Bitcoin Wasn’t Invented by Satoshi, It Was Discovered | with Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale
Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale is a Bitcoin and cryptography researcher and former patent attorney.
Vitale joins Alex Buxeda to discuss why Bitcoin was discovered rather than invented, whether identity is just recognized pattern-persistence, and what forks and cryptoeconomics show about consensus, trust, and free will.
00:00 Was Bitcoin Invented or Discovered?
02:04 Identity as Consensus: The Bitcoin Analogy for the Self
04:21 No Free Will, Only Cause and Effect
06:49 Can Cognitive Ability Really Be Measured?
09:04 The "Cosmic Balance" Argument Against IQ
12:42 Should Markets Use G to Allocate…
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