adam on Nostr: There's a pattern in the bitcoin space: skeptical, first-principles thinkers keep ...

There's a pattern in the bitcoin space: skeptical, first-principles thinkers keep turning to Christianity.

Full episode w/ @jimmysong out now.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:48 Begging his dad for a Commodore 16, then learning BASIC from a pregnant tutor
14:27 Writing two-hour emails in college made him a better thinker
23:53 2008 and Ron Paul's End the Fed turned a coder into a libertarian
26:43 The five-person email list that became his first Bitcoin community
33:38 Nobody predicting AI's future actually has a clue what it will become
40:11 The COVID Bible study that became Thank God for Bitcoin
48:56 Bitcoiners keep converting to Christianity through slow, methodical study
1:03:44 Judges over Kings, and what Israel lost by demanding a ruler
1:07:19 René Girard, mimetic rivalry, and why kings function as sacrificial scapegoats
1:13:08 The pattern of losing VP candidates as modern-day scapegoats
1:20:03 Coming to terms with sin is the real barrier for Bitcoiners meeting Christ