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Episode #194 – States that Travel

By Anon

Aired Jul 29, 2026 · 32m · Last boosted Jul 29, 2026

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Being early and being wrong are the same position, and the original Bitcoin thesis, the one that expected people to figure it out quickly, was 90 percent wrong. Out of that error comes a working definition of value, and underneath it a definition of knowledge: arrangements that keep their shape as they travel between physical substrates and across time. The compensation for a world too busy to notice is the closing line: nobody knows yet, and that means you’re safe. Episode Summary The original thesis, the one Michael Saylor still narrates in interviews, held that pe...

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