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The "What is Money?" Show

Nostr and Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism with Jameson Lopp (WiM325)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jameson Lopp joins me to discuss the development of Nostr, the significance of network protocol ossification, the implementation of Miniscript, and toxic Bitcoin maximalism.

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And, you know, I am a, I'm a free market maximalist.

0:03.6

Yeah.

0:03.9

So I do try to listen to the market and react appropriately.

0:09.5

But the point that I was getting at is at least like in terms of like developer activity

0:15.2

and friendliness, it's hard to argue that Ethereum doesn't have like a more vibrant developer

0:20.7

ecosystem. Like there's just like a more vibrant developer ecosystem.

0:21.6

Like there's just a lot more experimentation going on.

0:24.6

Now, of course, I would also argue, sure, a lot of them are really stupid ideas and scams and so on and so forth.

0:29.6

But if you want to innovate and you want to find the really cool stuff, you got to let people do a lot of really dumb, stupid stuff and fail.

0:37.6

Right, right.

0:38.2

And I want to see people doing the dumb stupid stuff on Bitcoin.

0:43.2

Gotcha.

0:43.7

Okay.

0:44.2

Or at least tied to Bitcoin.

0:45.9

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:46.6

That makes a lot of sense.

0:51.6

Hey, everybody. Welcome to The What is Money Show. I am thrilled to have you here joining me on my

1:01.4

mission to help shine light on the collection of money. Now, if this is your first time listening

1:06.5

to The What Is Money Show, I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes one through nine first,

1:12.9

which lays a lot of the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show.

1:17.0

These first nine episodes are my series with Michael Saylor, and thousands of people have told me

1:22.5

that this is the best podcast series they've ever heard, hands down, and that it was instrumental to their understanding

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