Crypto Stories: Bitcoin as Political Technology with Dhruv Bansal

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, noon

b'Erik and his co-host Taylor Pearson (@TaylorPearsonMe), author of The End of Jobs, are joined by Dhruv Bansal (@dhruvbansal), co-founder of Unchained Capital.

On this episode they discuss a number of interesting topics, getting progressively \\u201cweirder\\u201d as they go along. In the beginning they get Dhruv\\u2019s take on the contrasts between Bitcoin and Ethereum and how the prevailing narrative around each of them affects how people perceive their strengths and weaknesses.

By the end, they\\u2019re discussing if it\\u2019s possible to have money if humans are an interstellar species and whether it\\u2019s possible that Satoshi is a time-traveller from the future.

In between, they cover a number of (equally) interesting topics, like Dhruv\\u2019s idea that blockchains are technologies for building political system\\u201d and why blockchain and Bitcoin are not actually a continuation of the internet, as they are commonly portrayed. Dhruv also explains what the \\u201cNakamoto Point\\u201d is, where he would be investing, and what his \\u201crequests for products\\u201d are in the space.

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