Ep. 60 Bitcoin as a Pioneer Species w/ Brandon Quittem

In Ep 60, one of my favourite Bitcoiners in the world, Brandon Quittem joins me to talk about #Bitcoin as a Pioneer Species. He recently wrote an incredible essay, perhaps one of the GOAT's. Exploring Bitcoin & Mining Through the Lens of Ecology By @bquittem https://medium.com/@BrandonQuittem/38f42ecdbb88 In this episode, we explore ALOT. Why both Energy & Energy industry is widely misunderstand, How it results in poor decision making Big climate and ESG is a scam → we need to wake people up (otherwise they’re just agents waiting to be activated) Energy abundance SHOULD be universally desired (it fits the traditional progressive agenda, but they’re blind to it) GDP per capita = directly correlated to energy consumption Bitcoin mining is the hardest part of bitcoin Bitcoin mining is everything you don’t understand about energy combined with everything you don’t understand about Bitcoin. “There is no optimistic version of the future in which humanity does not use significantly more energy than it does today.” Symbiosis: Miners + Energy producers How life colonizes a desolate environment for the first time. Miners = Citadel seeds Central Planning VS Emergent Organic, Decentralised Calculation & Action. The idiots want to simplify humanity into a linear system, and the only way to do that is to transform diverse individuals into automatons, or numbers on a spreadsheet. We could just as easily be a failed experiment of life, but we won’t stop life 100bn people theory Energy mastery Stars & the Great Lie Explore VS Exploit Ecology is primarily about energy (base of pyramid is plants) Difficulty adjustment (isle royale) -- wolves vs moose Prediction 1: Bitcoin Mining leads to Energy Abundance Prediction 2: Early adopter countries will leapfrog laggards Prediction 3: The Great Spreading Out These citadels must succeed, for they have an important duty. They must preserve the spark of freedom, for I fear it’s more fragile than we know. Freedom is upstream of prosperity Must Read Books: Vaclac Smil: Energy & Civilisation Alex Epstein: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Bjorn Lomborg: False Alarm Thankyou @bquittem for this magnificent piece and this conversation,. The Bitcoin Times Ed 4 is now available for download, free. We will be publishing each edition, in high quality hard cover this year. Keep an eye out for announcements and remember to follow and support each of the authors. Share their work far & wide Follow Brandon here: https://twitter.com/BQuittem https://BrandonQuittem.com ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod You can follow my work at: - Twitter @GhostOfSvetski - IG @AleksSvetski - https://svetski.medium.com - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/aleksandarsvetski Check out  https://amber.app More coming soon!