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Donald McIntyre is a collaborator of Nick Szabo\\u2019s, and a man who left behind the world of mainstream finance (he previously worked at UBS Securities and Morgan Stanley) to embrace the cypherpunk ethos. He\\u2019s passionate about history of money, cypherpunk culture, natural sciences, and anthropology.

What makes this episode a must-listen: The crash course in cypherpunk history and the fact that Donald McIntyre knows Nick Szabo\\u2019s work so well that this interview is the single closest experience to having the Bit gold inventor himself on the show.

The element of surprise: The tribute to Tim May (the cypherpunk legend who passed one month before we recorded this interview) and the criticism of David Chaum\\u2019s Elixxir project. The interview definitely is very cypherpunk-oriented. Also, Mr. McIntyre mentions \\u201cTruth Coin\\u201d (Paul Sztorc) as a must-have guest \\u2014 thus establishing a goal that would take me eight seasons to accomplish.

Donald McIntyre talks about the anthropological and historical elements that led to the creation of Bitcoin, and reveals his\\xa0admiration and affinity for the works of Tim May and Nick Szabo.

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Topics and timestamps:\\xa0

0:50 \\u2013 Introduction

2:50 \\u2013 Was Bitcoin Inevitable?

6:45 \\u2013 Cypherpunks

7:50 \\u2013 Desire for Privacy and Sound Money

9:30 \\u2013 Money as Freedom

13:00 \\u2013 Trust Minimization

14:40 \\u2013 Nick Szabo's Social Scalability

18:30 \\u2013 Privacy and Intelligence Agencies

24:00 \\u2013 Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins

30:00 \\u2013 Comments on Centralized Projects

32:00 \\u2013 Views on Hyperbitcoinization

39:45 \\u2013 The 1% Wasn't First in Bitcoin

44:00 \\u2013 The Early Bitcoin Days

44:50 \\u2013 Bitcoin as a Biological Invention, Nick Szabo's Approach, The Origins of Money

57:00 \\u2013 Nick Szabo, Tim May, Wei Dai, Hal Finney, Satoshi Nakamoto

1:10:00 \\u2013 Bitcoin's Game Theory

1:15:00 \\u2013 Satoshi and Nick Szabo Are Just Like Newton and Leibnitz

1:19:00 \\u2013 What Was Tim May Like?

1:22:00 \\u2013 David Chaum

1:26:00 \\u2013 Cypherpunk Inventions

1:30:00 \\u2013 Tim May and Wei Dai on Violence

1:32:00 \\u2013 What Is Ethereum?

1:38:00 \\u2013 How ETC Supplements BTC

1:42:00 \\u2013 Bitcoin and Ethereum Classic in 10 Years

1:53:00 \\u2013 The Only Legitimate Hard Fork in Bitcoin

1:54:00 \\u2013 Governments and Bitcoin

1:58:00 \\u2013 Miners' Attacks on Bitcoin Supply and Block Reward