Chat_166 - The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace on Bitcoin News

About this episode

Guy Swann and Rob Wallace discuss the distractions surrounding Bitcoin, including quantum computing claims and conspiracy theories related to Jeffrey Epstein.

"The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don't know how to plan the world. We don't know what the solution is going to be. You can't have a central planner decide it.If it was really just that libertarians understood how the world worked, then you could have a central planner. You would just need them to be libertarians. That's not how it works at all. It's antithetical to the whole concept. That's why the Block Size War was such a huge success, because it did not hard-fork. It did not decide: 'Oh, if there is a schism in the community, one small group is going to be able to force it onto everybody else.'And that's exactly the thing that you actually need to have society's rules be sustainable, because otherwise, that's all you get. You get people who will violently disagree about the tiniest shit, and then they will put a gun to everybody else's head, and they will say: 'You just got to come along with me or you're screwed.'" ~ Guy Lately, it feels like an endless stream of noise tries to predict the death of Bitcoin. So I joined Rob Wallace on the Bitcoin News channel to cut through the panic and tackle the two loudest distractions: Google's latest…

People in this episode

Host: Guy Swann

Guest: Rob Wallace

Topics covered

• libertarianism
• Bitcoin
• quantum computing
• conspiracy theories
• Block Size War
• community dynamics

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• libertarianism
• quantum computing
• Block Size War
• Jeffrey Epstein
• community dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google

Books & works: Bitcoin

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