The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss decentralization in blockchain projects, the historical context of decentralized organizations, the robustness it conveys but also the difficulties it engenders.
On today's podcast we apply concepts and stories from "The Spider and the Starfish: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations", a formational book on pre-blockchain decentralization written in the early 2000's, as the centralized US military struggled to effectively dispatch a much smaller decentralized force in Afghanistan. While the battlefield is different, the insight is perhaps even more relevant to the world of blockchain projects, their decentralized origins and ambitions.
Later, we discuss the similarities between decentralized organizations and the Buddha's concept of self.
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Credits for LTB#423A Final Discussion
Update 6/19/2022
SOB #502 When the Referees Play Favorites (Part 1)
SOB #501 When More Is Less
SOB #500 Three Rules to Remember After Mailchimp Breach
SOB #503 The Check Engine Light and the Space Shuttle
SOB #499 New Lessons From the Island of Stone Bitcoins
SOB #498 Rights Versus Privileges in a Global Financial System
Quick SOB Update (More frequent episodes coming... now)
SOB #496 The Ups and Downs of Crypto Loans
SOB #497 A Brief Look at Bitcoin Maximalism
SOB # 495 First Practices Aren’t Best Practices
SOB #494 Bitcoin Security and a Rogue Power Plant
SOB #493 The Endowment Effect, HODLing and the Impossible Self-Appraisal
SOB #492 Can Stablecoins Survive?
SOB #491 The Jokes Wear Thin as Inflation Becomes Normal
SOB #490 Checking in on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
SOB #489 Big Gaming Signals NFTS Are Closer to Mainstream
SOB #488 How Far We've Come (And How Much Stayed the Same)
SOB #487 If Facebook Can't Run A Global Currency, Who Could?
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