S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism

S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism

Released Wednesday, 16th April 2025
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S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism

S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism

S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism

S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism

Wednesday, 16th April 2025
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In 2014, Daniel Krawisz was one of the most prolific Bitcoin writers: he published some excellent articles with the Nakamoto Institute, and most of them are still relevant. Today, he prefers BSV and believes that Craig Wright is Satoshi. What changed?

Time stamps:

Time stamps:

00:00:50 - Introducing Daniel Krawisz

00:02:40 - Bitcoin Takeover

00:05:30 - Scaling Bitcoin

00:09:30 - Soft Forks vs. Hard Forks

00:14:10 - Running a Bitcoin Node and Privacy

00:18:10 - Verifying Transactions

00:20:00 - Miner Centralization

00:24:40 - Bitcoin Core Ideology

00:29:00 - Fungibility

00:30:30 - Ross Ulbricht

00:38:55 - Bitcoin's Competitive Advantage

00:44:00 - Bitcoin and Legality

00:48:50 - Sound Money and Friendship

00:50:40 - Satoshi Nakamoto's Identity

00:57:20 - Craig Wright's Teachings

01:00:40 - Leaving the Nakamoto Institute

01:03:40 - Investors vs. Entrepreneurs

01:06:00 - The Nature of Bitcoin

01:12:15 - Bitcoin's Value

01:14:40 - Market Efficiency

01:16:20 - Bitcoin vs. Gold

01:21:15 - BSV Adoption

01:24:00 - BSV's Success Metrics

01:28:20 - Hash Rate and Miner Incentives

01:30:30 - Market Efficiency and Truth

01:33:55 - BSV's Future

01:37:00 - BSV vs. BCH

01:40:10 - Mempool

01:42:40 - BSV Mining and Jurisdictions

01:46:45 - BSV vs. CBDC

01:52:35 - Privacy and Mixing in BSV

02:00:03 - Security and Probabilistic Thinking

02:01:21 - Capitalism, Monopoly, and BSV

02:05:01 - Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and BSV

02:07:28 - BSV's Role and Traceability

02:08:14 - Traceable vs. Non-Traceable Money

02:08:54 - Anarcho-Capitalism and Private Services

02:15:07 - Cypherpunk Literature and Privacy vs. Compliance

02:18:12 - Anonymity, Privacy, and Traceability in BSV

02:24:49 - Layer 2 Solutions and Scalability

02:32:35 - Narcissism

02:42:46 - Narcissism and Financial Scammers

02:48:14 - Avoiding Cults and Narcissistic Relationships

02:52:23 - Benefiting from Narcissistic Relationships

02:53:13 - Narcissists in Bitcoin/Crypto

02:54:37 - Relationship with Nakamoto Institute

03:00:14 - Appreciation and Book Recommendations

03:00:48 - Hayao Miyazaki and Narcissism

03:04:40 - Current Reading List

03:39:20 - Stance on 2017 Block Size Wars

03:40:45 - Book Project Idea

03:47:04 - Plato, Socrates, and Propaganda

03:53:07 - Diogenes and Libertarianism

03:55:15 - Final Book Recommendations

04:00:01 - Narcissism and Self-Awareness

04:00:40 - Denouncement of Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum

04:01:17 - Competition Between Monies

04:02:55 - Changes in the Bitcoin Space

04:04:40 - New Altcoins and Tokens

04:04:54 - Bitcoin Year One Manga

04:05:29 - Podcast Invitation and Appreciation

04:09:08 - Sponsors

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