How Bitcoin and AI are Reshaping the World w/ Dave Birnbaum (WiM568)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Dave Birnbaum joins me to discuss why privacy is the most important technical problem in Bitcoin, the tradeoffs between auditability and anonymity, how CoinJoin protects users in a surveillance economy, whether cyberspace is the new frontier, the role of Bitcoin in enabling interplanetary civilization, and how AI and Bitcoin will coordinate to increase human productivity. David Birnbaum is a technology innovator and current VP of Product at Coinbits.app.

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0:00.0	Privacy is by far the most important technical problem to solve for Bitcoin.
0:05.3	I do think that is the most important problem to solve today.
0:10.4	Privacy is a human right and we should, you know, articulate that clearly.
0:14.2	We're not talking about criminals and terrorists.
0:16.8	Why do you have curtains on your windows?
0:18.7	Why do you wear clothes?
0:19.5	You have nothing to hide.
0:21.8	It's this whole idea of, oh, well, you can't trust people with freedom.
0:25.4	You give people freedom, they're going to do bad things.
0:27.4	So how do we remedy that?
0:28.5	We need to put people in power.
0:30.9	Right, your fundamental axiom is you can't trust people.
0:33.2	I was putting people on top of people going to solve that problem. You can actually just lock Bitcoin for 500 years and it's trivial.
0:40.3	Perhaps that could allow us to underwrite multi-generational projects.
0:44.3	There's the Qatar Depression Project plan to flood part of Egypt where nobody lives
0:50.3	and there's no wildlife at all with some Mediterranean seawater
0:53.3	and create an extension of the Mediterranean climate.
0:57.5	Maybe the reason we're all going crazy down here is because we've lost our frontier.
1:01.2	Lost the frontier.
1:02.0	There's nowhere to go.
1:03.2	Do you consider cyberspace to be a frontier?
1:06.1	No, I think it needs to be physical.
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