Parker Lewis
speaker
599 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Parker Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
The idea of one ounce needed to be standardized.
Gold, the element-
on its own is just an element.
Putting it into a standard unit, putting the stamp of a crown, you know, having a currency issuer that is turning into the coin, ensuring that there isn't counterfeit out there was a functional part of the role of the currency issuer relative to the money, that there actually was a distinction.
And
In the entire history of commodity metals, that has functionally been the case.
And like a gold bar that doesn't have the mark of a crown on it to this day is considered different.
It's not considered to be currency.
That's why they call it bullion.
Now, Bitcoin is unique because not only does it have this fixed supply and it has these monetary properties, but
The Bitcoin network does, and I'm not distinguishing between Bitcoin, the asset, and Bitcoin, the network.
I put those two things as one.
The network is not valuable without the currency.
The currency is dependent on having these nodes to be able to transmit money and the system to have final settlement.
But Bitcoin in its totality issues the money.
verifies all transactions, and has a standard unit baked in.
You don't need someone to create one ounce of gold.
You have one Satoshi.
And so for the first time, a form of money can be a currency as well, Bitcoin, because the Bitcoin network is capable of doing all of the things that a currency issuer was previously necessary for to refine money into something that was a utility in trade.
So it doesn't need the issuer.
Showing 401–420 of 599 · page 21 of 30
← Previous
Next →