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.
Want more? Catch up on 7 years of Let's Talk Bitcoin!
Credits for LTB#423LTB #438 Bootstrapping Mobile Mesh Networks with Bitcoin Lightning
Let's talk Bitcoin! #437 Be Your Own Bank and the Luxury of Apathy
LTB #436 'We Need 30 Different Words for Different Kinds of Censorship'
LTB! #345: Bitcoin Miners, US Energy Producers and Moores Law
LTB #434: Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #433 Coronavirus Second Order Effects and Improving on Bitcoin With BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #432 How MakerDAO’s Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization
LTB #431 Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope
LTB #430 ‘Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized’ 6 Years Later
LTB #429 Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)
LTB # 428 Decentralization Philosophy – Does Crypto Still Need Catalysts?
LTB #427 Mainstream Moments and the CompuServe of Crypto
LTB #426 Bitcoin Taxes and Real World Scams!
LTB #425 Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project
LTB #424 What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users?
LTB #422 ‘The Internet Was Illegal’ and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
LTB 2020 Update (Looking for Jr. Producers!)
LTB #421 Stone Money and Echoes of the Past
How can public blockchains have privacy? | LTB #420 Dec 8, 2019
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Insight Story: Tech Trends Unpacked
Zero-Shot
Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future
The Unbelivable Truth - Series 1 - 26 including specials and pilot
Lex Fridman Podcast