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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#607: Bitcoin Is Written In Our DNA with Jesse Myers

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Jesse Myers to discuss the key behavioral mutation behind the dominance of our species over other early humans.


Jesse on Twitter: https://x.com/Croesus_BTC

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0:00 - Intro

0:36 - How Jesse’s hypothesis differs from mainstream

8:19 - Szabo's shelling out and the fashion argument

15:36 - Fold & Coinkite

17:14- The hTKTL1 gene

27:03 - Overcoming Dunbar's Number

35:24 - Unchained Event

35:49 - Public record and barter

42:33 - Money allowed energy aggregation

51:27 - Developing more advanced money

55:35 - Bitcoin is the culmination of our species’ edge

1:01:39 - Fiat interregnum and bitcoin’s addressable market

1:10:33 - Digital age is an accelerant

1:16:34 - Final thoughts


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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins.

0:25.3

In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

All right, Jesse, welcome back to the studio good to be here it's good to see

0:40.2

you're not too far away but i don't see you that often yeah just an hour away but that's enough huh

0:44.2

yeah people really like uh really like the secluded nature of cities just right outside of

0:51.3

austin a little less crazy yeah yeah like were saying, the city's blowing up.

0:56.7

Yeah, it's unbelievable.

0:58.0

You know, I went to UT for my master's, and gosh, 15 years ago now.

1:04.1

And so, you know, seeing the level of change from 15 years ago to now, it's unbelievable.

1:08.7

Yeah.

1:09.6

And did you study neuroscience while you're at

1:12.7

UT or is that at Stanford? Yeah, neuroscience was undergrad at USC and then I couldn't get a job

1:21.0

because it was the great recession. I had a neuroscience degree and I wanted to get into business.

1:25.8

So I couldn't I couldn't get my foot in the

1:28.8

door anywhere. I was like, all right, I'll go get a one year business degree and I came here for

1:32.9

their master's of accounting, which was the best idea because it's the foundation of business.

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