Erik Cason Joins me for an in-depth conversation exploring some of his written works and Kantian philosophy related to the nature of truth and power in the context of Bitcoin’s emergence.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTErik’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ErikcasonErik’s Website: http://cryptosovereignty.org/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Military Value of Cryptoassets00:05:09 Bitcoin as a Refusal of the Praxis of Violence00:08:40 Physical Power vs. Political Power00:11:58 The Nature of True Crypto-Sovereignty00:16:00 Encountering Truth and Emergence of the Cyphernet00:21:00 Money as the Prime Mover; Organizations are Applications of Money00:25:07 The Incentives Underlying Statism00:29:21 Satoshi as Homo Sacer00:35:54 Satoshi as a Pioneer of a New Digital Continent00:43:01 Bitcoin Kicking Off the “Knife Fight Between Nation-States”00:48:37 Agape and the Encounter with the “Perfect Other”00:57:48 Human Nature: A Core Component of Bitcoin01:01:04 NYDIG01:02:12 An Economic Machine of Truth Requires Proof-of-Work01:07:54 Bitcoin is Parasiticide to Bureaucracy01:17:05 Reimagining the Meta-Structures Superimposed on Power Relations01:21:31 The Inversion of Politics: “Truth, Not Authority, Makes Legitimacy”01:32:06 Physics-Rooted Encryption Bringing Humans Nearer to Natural Law?01:40:23 Enlightenment as the Emergence of Nonage01:47:24 All Human Decrees by Fiat are Attempts at Playing God01:58:22 A Hopeful Vision for the Adaptation of Statism to Bitcoin02:02:02 Enlightenment Requires the Free Use of Human Reason02:11:11 Bitcoin as the Only Antidote to the Self-Deception of Fiat02:16:09 3% Global Adoption as a Catalyst to Hyperbitcoinization?02:21:21 “Righteous Anger is that which is Directed at Resolution”02:27:11 The Risk of a Core Error in Bitcoin02:29:20 The Paradoxical Concourse of Human PoliticsSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

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