Episode notes
Recorded 6/9/21
Bitcoin price at the time ~$36,500
Brandon Quittem is a writer, amateur mycologist, and the king of analogies. We cover a crazy range of subjects on the show spanning from mycology to Bitcoin’s energy consumption, to the fourth turning hypothesis, and absolutely everything in between!
Where to find Brandon:
@bquittem (https://twitter.com/Bquittem)
https://www.brandonquittem.com/
Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money (https://tinyurl.com/7mey8mu8)
Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History (https://tinyurl.com/3axupd8j)
1:45 - Brandon’s background
8:20 - Mycology interest and parallels to Bitcoin
18:00 - The economy of mushrooms
24:15 - Money, language, social scalability, and the sovereign individual
34:00 - El Salvador adopts Bitcoin
38:30 - Biology, proof of work, energy FUD and why the energy consumption of Bitcoin is good
47:15 - How pioneer species transform their ecosystem
57:15 - The fourth turning hypothesis and the long-term debt cycle
1:25:30 - The great filter and how it pertains to Bitcoin
1:39:30 - Can Bitcoin help humans get to Mars?
Resources mentioned:
Bitcoin white paper (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)
Swan Bitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/e3)
Cash App (https://cash.app/app/KWJSDQR)
Strike (https://invite.strike.me/21XVVW)
Planting Bitcoin - Dan Held (https://tinyurl.com/3yvme37y)
Lessons from fungi on markets and economics - Toby Kiers (https://tinyurl.com/3amc44d8)
Future Fossils ep. 163 (https://tinyurl.com/yjsznv8e)
Dunbar’s Number (https://tinyurl.com/yhdpdzx4)
Social Scalability - Nick Szabo (https://tinyurl.com/5mut8upd)
The Sovereign Individual - James Davidson (https://tinyurl.com/86c4c9m2)
El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin (https://tinyurl.com/aj8fvf3)
Gradually, Then Suddenly - Parker Lewis (https://tinyurl.com/mpkheny5)
How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? - Nic Carter (https://tinyurl.com/c2nck5a8)
Twitter Spaces with President Bukele (https://tinyurl.com/38hbemep)
Bitcoin mining in DRC (https://tinyurl.com/wr6bzszd)
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss (https://tinyurl.com/5fzp5s6e)
Bitcoin Astronomy - Dhruv Bansal (https://tinyurl.com/4v7zc7w)
