seduced by the idea that Ethereum was general purpose technology. We just solve trust on the Internet. We're going to decentralize all the things. And so I was brought in to make money in 2017, made a lot of money in 2017. Then in early 2018, didn't take any profits. All that money I made essentially went away. And after paying taxes, I was left with very little.

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and then I had a decision point to make either I doubled down on this new thing that I essentially

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built my new identity around I was planning on shifting careers here or I tuck out tail between

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my legs and quit and uh you know I'm not a quitter and maybe I'm a little prideful maybe I had to

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reinforce my previous actions either way I went all in and kind of retaught myself economics from

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the ground up. And this is now 2018. I'm living in Asia with my girlfriend at the time, now wife.

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And we're in Chiang Mai, Thailand, going to Bitcoin meetups like five days a week. And I'm

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just barreling down the rabbit hole. And a couple of the guys there, which we would now call Bitcoin

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maximalists, I have to give a shout out to, they were very patient in helping deconstruct my

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blockchain, all the things thinking. And I'll never forget a conversation where I'm pitching

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like supply chain use cases or something. And the guy I'm talking to is like, hey, do you know what

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a UTXO is? And I was like, no, I have no idea what that is. He's like, okay, sit down, young man,

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you have a lot to learn. And out of that next phase of exploration, I realized that Bitcoin was

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the actual thing here. And so now call it like March 2018, focus shifted to Bitcoin. And I realized

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at that point, it was time for a career change. And if we back up a little bit, I started my

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career at Oracle, I was selling ERP software to large companies, I thought my whole life was

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leading to that moment, this is who I am, this is like the thing. And although it was going well,

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you know, top of my team, winning awards, breaking records, youngest guy in the role

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at Oracle ever at the time. It didn't fulfill me in a way that I expected. And so I kind of had a

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quarter life crisis in my mid twenties, where I quit Oracle, sold everything I owned and bought

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a one-way ticket to India. And then from 2014 through 2018, my wife and I traveled all around

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the world, working remotely, building online businesses. Looking back, it was kind of a

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stereotypical find yourself move combined with my wife and I are like business people first,

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but we got into psychedelics, more Eastern spirituality type stuff. And so we just kind

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of crawled the earth, exploring that side of ourselves personally. While we read the four-hour

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work week, how to build stuff online. And so we were just building small bootstrapped cashflow

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businesses. And after that first year, we were making enough money to travel forever. We thought

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we discovered a secret to the universe and we just lived that lifestyle for a while. But like all good

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things. If you have too much of them, you start to get jaded. You start to desire the stability

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of home life. I wanted to go get a beer at a sports bar with college buddies. I wanted to have

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a garden. I wanted to go camping, just some foundational life stuff that you get living

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stationary. And so as I was sort of being disenchanted with that digital nomad lifestyle,

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lifestyle, which we went all into. So sort of ready for a change. Bitcoin came in at that same

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time, which probably put a little fuel to the fire on this new obsession. And by mid 2018,

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I took myself entirely out of our businesses, just replaced myself through hiring. Businesses

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kicked off cash and they just gave me like free time to study. And so we're talking 15 hours a

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day for six months straight, like a psychopath. And learned a lot in that period, forged a lot of

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my early thinking. And out of that exploration phase, I started to explore Bitcoin through the

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lens of biology. I have no formal training, whatever, a few classes in college and always

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was interested. But I started seeing Bitcoin through that lens and more specifically through

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the lens of mycology, which is the study of fungi. And we can get into that if you want. But

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I published a series of essays on the topic starting in 2018. To my surprise, the Bitcoin

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community was very open to these ideas. And all my essays started going viral and built a little

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brand as a content creator explaining Bitcoin through an orthogonal lens. And so that led to

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meeting Corey, meeting everyone in the Bitcoin industry, led to my job at Swan in 2019, so the

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next year and sort of opened a lot of doors. And since then we sold off those businesses.

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I thought it was entirely unhirable after working solo for so long. I'm very independent. I don't

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like arbitrary rules, arbitrary authority. So I was like, there's no way I can be hired again

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after getting a taste of the freedom. However, meeting Corey and the early team, Jan, Brady,

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and a few others, combined with this larger mission, much larger than myself, which is freeing

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money from the shackles of central banking and giving it back to the people, you might say in a

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Promethean sense, stealing fire from the gods, I realized that it's more important that I work in a

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larger team because I can enact more change in the world through this Bitcoin mission. And so all

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those things together, life converged on a moment, getting good feedback from the market, feeling good

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about myself, feeling confident about what I'm building, and just feeling generally fired up and

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energized by this new mission. And then I blink and it's six and a half years later since I joined

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Swan, a little bit longer since I got into Bitcoin. And here we are. That's wild. That's insane.

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Anna Bevin is the most recent Bitcoiner on this show, right? Yeah. So I'm going to ask you,

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because I wrote down a couple of things.

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Number one, he talked about being in lots of different rabbit holes.

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Number two, there was kind of an interesting moment

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where he started off interested in all of crypto

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slash like Ethereum being this universal piece of technology,

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more than one use case for the blockchain,

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apart from being connected in as, you know,

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a component of what makes Bitcoin money.

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like Bitcoin is a giant mushroom on us.

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or did you have something else that you wanted to ask him?

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Yeah, I actually really wanted to go down

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the Bitcoin and biology and mycology.

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Is that what you said?

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That's right.

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Yeah, very curious about that.

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Okay, let's hear that one.

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Yeah, hit me with that one.

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Okay. So this is, I've spilled like 20, 30,000 words on this one. So there's many a topic. I'll

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try and give you like a super high level starting point. We can see if we want to double click on

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anything. So at first glance, Bitcoin and biology should have nothing in common. One is software,

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one is money, the other is some weird biology thing, right? However, there are a lot of parallels

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us here that I think we should think about. The first one is that Bitcoin is kind of like an

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autonomous system. The rules are released. The code is out there. We voluntarily participate

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in this thing by mining it, by running a node, by building software, by spending it, acquiring it,

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whatever. The system pays the miners to do the work in the form of new issuance. We have a

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self-interested motivation to acquire more wealth. So we go participate and breathe life

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into this thing. And how is it possible that some code in a white paper bootstrapped itself

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into the most powerful computing network on our planet, slurped up $2 trillion worth of value,

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and no one's in charge. There's no marketing department. There's no quarterly business review,

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nothing. And so I think it feels like some sort of a new decentralized meta-organism that lives

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on the internet. That's point one. Point two, if you look at the architecture of mycelium,

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okay, quick biology primary here, fungi is its own kingdom. There's animals, plants, fungi,

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et cetera. There's more fungi than plants and animals combined. Okay. So it's a very diverse

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kingdom. Most people think about the mushrooms that they buy at the grocery store, the emoji

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mushroom or psilocybin mushrooms, right? But there's hundreds and hundreds of thousands of

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these things. Some are macroscopic mushrooms, meaning you go in the woods and you just see a

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bodacious mushroom growing out of a log or out of the ground. But other types of fungi would be like

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a yeast, okay? Little microscopic organisms that kind of just float in a little soup.

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And point being, there's a big diversity.

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If you like chocolate, if you like tea, if you like coffee, if you like bread, if you

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like beer, all these things are only possible because of our fungal allies.

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OK, they produce all these things for us.

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And we essentially deploy them as technology to get them to do what we want.

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And so that's the food side.

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Most of our medicine comes from fungi.

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because fungi and animals are more similar than plants and animals are.

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They had to learn how to defend themselves in their own ecosystem.

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They're fighting against other fungi, other bacteria, etc.

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that they selfishly use to protect themselves.

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that we can just steal these compounds from fungi

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who are the masters of chemistry and use them for ourself. So like the famous penicillin example,

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why is something growing on bread? In World War I, we were taking moldy bread and putting it on

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soldier wounds. And we didn't know why. All we knew was that it helped stop infection. And then

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later they figured out what exactly was going on. So point being, fungi are very old organisms

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and they work very well with humans. We're symbiotic in many different ways.

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At the same time, these fungi are the most resilient archetype on our planet.

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Okay, let's go back to mycelium. Mycelium is the primary structure that a fungi takes.

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And you can think of it like one cell walled little tubes creating a network.

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And it's an industrial network. It has pumps, it has tubes, it has turbines, it has all these

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machinery underground. And this one cell wall system of tubes we call mycelium, it essentially

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burrows into its environment. So every tree root has, it essentially allows mycelium through

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chemistry to sneak into those tree roots and build little industrial tubes. And those trees

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and that mycelial fungi, they essentially trade resources. The fungi use chemistry to dissolve

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their environment and liberate minerals and then trades those minerals with the tree in exchange

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for fats and sugars, which the tree makes through photosynthesis. And so that symbiotic relationship

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is the only reason why trees can be larger than a meter tall, because they need minerals in their

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structure in order to grow tall Otherwise everything small And this symbiotic relationship happens everywhere all the time And properly understood I think a forest is more it more alive more avatar which we were talking about in the early phase pre

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And through science now, we can essentially biotag this mycelium with radioactive molecules

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in the same way you do before a surgery or something.

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And we can watch this underground fungal economy happen in real time.

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And what's interesting is the fungi actually perform economic calculations.

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And this is ancient, like way before animals.

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And so they buy high, they sell low, they broker deals between species and species.

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For example, this giant oak tree is starting to die out.

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If you tag that mycelium underground, what you see is that that oak tree actually gives

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resources to the pine tree next door.

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right if you think about darwinian evolution you should never give resources to another genetic

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line you should preserve it for yourself but instead the fungi essentially collaborate with

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the entire forest and the fungi actually feels like the brain of the forest and the immune system

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trading all these resources and you could look at a forest as a bunch of trees uh you know more of

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like a plant-centric view phytocentric view or you can look at it as a microcentric view the fungi

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are actually farming trees. So a forest is actually a tree farm satisfying the fungi's needs,

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right? They require the trees for their food so then they can grow. And the oldest and largest

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organisms on our planet are fungi. Okay. If you go to Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon,

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there's like a, I can't remember how big it is, but it's thousands of miles square and thousands

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of years old. It's a honey mushroom and it's essentially consuming an entire forest in the

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mountains. And they did some genetic studies and they realized it's the exact same genetics across

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this whole thing. And how is it possible? Well, because if we go back, fungi actually learn and

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they adapt from their environment. So a new predator comes, they send out little mushroom

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scientists, create a new enzyme, that new enzyme deals with the predator. Over time, they build a

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chemical library of these enzymes. And that's how they're able to survive so long. If we use a quick

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parallel here to Bitcoin, Bitcoin is also this decentralized mycelial network. And in mycelium

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and with Bitcoin, there's no leader, there's no central processing unit, there's no brain.

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You could cut Bitcoin in half, it routes around. You could cut a mycelial network in half. Now you

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have two and it adapts. So the parallels are crazy. And on the custom enzyme, the part where

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the fungi learns, Bitcoin's the same. If you have a situation where we identify a bug in the software

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or in the social layer, there's some issue. Information travels through the Bitcoin network,

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just like the Mycelium network. It finds its way to developers or little mushroom scientists.

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The software developers create a new software patch or custom enzyme, and it updates the system,

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the system learns. So over time, every time you attack Mycelium, every time you attack Bitcoin,

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as long as the network is set up properly and there's people vigilant to protect it,

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It learns, it upgrades, and that vulnerability is no longer as scary.

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That's a mouthful I could go on for two hours straight.

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I'll pass it to you guys.

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Goodness.

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That is wild.

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One, that is the most science.

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Biology I've heard since like the 10th grade.

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Like since the 10th grade.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, my God.

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That is wild.

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Oh, my God.

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What about the trees can't grow above a meter or three meters?

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The trees can't get to be more than three to nine feet tall

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without mushrooms underneath trading off with them?

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Like, hook us up with some of your photosynthesis.

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We'll hook you up with some of this chemistry.

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Oh, my goodness.

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That was crazy.

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I, like, I've never thought about it like that.

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That is crazy.

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Well, I've never thought about biology since I left the 10th grade.

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I don't think so either.

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But what I'm trying to figure out, Brandon, is if I can summarize what I've heard,

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these mushrooms are basically more abundant than we think,

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and they power more than we think,

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and they operate intelligently with the trading,

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the buying high of this, I was like, dude,

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or the buying low and the selling high was insane.

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So there's a decentralized brainless operating system

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called these mushrooms.

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And Bitcoin is also spread out.

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It also has no central ruler or brain.

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So there's parallels there.

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what I'm trying to understand is what are the trees that Bitcoin is up underneath, right? Like,

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are they now kind of growing into the main financial system in order to exchange resources

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with it and grow silently underneath? Are individual Bitcoiners like the trees? Like,

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in it you know you're describing a situation where the mushrooms are

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absorbing unto themselves the resources required to grow how is bitcoin doing that same thing

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good question yeah i think there's a lot of ways to slice it and we got to be careful with

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analogies right um this is an analogy it breaks down it's not a perfect one-to-one map here

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And so just caveat aside, we can play with these ideas.

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We can use these ideas to understand Bitcoin in new ways.

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And we can use these ideas to help non-technical, non-finance people understand Bitcoin.

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I think that's the thing I'm most proud about with this exploration is I get all these messages saying, hey, my wife, my friend, my brother, my whatever.

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They couldn't grasp Bitcoin in the existing content sphere.

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But the biology way was sort of a backdoor to understanding technology.

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and just a side note there i think technology is actually um acting on the same evolutionary

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drivers as biological evolution i think technology is just humans performing that same mode however

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evolution works we're doing the same thing with technology and the difference is biology is slow

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it takes a very long time to change but culture and our minds and abstraction that layer can grow

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very, very quickly, which is why society feels like it's going off the rails. We're evolving our

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culture beyond our biological capacity, and we have no respect for our biology. So we have all

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these poor outcomes in human health, in mental health, in physical health, etc. We're sort of

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operating from a hunter-gatherer hardware system, but we're dropped into a new software system way

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beyond our means. And so just some slight asides there. Regarding the trees, what are the trees?

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I think you can look at it a lot of ways. But first, we have to understand what are fungi doing?

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They appear to be collaborators. They appear to be working within their ecosystem. Okay. Does it

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mean that they're this happy-go-lucky symbiotic organism that's selfless? No. Fungi are operating

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in their own best interests like all organisms are. But in order to be successful as a kingdom,

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they do want to collaborate. And so through incentives, it leads them to help out their

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environment. One plus one equals three. In the same way that markets create wealth, division of labor

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creates wealth. We all specialize. We apply specific knowledge. We create value. That value

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is then shared by society. So there's a similar thing there where collaboration is just the best

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strategy most of the time. And I think Fungi show that. And I think where Bitcoin comes in,

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I think it's scale agnostic. Maybe that's the easy way to describe it. Me personally,

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the closer I become to Bitcoin, the more I adopt those principles, the things that Bitcoin can

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teach me, the better my personal life becomes. That's true at the individual, that's true at the

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company level, that's true at the state level, that's true at the species level. I think humanity

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is better off with a monetary tool that is superior than what we have today. Money is a

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foundational core technology for humans. And if we upgrade the money, we will upgrade society

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because of that. And so you could insert any scale you want into the trees in this analogy.

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I just think Bitcoin is a tool that improves humanity the more symbiotic we are with it.

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So did writing these essays strengthen your conviction in Bitcoin?

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Or just find another way to explain what you already believed in?

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Yeah, great question.

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Um, humans will come up with any justification to reinforce their beliefs.

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We don't like changing our minds.

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We don't like being wrong.

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So we got to be careful of that trap.

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If we go back to 2018, I was sold on the economic argument.

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I understand Austrian economic principles.

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Bitcoin is the best money.

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We took what we learned.

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We engineered a better money.

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It fits with the digital age.

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It overcomes gold's weaknesses.

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It's defensible against fiat.

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Okay, great.

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But if Bitcoin is what we think it is, won't the government just shut it down?

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2018, that was a very real risk.

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And obviously before that as well, less so now, right?

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That headwind became a tailwind with new administration, the banks getting on board, right?

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I think we kind of crossed that risk.

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However, at the time, not the case.

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My biggest block was, well, how can this thing survive a state level attack?

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And that's where the biology stuff came in.

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And so fungi have been around for a long time.

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We described that.

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We have over a billion year old fossilized records of early mycology, those tubes, the

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mycelial network fossilized.

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And so these things have been around for a while.

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If we go back a billion years, a lot has changed on our planet through that period.

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And so now we know that fungi have survived all six great mass extinction events that

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we track, right?

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The famous one, 65 million years ago, asteroid hits the planet, killed the dinosaurs, right?

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When that asteroid hit, huge plume of debris blocks out the sun for years, okay?

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Reptiles are cold-blooded.

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Dinosaurs are reptiles.

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So if there's no sun, all these giant dinosaurs have no, their body, the body temperature

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goes down so low that they can't find food.

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And during that period, essentially all the reptiles die, not all, but most.

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and it gave rise to the age of mammals, which we are in now.

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And so our human mammal ancestry comes from a single organism we call the tenric.

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It's a little mouse, little shrew type thing that could uniquely go underground

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and go into stasis mode, kind of like a bear hibernates.

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The tenric could go into stasis mode for long periods of time

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and wake up periodically and reproduce and do all the things.

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So essentially, we're only here because a tiny mouse lived underground during this massive cataclysmic event.

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So that's the human side.

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What happened to the fungi?

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Fungi find their own food.

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Plants make food.

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Fungi and animals find their own food.

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So while the sun's gone, this does not affect fungi at all, and they essentially inherit the earth.

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Their competition's gone.

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They have unlimited resources.

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Fungi take over the earth.

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and then eventually mammals rise and now all of a sudden we're here. So that's just one extinction

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event. There's been many, but every time there's an extinction event, the macro organisms,

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they get wiped out like 90% bottleneck type stuff, but fungi persist. Why is that? Well,

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they have a very, very strong archetype, that decentralized network archetype. And that's just

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a very robust, very anti-fragile type system. And so, okay, fungi can survive any condition.

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They find their own food, they make their own food, they teach themselves new chemistry,

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they go into new niches, et cetera. If Bitcoin has a similar decentralized network archetype,

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then maybe Bitcoin can actually survive the coming attacks from the state or from banks or from

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inside corruption or whatever. And that was actually the final piece to lead me to believe

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that Bitcoin can survive the coming wave of state level attacks,

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which maybe they never materialized

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or maybe they tried attacking it the whole time

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and couldn't get it done.

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Maybe we'll never know.

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Yeah, that was the tie in there.

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Okay.

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Yes, right?

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I feel like you've thought more about Bitcoin

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than I have in the whole year.

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Like, it's like-

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Very impressive.

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What I like too is like the way that I,

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the way that I operate, Brandon, is like in a multi-thousand year way. I really like thinking

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about what it's going to be like in the year 7026 with Bitcoin. If I can track out into the future

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and see that Bitcoin is in fact the intergalactic credit, then I can draw it all the way back to

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the present day and say, okay, so since this is correct 5,000 years from now, I need to stack

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Satoshi's today. Like that's the way that I get motivated to take action in my present day

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is to take it out 5,000 plus years and say, does this still hold up? And if not, it's like, okay,

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well you make these tiny adjustments today and you get a completely different result in the future you almost going the other way And saying if we look at a similar structure over the grand arc of biological history we got a winner here folks

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And if Bitcoin shares any similarities with fungi, right, and mycelial networks and mushrooms,

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et cetera, then some of the same things must be true.

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It's absolutely wild.

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My question is, if we're now learning on this show, Anna Bevan and I, in real time, that mushrooms are lit up and absolutely bonkers, and we as humans are capable of knowing that through study over time,

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then in what way over the next several hundred years can we as humans leverage bitcoin to operate

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more like a mushroom network and have that be a good thing for the future

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yeah that's an interesting question how can we be more like fungi i mean i i think where we are now

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We're in a very unique point in human history with AI coming.

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We're at the tail end of a long-term debt cycle.

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We're going through a fourth turning, which is a generational theory on social changes

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that happen in sort of like a recurring pattern.

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And so you add all this stuff together, things are changing very rapidly.

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And the future is uncertain in a way that we've never experienced in our lifetime.

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Going back to World War II era, I think is fair to say.

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And so with coming changes, what we should learn from the mushroom is to make ourselves as anti-fragile as possible. So if your job is uncertain, you should have a higher savings rate. If the future geopolitical climate is uncertain, you should be prepared for a worst case scenario for your family.

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You should come up with the ability to change career quickly.

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You should be able to learn new skills.

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You should opt out of the political, the politics du jour.

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These things don't serve you, right?

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So sort of planning for a worst case scenario and minimize the risk of ruin so that you

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can make it through this period successfully.

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Obviously, anytime there's change, there's opportunity.

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And so I don't mean to make this like a doomer thing.

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This should be an optimistic thing. Anyone with high agency who can temporarily opt out of the matrix has a massive advantage right now.

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Tools are leveraged. Those who adopt new tools have longer leverage. Meanwhile, your peers are doom scrolling TikTok.

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Right. So just like COVID was an opportunity to get ahead, people are freaking out and stuck inside and sort of just dwelling on it.

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the people who saw that opportunity to, wait, I have more free time, social calendar freed up,

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go all in on new skills. Those are the people who came ahead out of COVID. I think the same

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is true now. And so my advice would be become anti-fragile. And what that means in the new

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era of technology is also meaning learning new skills so that you can adapt to the changes.

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would you reorganize the nation state however like if we i mean eat you know that's good advice

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for the individual human right but what you've taught us is that you can have 1000 plus square

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mile honey mushrooms that are consuming a forest out on the west coast which is amazing and now i

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want to know which mushrooms are powering my beloved black forest in germany questions that

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need answers right like because now i'm realizing when my bitcoin stack goes to the moon brandon

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because i'm just going to get back into degenerate mode here for a second i got to protect the 500

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year old trees of the black forest and the mushroom network underneath i gotta go i gotta go deeper

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now um how does the group element of humanity like if you could just if you like let's just

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say you could just magic wand um take the uh the current setup of how things are okay and say you

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know what now we're going to organize like this would you move toward a single world government

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like it's star trek the next enterprise the vulcans have come and hooked us up or would you

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modify the current 200 plus some odd nation states who are all kind of doing their thing

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quasi individually quasi not or even go into like what they might describe in um the sovereign

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individual where you get into like a a cyber middle ages and now the city of raleigh develops

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some walls around the 540 belt line you know we got some we got some cool knights that hang out now

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in Raleigh we got some Dukes we got some Squires you know there's a Cyber Knights Templar that is

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now you know international or there's a fourth option of being truly mushroom-like in our

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organization like how does the greater group adapt with this knowledge that you have here

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yeah good question um we can go sci-fi mode I'll share my vision of what I think the future

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needs and will probably happen. Let's go sci-fi mode. Yes, let's do it. Yes. I do think the

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sovereign individual is a very good thesis here in that one of the main arguments is that the

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logic of violence is sort of upstream of how we organize culture. So let's take the industrial age,

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for example, the MO was magnitude of power. Who has the big ships? Who has the most guns,

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the most ammo, the most soldiers. If you have that, you can control the world.

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So that's the industrial revolution game. Might is right, more is better. And that was true up

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until the microprocessor was created. And then we've entered something more like the information

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age instead of the industrial age. And in that world, the logic of violence shifts.

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It shifts from magnitude to something more like a defensive technology, like defensive technology, meaning cryptography for our money, cryptography for information.

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So it allows more power to the individual rather to the larger group.

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And in fact, larger groups in an information age also have a huge cost because labor will be devalued massively in this world.

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And so more people doesn't mean you have a better government or a better claim to the world. Instead, you want high technology, more intelligence, and essentially the little guy has an advantage. You can protect your money, you can protect your comms.

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00:35:46,828 --> 00:36:08,188
And so if that's true, then the larger mega empires start to break down. And what we should see is smaller nation states popping up with narrow specific goals. You can create a new country with new ideas, new values, and then you can defend yourself with autonomous drone swarms. You can defend your money with cryptography, etc.

427
00:36:08,188 --> 00:36:14,048
So even if soldiers come to try and take your money, they don't get your money. It's no longer

428
00:36:14,048 --> 00:36:19,028
gold in a vault, which would be the first thing armies would seize when they conquer a new area.

429
00:36:19,888 --> 00:36:25,208
Instead, there's no money to gain. And so essentially, it's too expensive to attack

430
00:36:25,208 --> 00:36:31,408
this small city state, so you just don't. And so combine that with the fact that you can bootstrap

431
00:36:31,408 --> 00:36:37,688
net new energy assets through Bitcoin mining, because Bitcoin mining reduces the economic

432
00:36:37,688 --> 00:36:43,488
requirements in order to generate net new energy assets, because Bitcoin miners are customer number

433
00:36:43,488 --> 00:36:49,108
one. So that shifts the economic calculus on bootstrapping, nuclear, remote, hydro, whatever.

434
00:36:49,948 --> 00:36:54,388
And so combined decentralized energy, decentralized money, decentralized comms,

435
00:36:54,808 --> 00:36:59,828
you can kind of squint and you can kind of see a future where larger states are less competitive,

436
00:36:59,828 --> 00:37:05,728
and there'll be an impulse to fracture into smaller units. I think this is good for humanity

437
00:37:05,728 --> 00:37:11,728
as well. I think the best part of the American system is the federalism system, meaning 50 states

438
00:37:11,728 --> 00:37:15,868
who have their own rules. We see what makes sense in a limited federal government to

439
00:37:15,868 --> 00:37:21,848
essentially maintain the border. Obviously, we've evolved into a giant federal government,

440
00:37:21,848 --> 00:37:29,268
which is a problem. Point being, I expect 3,000 nations instead of 300. I think that the

441
00:37:29,268 --> 00:37:35,188
incentives are there to achieve that, but I'm under no illusion this is next week type of thing.

442
00:37:35,188 --> 00:37:39,648
This could take generations before that's true.

443
00:37:39,888 --> 00:37:42,288
But I think the trend is going in that direction.

444
00:37:44,208 --> 00:37:44,688
Wow.

445
00:37:44,808 --> 00:37:45,648
Did you get all that?

446
00:37:46,408 --> 00:37:50,888
I think I'm still, I mean, that was a lot for starters.

447
00:37:51,908 --> 00:38:00,108
But so many nation states, like I hear those words.

448
00:38:00,708 --> 00:38:02,748
I'm not sure how that plays out practically.

449
00:38:02,748 --> 00:38:09,448
well it's kind of like in classical greece you know you've got the city-state of athens right

450
00:38:09,448 --> 00:38:19,628
that interoperates with the the city-state of sparta i mean i studied the roman times y'all i

451
00:38:19,628 --> 00:38:25,088
didn't do much of that greek action but the idea is you know you might have these more powerful

452
00:38:25,088 --> 00:38:33,888
centers, but their reach is only so large. And kind of what Brandon is describing there is

453
00:38:33,888 --> 00:38:41,268
we reached a point in time, you know, we kind of, we were kind of in smaller pockets until we reached

454
00:38:41,268 --> 00:38:47,548
a machine age. And we had machines that would work for us. We had machines that would kill

455
00:38:47,548 --> 00:38:54,048
other human beings. And you just wanted to have the biggest versions of those machines possible.

456
00:38:54,048 --> 00:39:02,788
right but now we have tiny machines that do ridiculous amounts of work for us

457
00:39:02,788 --> 00:39:14,728
and can protect us online through mathematics and if if you if you can't break into my bitcoin wallet

458
00:39:14,728 --> 00:39:20,288
in a squillion years because you would need more guesses than there are atoms in the universe

459
00:39:20,288 --> 00:39:26,668
then if you come into my little pocket and mess me up all you've done is spent your own resources

460
00:39:26,668 --> 00:39:33,568
to blow me out of the water and you don't have the treasure you know yeah you don't have the

461
00:39:33,568 --> 00:39:39,328
booty right so then it's like okay well it's not worth my time you know what i mean so in a world

462
00:39:39,328 --> 00:39:46,728
where the machines are now tiny each individual person or small group of people can protect

463
00:39:46,728 --> 00:39:53,108
themselves much more effectively from aggressors so long as they don't drop a nuclear bomb on you

464
00:39:53,108 --> 00:39:59,928
i guess is one piece because pretty much we do that you're you're toast but that leads to a

465
00:39:59,928 --> 00:40:06,768
whole another series of problems but anyways i mean i i mean i would guess that would lead to more

466
00:40:06,768 --> 00:40:16,648
um more diplomacy like if you have conflicts you'd want to try to find a solution to them instead of

467
00:40:16,728 --> 00:40:19,728
going in and threatening to get stuff because you can't really get it.

468
00:40:21,148 --> 00:40:23,588
I think, too, you would have like the triangle.

469
00:40:23,868 --> 00:40:26,948
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill would be a city-state.

470
00:40:27,268 --> 00:40:27,468
Yeah.

471
00:40:27,628 --> 00:40:34,008
You know, the triad that has Greensboro and Winston-Salem would be a city-state, but not as big.

472
00:40:34,428 --> 00:40:36,748
Charlotte would be a pretty big old city-state.

473
00:40:36,868 --> 00:40:37,948
Lots of financial elements there.

474
00:40:37,948 --> 00:40:39,248
They think of themselves that way anyway.

475
00:40:39,628 --> 00:40:43,148
Wilmington-Rightsville Beach would have a little bit of a city-state vibe, right?

476
00:40:43,228 --> 00:40:43,488
Yeah.

477
00:40:43,888 --> 00:40:46,148
So kind of wild.

478
00:40:46,148 --> 00:40:53,428
And then like, you know, the kind of outlying lands would be up on, they would roll up underneath

479
00:40:53,428 --> 00:40:53,828
these.

480
00:40:54,188 --> 00:40:55,788
Dude, I started the Middle Ages, Brandon.

481
00:40:55,848 --> 00:40:57,968
So I'm 100% ready to go.

482
00:40:58,228 --> 00:40:59,908
I know how to win in that environment.

483
00:41:00,908 --> 00:41:01,668
I'm here.

484
00:41:01,808 --> 00:41:02,188
I'm here.

485
00:41:02,248 --> 00:41:09,308
It's like, let's break up into smaller pieces and achieve like a greater balance as a result.

486
00:41:10,228 --> 00:41:10,668
So Brandon.

487
00:41:12,208 --> 00:41:13,768
Can I add on to that really quick?

488
00:41:13,768 --> 00:41:16,108
A key point here, though, you asked for the practical.

489
00:41:16,488 --> 00:41:20,948
And the U.S. isn't going to voluntarily give up those city-states you mentioned.

490
00:41:21,488 --> 00:41:26,588
And so I foresee this more like being a desperation move out of bankrupt nations.

491
00:41:27,608 --> 00:41:29,888
All the land is claimed, essentially.

492
00:41:30,348 --> 00:41:31,708
No one wants to give up territory.

493
00:41:31,908 --> 00:41:38,448
Every time there's a local uprising, like in northern Spain, the Catalonians wanted to secede.

494
00:41:38,908 --> 00:41:41,328
You've got some central Canada.

495
00:41:41,328 --> 00:41:43,228
They want to secede, create their own state.

496
00:41:43,768 --> 00:41:49,228
the Northwest U.S. Washingtonian or whatever they call their wannabe break off.

497
00:41:49,528 --> 00:41:51,428
No one's going to let that happen easily.

498
00:41:51,968 --> 00:41:54,188
And so how could this practically occur?

499
00:41:54,868 --> 00:41:58,208
Are you guys familiar with Balaji and his theory on the network state?

500
00:41:58,208 --> 00:42:00,208
Well, we know Balaji Srinivasan.

501
00:42:00,968 --> 00:42:03,208
He wrote that one essay or that one book,

502
00:42:03,228 --> 00:42:05,008
but we haven't heard this part that you're talking about.

503
00:42:05,168 --> 00:42:05,288
Yeah.

504
00:42:06,668 --> 00:42:06,968
Okay.

505
00:42:07,008 --> 00:42:11,108
So he's kind of extrapolating on the same theme to sovereign individual.

506
00:42:11,108 --> 00:42:16,748
His theory is that we will organize first as digital communities, let's say Bitcoiners.

507
00:42:17,448 --> 00:42:20,968
And Bitcoiners have a value set that we can generally agree on.

508
00:42:21,048 --> 00:42:23,008
It's a Bitcoin standard, blah, blah, blah.

509
00:42:23,968 --> 00:42:25,268
But we want some land.

510
00:42:25,608 --> 00:42:26,708
So we start calling around.

511
00:42:26,848 --> 00:42:28,188
Nobody wants to give up land.

512
00:42:28,808 --> 00:42:31,748
And then you realize that all the nations are up to their debt and eyeballs.

513
00:42:32,048 --> 00:42:34,648
And we're going to see a lot of sovereign defaults this century.

514
00:42:34,648 --> 00:42:43,648
And so if country X is bankrupt, then Bitcoiners online can crowdfund some amount of Bitcoin

515
00:42:43,648 --> 00:42:48,648
and acquire a territory from an existing sovereign and say, hey, we get our own rules here.

516
00:42:48,648 --> 00:43:01,782
This is a special economic zone maybe at first and then later you get sort of full sovereignty recognized by the rest of the world And so that one way it could look And then in that community the value set is already well

517
00:43:01,782 --> 00:43:07,382
defined online. And so it's not that hard to translate values into some form of governance.

518
00:43:08,082 --> 00:43:14,022
I think we're going to see that's like the idealized internet native tech guy version.

519
00:43:14,022 --> 00:43:20,182
The other angle is technology requires, how can I describe this?

520
00:43:20,922 --> 00:43:24,762
Certain technologies are strangled by regulation.

521
00:43:25,222 --> 00:43:26,122
Let's say rockets.

522
00:43:26,622 --> 00:43:28,262
Let's say nuclear technology.

523
00:43:28,482 --> 00:43:31,142
Let's say bioengineering, right?

524
00:43:31,202 --> 00:43:35,742
Things that have a high risk of going wrong, the government wants to protect us from that failure mode.

525
00:43:35,742 --> 00:43:45,862
But if you overprotect ourselves and then China just goes hog wild, then you're essentially just disadvantaging the U.S. and handing the new technology race to China.

526
00:43:46,382 --> 00:43:52,802
So what we would want to do is create special economic zones in the U.S. in the same way that Elon built Starbase in Texas.

527
00:43:53,402 --> 00:43:56,702
They have special rules. They don't have to go through the proper channels.

528
00:43:56,862 --> 00:44:02,042
They can iterate and make mistakes. And it's kind of a known area with special rules.

529
00:44:02,662 --> 00:44:06,502
And so I think there's an incentive there for competitive reasons to generate special

530
00:44:06,502 --> 00:44:07,342
economic zones.

531
00:44:07,702 --> 00:44:12,562
And then on the other side, like the culture side, groups will form online and then they'll

532
00:44:12,562 --> 00:44:14,902
want to realize their values in real life.

533
00:44:15,262 --> 00:44:18,582
And so I think kind of both happen at the same time and probably many other versions

534
00:44:18,582 --> 00:44:19,962
of this that aren't obvious to me.

535
00:44:20,462 --> 00:44:23,522
And you can kind of see little patchwork things popping up.

536
00:44:23,682 --> 00:44:27,942
And what we'll learn from that is these are all little experiments, right?

537
00:44:27,942 --> 00:44:33,362
We've essentially stopped experimenting in politics for a long time because there's no land to do so.

538
00:44:34,042 --> 00:44:42,542
And so this will generate an explosion of new innovation in how we organize as people, combined with the meta trends coming out of sovereign individual.

539
00:44:43,622 --> 00:44:46,102
Yeah, I think you can kind of see that trend playing out.

540
00:44:46,202 --> 00:44:51,582
And I can see those two angles at least being the obvious ones for practical ways it can get done.

541
00:44:51,782 --> 00:44:57,802
So how long in your version of this, like of this picture, how long before we get here?

542
00:44:57,942 --> 00:45:10,042
no idea um i mean i can i can uh pontificate on things but i have no confidence in my own

543
00:45:10,042 --> 00:45:15,502
timelines and i don't think anyone else should either um i think the trend is there it could

544
00:45:15,502 --> 00:45:21,102
never happen but i like systems thinking in big picture and look at history look back to look

545
00:45:21,102 --> 00:45:27,862
forward type stuff. And I just think that's the trend we're going down. I don't expect 3000

546
00:45:27,862 --> 00:45:34,382
countries in my lifetime, but it could happen. Well, Brandon, it's clear that there is so much

547
00:45:34,382 --> 00:45:40,942
to Bitcoin that we will never fit it into a single chat about sats. So we do ask each of our guests

548
00:45:40,942 --> 00:45:44,962
if they'd be willing to come back on in nine months to give us an update on their Bitcoin

549
00:45:44,962 --> 00:45:51,522
baby would you be willing to do that we'll see how many new nations form between now and then

550
00:45:51,522 --> 00:45:57,322
oh yeah now brandon that you know before we move over to ithaca hummus

551
00:45:57,322 --> 00:46:05,902
for the brand new bitcoiner who just had their eyes opened to a world of possibilities biological

552
00:46:05,902 --> 00:46:14,842
sociopolitical you know futuro historic however you want to say it um what's what's your advice

553
00:46:14,842 --> 00:46:22,662
to them. If they just bought $50 worth last night for the first time on Swan and they just found your

554
00:46:22,662 --> 00:46:29,502
episode, what's the one thing that this brand new Bitcoiner needs to do to just be doing the right

555
00:46:29,502 --> 00:46:37,302
thing no matter which way any of this stuff goes? Yeah, I think it all comes back to understanding

556
00:46:37,302 --> 00:46:42,922
what Bitcoin is as best you can. The reason why you want to do that is you want to have an educated

557
00:46:42,922 --> 00:46:49,542
opinion on what this thing is so you can allocate your resources appropriately. What most people do

558
00:46:49,542 --> 00:46:53,882
is when they first start buying Bitcoin, they buy a little bit. And that usually makes sense. You

559
00:46:53,882 --> 00:46:59,282
should buy in relation to your conviction, your understanding of the asset. And then two years

560
00:46:59,282 --> 00:47:04,482
go by and you go, wow, if I would have actually studied it hard right away, I would have been

561
00:47:04,482 --> 00:47:09,822
allocating more of my resources two years ago when the price was lower than it is now. And then they

562
00:47:09,822 --> 00:47:16,042
scramble and try to catch up. And so I would say sprint down the understand this thing as fast as

563
00:47:16,042 --> 00:47:21,382
you can arc so that you can assess your conviction level so that you can allocate resources

564
00:47:21,382 --> 00:47:27,922
appropriately. Obviously embedded here is typically the more you understand about Bitcoin, the more

565
00:47:27,922 --> 00:47:33,782
you allocate to it. And you just want to give yourself as much time to acquire it as you can.

566
00:47:33,782 --> 00:47:38,442
And a 60, 70K Bitcoin in 2026 is an absolute dream.

567
00:47:39,062 --> 00:47:40,942
So don't feel bad.

568
00:47:41,062 --> 00:47:42,442
You're not late to the party.

569
00:47:42,662 --> 00:47:44,662
There's massive upside ahead.

570
00:47:45,022 --> 00:47:48,302
But make sure you position yourself appropriately as soon as possible.

571
00:47:49,222 --> 00:47:49,982
I like that.

572
00:47:50,142 --> 00:47:51,142
Assess your conviction.

573
00:47:51,642 --> 00:47:52,582
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

574
00:47:52,882 --> 00:47:55,742
Kind of investing in tune with your conviction.

575
00:47:56,062 --> 00:47:57,162
Yeah, that's good.

576
00:47:57,362 --> 00:47:58,802
All right, let's make it happen over here, Abes.

577
00:47:58,802 --> 00:47:59,782
All right.

578
00:47:59,782 --> 00:48:09,222
So this brings us to our Buy the Dip moment sponsor, Ithaca Hummus, reminding us to buy the dip.

579
00:48:09,362 --> 00:48:11,202
Which Brandon just told us to do as well, y'all.

580
00:48:11,302 --> 00:48:12,242
So it has to be true.

581
00:48:12,402 --> 00:48:12,922
That he did.

582
00:48:13,562 --> 00:48:17,962
So we are tasting in the studio today the lemon dill.

583
00:48:18,442 --> 00:48:20,562
It's been a minute since we've had the lemon dill.

584
00:48:20,702 --> 00:48:23,642
So we're going to act as your taste buds today.

585
00:48:25,222 --> 00:48:25,742
Cheers.

586
00:48:25,942 --> 00:48:26,102
Cheers.

587
00:48:29,782 --> 00:48:29,942
Mmm.

588
00:48:30,662 --> 00:48:31,102
Mmm.

589
00:48:31,842 --> 00:48:32,322
Mmm.

590
00:48:33,162 --> 00:48:33,962
Oh, my God.

591
00:48:34,802 --> 00:48:35,862
Oh, my gosh.

592
00:48:36,082 --> 00:48:36,402
Mmm.

593
00:48:36,542 --> 00:48:37,042
The dill.

594
00:48:38,162 --> 00:48:38,602
Mmm.

595
00:48:39,042 --> 00:48:39,402
Mmm.

596
00:48:39,422 --> 00:48:40,062
The dill pickle.

597
00:48:40,442 --> 00:48:40,602
Now,

598
00:48:41,602 --> 00:48:42,902
Yes?

599
00:48:43,082 --> 00:48:46,302
Which mushroom powered the growth of that pickle is my question to Brandon.

600
00:48:46,462 --> 00:48:46,882
You know what I mean?

601
00:48:47,522 --> 00:48:47,762
Like,

602
00:48:48,922 --> 00:48:52,722
clearly there was a mushroom underneath wherever those cucumbers were growing.

603
00:48:52,902 --> 00:48:53,162
Clearly.

604
00:48:53,402 --> 00:48:53,782
You know what I mean?

605
00:48:53,782 --> 00:48:59,542
What information is my body receiving from the mushrooms that helped

606
00:48:59,782 --> 00:49:05,502
to grow the cucumbers wow and all that stuff about the chem being chemistry dude i'm gonna

607
00:49:05,502 --> 00:49:12,442
yeah i'm gonna i'm about to go listen to all of brandon's talk about it for like days now so yeah

608
00:49:12,442 --> 00:49:18,102
yeah because i actually remember listening to an episode you did i think with danny on what

609
00:49:18,102 --> 00:49:23,762
bitcoin did that came out maybe around halloween or christmas because i remember i was hanging

610
00:49:23,762 --> 00:49:29,782
candles from our sun porch to make it look like the harry potter great hall in there

611
00:49:29,782 --> 00:49:35,502
cool and i was like this dude's going talking about some mushrooms it was insane now i'm gonna

612
00:49:35,502 --> 00:49:42,082
go back and listen to all this stuff um that was delicious brandon have you ever had any ithaca

613
00:49:42,082 --> 00:49:49,582
before no i have not and quick note i recommend the show with preston uh preston pish we did a

614
00:49:49,582 --> 00:49:56,362
full mycology only presentation or podcast that was very good. And so that's like the densest

615
00:49:56,362 --> 00:50:02,562
version of these ideas. I think that exists on the internet. Yeah, I was chatting with Preston at

616
00:50:02,562 --> 00:50:07,822
Sailor's place a couple years ago, just like having lunch on a table or whatever. And we

617
00:50:07,822 --> 00:50:12,922
started talking about biology and we had a similar chat. I just went on a rant and he's like, okay,

618
00:50:13,402 --> 00:50:17,982
you convince me to learn more. Cool. Read this book. He reads the book a month later. He's like,

619
00:50:17,982 --> 00:50:22,902
I can't stop thinking about it. Let's talk. And so that was a very fun episode recommended.

620
00:50:23,682 --> 00:50:29,222
No, I have not had that brand of hummus. I enjoy. I enjoy hummus. Tell me about it.

621
00:50:29,922 --> 00:50:34,022
Well, Ithaca hummus dot com is all you need to know, man. Find where it is near you.

622
00:50:34,022 --> 00:50:38,562
Get some. Try any flavor. It's that's all you need to know.

623
00:50:38,762 --> 00:50:43,322
If you are not going to make your own hummus, which these days, not many people.

624
00:50:43,722 --> 00:50:46,942
Oh, wow. OK, so you do make your. OK, well, now I got a taste test.

625
00:50:46,942 --> 00:50:49,442
I should have actually guessed that he makes his own hummus.

626
00:50:49,682 --> 00:50:50,642
I don't know what I was thinking.

627
00:50:51,502 --> 00:50:56,302
But if you, for some reason, decide not to make your own hummus,

628
00:50:57,082 --> 00:50:59,562
this is the absolute best hummus.

629
00:51:00,822 --> 00:51:04,222
I mean, I would say probably period across all.

630
00:51:04,302 --> 00:51:05,042
It's frigging delicious.

631
00:51:05,362 --> 00:51:05,702
Oh, yeah.

632
00:51:05,842 --> 00:51:06,342
Just try it out.

633
00:51:06,342 --> 00:51:09,162
They don't use a lot of tahini, which is really nice.

634
00:51:09,342 --> 00:51:10,702
So it doesn't fill all.

635
00:51:11,162 --> 00:51:13,542
You don't get that weird like tahini aftertaste.

636
00:51:13,822 --> 00:51:16,322
And it's all flavor moving forward.

637
00:51:16,322 --> 00:51:20,022
I mean like this would be great on a sandwich like we're getting to like the summertime where

638
00:51:20,022 --> 00:51:27,782
it's like prime sami season and I like love me some like buffalo chicken sami with Havarti cheese

639
00:51:27,782 --> 00:51:32,902
and then the lemon dill yeah I mean it replaces mayonnaise in almost all cases and the founder is

640
00:51:32,902 --> 00:51:45,982
a big corner now let's uh the the there is um expeller pressed sunflower oil and

641
00:51:45,982 --> 00:51:53,982
you would need to get the collaboration with graza in order to have an olive oil hummus which

642
00:51:53,982 --> 00:52:03,342
to my understanding is not a seed oil correct oh i have had ithika i lied i've had the ithika

643
00:52:03,342 --> 00:52:08,322
graza hummus the exact one you described yeah okay that one's pretty yum that one's good that

644
00:52:08,322 --> 00:52:13,222
one's pretty yummy as well and the the the the non-seed oil peeps they like that they like that

645
00:52:13,222 --> 00:52:18,242
one yeah all right now we have something that also has no seed oils in it whatsoever for you

646
00:52:18,242 --> 00:52:28,402
to choose from that was my segue that was a nice segue yeah that was so smooth guys it really was

647
00:52:28,402 --> 00:52:38,762
i uh didn't take that like pass off nicely my bad guys um this brings us to our cash versus sats

648
00:52:38,762 --> 00:52:49,102
decision powered by salt and our own one two three sean nice yeah we're getting better i like number

649
00:52:49,102 --> 00:52:53,702
one twenty three you got one two three that's because you used to say one two three okay yeah

650
00:52:53,702 --> 00:52:59,242
anyway uh at sat chats we believe in value for value and in exchange for your time and coming

651
00:52:59,242 --> 00:53:05,162
on our show we would like to give you your choice between fifty dollars in fiat or fifty dollars

652
00:53:05,162 --> 00:53:12,002
and big quorum at today's exchange rate is 72,552 satoshis.

653
00:53:12,662 --> 00:53:13,882
What would you like to choose?

654
00:53:14,282 --> 00:53:16,502
You already know. Send me the sats, baby.

655
00:53:16,982 --> 00:53:18,662
Send him the sats, dude.

656
00:53:18,982 --> 00:53:22,742
I'm going to throw the sats into the leaves of a dying oak.

657
00:53:23,102 --> 00:53:27,882
The oak's going to trade it with the mushrooms for some energy near the end of its life.

658
00:53:27,982 --> 00:53:31,622
The mushroom's going to shoot the satoshis over to a pine tree.

659
00:53:31,722 --> 00:53:32,002
For sure.

660
00:53:32,002 --> 00:53:36,442
And then the pine tree is going to trade it with a lightning bolt when it gets struck.

661
00:53:36,902 --> 00:53:37,262
Okay.

662
00:53:37,322 --> 00:53:41,982
It's going to go up into the sky and then yeet its way all the way into your wallet, dude.

663
00:53:42,102 --> 00:53:42,982
Oh, it's going to go rain.

664
00:53:43,522 --> 00:53:48,502
It's going to fall down as rain on Brandon's garden, which he has now that he's stationary.

665
00:53:48,822 --> 00:53:49,102
Yes.

666
00:53:49,162 --> 00:53:50,802
That's going to go into his cucumbers.

667
00:53:51,122 --> 00:53:51,342
Correct.

668
00:53:51,542 --> 00:53:51,902
Okay.

669
00:53:52,542 --> 00:53:53,242
They'll get to you.

670
00:53:53,262 --> 00:53:53,982
It's going to be amazing.

671
00:53:54,742 --> 00:53:57,302
So, Brandon, where can our Satoshi...

672
00:53:57,302 --> 00:54:04,202
First of all, you do bring our scoreboard to 194 that have stacked the Satoshis along with 10 that have chosen the cash.

673
00:54:04,322 --> 00:54:06,762
So we were absolutely dunking on.

674
00:54:06,782 --> 00:54:07,682
I love how you like dipped.

675
00:54:07,802 --> 00:54:09,842
I want to make sure because I was blocking the three.

676
00:54:10,622 --> 00:54:13,982
Where can our Satillionaires go to spend more time with you and with Swan Bitcoin?

677
00:54:15,062 --> 00:54:15,762
Yeah, absolutely.

678
00:54:15,942 --> 00:54:18,802
All my essays are at brandonquittum.com.

679
00:54:19,382 --> 00:54:26,122
There's a very long one called the Mycelium of Money, which covers much more than what we covered here, but similar topics.

680
00:54:26,122 --> 00:54:39,422
And then the other one to point out for biology is called the Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species, which is exploring the mining side of Bitcoin specifically through the biology lens, more of a population ecology lens, but similar stuff.

681
00:54:39,502 --> 00:54:40,082
You'll like both.

682
00:54:41,122 --> 00:54:43,642
The only social platform I'm active on is Twitter.

683
00:54:44,282 --> 00:54:46,042
So bequittim is the handle there.

684
00:54:46,142 --> 00:54:46,882
Come say hello.

685
00:54:47,082 --> 00:54:47,842
DMs open.

686
00:54:48,142 --> 00:54:50,282
If you want to nerd out about this stuff, let me know.

687
00:54:51,222 --> 00:54:55,602
It's my not-so-secret mission to mushroom pill all the Bitcoiners.

688
00:54:56,122 --> 00:55:00,922
And I think we're doing a good job today. And, you know, I feel good about that.

689
00:55:01,262 --> 00:55:10,322
If you want to get if you want to get buying some Bitcoin, you live in the United States, head over to Swan dot com or download the Swan app on the app store there.

690
00:55:10,642 --> 00:55:15,942
You can buy Bitcoin through a personal account. You can onboard an entity account. You can buy it in your IRA.

691
00:55:16,702 --> 00:55:22,302
You can custody with Swan Vault, which is our two of three collaborative multi-sig.

692
00:55:22,842 --> 00:55:29,082
If you want a one-on-one rep to talk you through the Bitcoin stuff, kind of like your Bitcoin advisor, come to Swan.

693
00:55:29,182 --> 00:55:36,502
You'll get paired up one-on-one with one of our reps, help you understand the market changes, how to do your custody, any of that Bitcoin stuff.

694
00:55:36,622 --> 00:55:39,962
We got a whole team of experts here to help our clients one-on-one.

695
00:55:40,622 --> 00:55:45,782
And I think that's the best way to understand Swan compared to a Coinbase or Robinhood or Cash App.

696
00:55:46,222 --> 00:55:48,002
Those are mass scaled platforms.

697
00:55:48,342 --> 00:55:48,982
They're fine.

698
00:55:49,302 --> 00:55:50,482
They're great places to start.

699
00:55:50,482 --> 00:55:52,322
You can buy small amounts, no problem.

700
00:55:52,802 --> 00:55:58,542
But once you want to take Bitcoin a little bit deeper, I think a platform like Swan is where you want to end up.

701
00:55:59,062 --> 00:56:01,102
You get the full suite of financial services.

702
00:56:01,342 --> 00:56:06,422
You get Bitcoin native experts, Bitcoin only platform, et cetera, to support your Bitcoin journey.

703
00:56:07,442 --> 00:56:08,262
Let's go.

704
00:56:08,562 --> 00:56:09,002
Fantastic.

705
00:56:09,502 --> 00:56:10,222
All right, Abe's.

706
00:56:10,462 --> 00:56:10,842
All right.

707
00:56:10,942 --> 00:56:16,682
So, Tillionaires, if you have enjoyed today's show, I'm going to hand that to my very own Vanna White.

708
00:56:16,682 --> 00:56:24,062
click the subscribe button at your chance to be entered in or i guess that's your you're in it

709
00:56:24,062 --> 00:56:30,182
yeah yeah when you click subscribe to win this silver coin collectible with satoshi on the front

710
00:56:30,182 --> 00:56:39,402
and a qr code to 50 000 sats on the other side from crypto link coins when we get to 3 000

711
00:56:39,402 --> 00:56:44,762
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712
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713
00:56:50,242 --> 00:56:55,382
show, you can do so in our show notes below. And Sat Chats is for educational purposes only and

714
00:56:55,382 --> 00:57:01,662
should not be construed as financial advice. And our guest views are there. And until next time,

715
00:57:01,662 --> 00:57:03,262
Stacking Them Sat.

716
00:57:14,762 --> 00:57:15,262
you