About this episode
In this episode, I chat with Scott Dedels, co-CEO of Block Reward, host of the Block Reward Podcast, and author of The Dao of Bitcoin: Towards a Cosmology of Energy Money. Together, we dive deep into the nature of time, monetary entropy, and Bitcoin’s role in reshaping our collective experience.
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00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Welcoming Scott Back!
06:05 – Bitcoin Alive 2025: The Value of Time
11:20 – Time, Money & Energy: The Fiat Trap
17:05 – Interstellar, Halvings & Bitcoin as a Clock
22:35 – Perception of Time & Sending Bitcoin to the Future
28:05 – The Tyranny of the Clock & Mechanical Time
33:20 – Consciousness, Dopamine & Fiat Anxiety
37:35 – Arrival, 4D Time & Transcending Linear Perception
43:05 – Housing, Real Estate & Fiat Distortions
48:50 – Architecture as a Time Capsule
53:35 – Utopian vs. Dystopian Sci-Fi & Collective Imagination
59:05 – Entropy: Thermodynamics, Information & Fiat Disorder
01:05:05 – Triunity: Time, Energy, Value in Bitcoin
01:11:05 – Bitcoin: Durable Across Time & Space
01:18:05 – Subjective Time & Caves Without Clocks
01:23:05 – Time as a Wealth Multiplier
01:25:05 – Freeing the Mind from Fiat Stress
01:27:05 – The Hundred Monkeys & Synchronizing Consciousness
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