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#423LTB #419 Altcoins and Ancient History with Charlie Lee
LTB#418 Statechains, and Trading the Panopticon for Magical Internet Money
LTB #417 Adoption and Mimicry on the Blockchain
LTB! Update (Season 2 Coming Soon!)
LTB#416 Why?
LTB #415 A Domino Effect
LTB #414 Let's Talk Bitcoin! Live Q&A
LTB #413 Origin Stories and Earned Experience
LTB #412 Let's Talk Bitcoin Live!
LTB #411c Growing to Fit
LTB #410 Before the Flood
LTB #409 Another Perspective on India
LTB #408 Bitcoin Game Theory for Countries
LTB #407 India's Catch-22 & How to Work With Money when Money Doesn't Work
Thailand, FATF and the US Treasury's Concerns - Token Rumors Pilot Episode
LTB#406 Hyperinflation, Official, and HODL Currencies (or, "Incentives are Destiny")
LTB #405 It's All Bitcoin
LTB #404 Crypto Plastic & Bitcoin's 90/10 in India
LTB #403 Efficiency and Timing
LTB #402 The Whole Crypto Game Just Changed
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