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Send us Fan Mail You can read and write, but you can't code? You are illiterate. This will be the case in the very near future, and while it may not matter for older generations, kids who don't learn to code will be at a massive disadvantage. There is a reason Computer Science is the least regretted major post-graduation. In this episode we discuss the value of coding, probabilistic vs d...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard of our lord and savior, Bitcoin? The similarities between bitcoin and religion are many. Both give people hope, both have extremely devout believers willing to die for their beliefs, both have apostles who spread the good word to others--but only one grants immortality by offering an afterlife. In this episode, we discuss and compare Bitcoin to religions, and even v...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we break down the moral points made throughout the batman trilogy, starting with Ra's al Ghul telling Bruce that his parents death was his father's fault, while Bruce believes it is the criminal's fault, yet in court, the lawyers argue it was society's failure that caused this situation to exist in the first place. Whatever your answer is, it ap...

Send us Fan Mail We all have a tendency to romanticize the past--whether it was actually good or bad, beautiful or ugly--we remember it with rose-tinted glasses. Is romanticism then a healthy coping mechanism to make us happier in our lives? On the other hand, our romantic ideas of things often don't match reality. So is it dangerous, or do we forfeit control over our lives when we romanticiz...

Send us Fan Mail We have found a way to bypass the debt ceiling (which is an artificial ceiling anyway) without needing to wait for congress' approval: print the trillion dollar platinum coin. Apparently, this was never just a meme. In this episode we discuss the implications of the trillion dollar coin, our debt ceiling, the pros and cons of printing the coin, and more. Has America finally r...

Send us Fan Mail With risk comes reward, but also liability. If we remove any worthwhile reward, we remove the incentive to take risk and assume liability, which causes stagnation. The modern workplace is a game of who can minimize their liability the most--this also involves doing the least amount of work. The more work you do, the more likely you are to make a mistake; the more work you have, th...

Send us Fan Mail Can a lie be morally wrong, but just? And if so, how can we know if a lie is just? "All warfare is based on deception" -Sun Tzu Yet militaries espouse honor as their greatest value. In this episode we explore the nuances of lying, analyzing who you are lying to, the effect of the lie, what type of society you live in (are you in a den of thieves?) and more.

Send us Fan Mail Nostr is a decentralized protocol and social media network that allows users to share ideas without risk or threat of censorship. Users can run the client (application) and interact through number of different formats such as a twitter-clone or telegram-clone to name the more popular ones. Key differences from twitter: No ads, no banning or censorship, no algorithm for displaying...

Send us Fan Mail Recapping 2022: The most gruesome Bitcoin Bear Market yet. Some hardcore Bitcoiners capitulating (Bitcoin TINA). Others like Michael Saylor washing his Bitcoin (still legal as of 2022). Is it morally wrong that Michael Saylor encouraged people to buy BTC at 16k, 30k, 60k? Or is it more immoral to encourage people to trade based on sentiment?  Looking into 2023: Macro-economic outl...

Send us Fan Mail The entire world has conspired to convince you something is true that is in fact, not true--figures of authority, your closest friends, your loved ones--everyone is in on it except for you.  No, you aren't Jim Carrey on the Truman Show, you are yourself at five years old during Christmas time. Some zoomers think its traumatizing and evil, we think its fun.  But we all agree a...

Send us Fan Mail Apostle Fat Stacks joins us to discuss current happenings within the Crypto ecosystem and the economy at large. We discuss BTC current price within its halving cycle, the effect of FTX selling "paper Bitcoin," where our economy is headed with the fed's current rate-hikes and how long they will continue, and more. Since recording, SBF has been arrested in the Bahamas...

Send us Fan Mail Everything in life, whether its social interactions, work, finance, office politics, or anything else--is a game.  The winners are those who can best identify the mechanics of the game and exploit them in order to win. Are video games then a healthy way to repeatedly practice identifying mechanics and winning, and does this have cross-over benefits into real life? What are the ris...

Send us Fan Mail What are the problems with our current education system, and how do we fix them? In this episode we discuss: -The purpose of education -New grading scales -Participation Trophies -Gamification of education -Grades vs Test Scores as a measure of intelligence / hard work -Absence of free-market for education -How to fix it And more.

Send us Fan Mail The highest level of philosophy, captured in a podcast episode, and distilled into laymen's terms so all can understand: this episode questions and discusses topics ranging from how we arrive at knowledge to what certainty we can know anything.   Possibly the greatest philosophical discussion since the turn of the century, we discuss whether math is purely logical--and if it...

Send us Fan Mail Best video game of all time? We all know the answer already.. Are video games good for you?  Better than TV/movies? Better than reading? What makes them fun? Do guys or girls spend more time gaming? Is crypto the future of gaming, and the key to the metaverse? We cover all these important topics, and more.

Send us Fan Mail FTX, the 4th largest crypto exchange in the world, declares bankruptcy. We answer: Who is Sam Bankman-Fried? Why did the FTX token (FTT) crash? Was he sending FTX customer funds to his friends' investment group Alameda Research? Why do traditional banks receive government bailouts but not crypto banks? Will FTX's bankruptcy cause a chain of failures? And more Latest info...

Send us Fan Mail Is code going to replace our legal system, or is code better compared to natural laws that we have no choice but to follow? In this episode we discuss: What is meant by 'code is law' The Oracle Problem How does Bitcoin solve the Oracle Problem What problems shitcoins/NFTs are attempting to solve

Send us Fan Mail "Capitalist" America's workplaces have become increasingly socialist.  In socialist societies, the creed stands: "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."  This naturally raises the issue of who determines who is most in need? quickly devolving into the people at the top in the socialist society helping out their friends and...

Send us Fan Mail Is the feudal system superior to our democratic republic? If so, for whom? The aristocrats, the plebeians, the king? Many Bitcoiners believe it is superior for all and some even believe our political system will inevitably switch to feudalism as we approach hyperbitcoinization. In this episode we discuss -the incentive structure of both feudalism and a democratic republic -whether...

Send us Fan Mail Does Anarchy = Chaos? Does a laissez-faire economic system result in a disorganized economy? A Laissez-faire economy relies on natural incentives to drive human behavior which results in the most efficient market.  Free market economists argue that any attempt to centrally control or direct the economy serves only to create inefficiencies. Why should we believe the rules of human...

Send us Fan Mail A Bitcoin civil war took place from 2015-2017.  In this episode we discuss the parties involved, what the war was fought over, who won and lost, how it all unfolded, and what it means for the future of Bitcoin.

Send us Fan Mail Capitalism incentivizes selfish behavior--is this a problem? In this episode we discuss the incentive structures of both capitalism and socialism, the pros and cons, and why capitalism "in theory" differs so much from the capitalism we experience in the United States.

Send us Fan Mail Cultural productions: movies, arts, entertainment--all seem to be trending in the same negative direction.  But what is the cause?  Rings of Power is awful, but Lord of the Rings was good.  Cobra Kai steadily declines over seasons 2-5, but season 1 was great.  It's called woke-ism, and its the opposite of being based in reality. In this episode, we explore why woke-ism is so...

Send us Fan Mail Eth merge: pump time or dump time? In this episode we discuss what effect the Ethereum merge will have on both the Ethereum network, and the macro crypto market -whether proof of stake is or ever can be decentralized -hodlnaut vs faketoshi -the merits and morality of using NFTs for fund-raising as suggested by Kraken's Jesse Powell -slave morality vs master morality (Nietzsch...

Send us Fan Mail Behaviorism is the belief that all human behavior is either classically or operantly conditioned.  Don't know what that means? That's OK: we break it down into layman's terms. In this episode we discuss how behaviorism fits in the ongoing Bitcoin twitter war between empiricism and rationalism, how it fits into recent policies such as student loan repayment and PPP l...