126 - The Crypto Revolution | Josh Rosenthal
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🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Josh Rosenthal is our favorite crypto native historian. He has a Ph.D. in history, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to the Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies.
Josh moved beyond traditional academia, sold some Web2 companies, and is now a crypto investor. He’s the historian that helped us craft the Crypto Renaissance podcast episode, which many people credit as the reason why they got into crypto.
And he’s here to do it again with the Crypto Revolution on the 4th of July, harkening a new independence day for the crypto nation.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
6:00 Josh Rosenthal
14:43 The Broad Themes of History
23:33 A Permissioned World
28:40 The Context of Revolution
36:21 Taxation and Value
42:30 The Revolutionary Goal
46:34 Launching an Experiment
50:51 Coordination
54:07 The Whiskey Rebellion
1:02:45 Flawed Policies
1:07:45 Net Improvements
1:16:28 Vocation
1:23:52 The Land of Opportunity
1:30:24 The Public Forum
1:37:50 Permissionless Building
1:45:40 Digital States
1:51:25 Make things easier
1:57:30 Get building
1:59:58 Help others
2:05:00 Closing
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Resources:
Josh Rosenthal
https://twitter.com/JoshuaRosenthal?s=20&t=_dhf5sZnqBpbG_SMeKcvrg
The Crypto Renaissance
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-crypto-renaissance-josh-rosenthal
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:11.5 | This is how to get started, how to get better, how to frontrun the opportunity. |
| 0:15.1 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless guys. |
| 0:20.7 | We have a fantastic episode for you. |
| 0:23.1 | The crypto revolution. |
| 0:24.9 | This is the sister episode to our favorite episode of all time called the crypto renaissance. |
| 0:29.9 | We have Josh Rosenfall, who's a PhD in history, who went through the parallels between the |
| 0:35.0 | original renaissance, historical renaissance in crypto. |
| 0:38.5 | Now today, on the 4th of July, Independence Day, we are going through the parallels of |
| 0:44.1 | crypto and the American revolution, calling this the crypto revolution, the lens that we |
| 0:49.3 | are applying today's house crypto, like early America. |
| 0:53.5 | How are you, like an early revolutionary? |
| 0:56.4 | So excited about this episode. |
| 0:57.8 | It was an absolute blast with Josh and I love these historical analogs, David. |
| 1:02.6 | What were a few of the takeaways from you? |
| 1:04.4 | We always joke on bankless. |
| 1:05.4 | We're speedrunning the history of money and finance and also human coordination. |
| 1:10.2 | And this is that last part where we did the crypto renaissance episode. |
| 1:13.8 | We compared and contrasted the way that crypto is very much like the renaissance. |
| 1:18.2 | And Josh makes the claim that the American revolution, Happy July 4th, everyone, is the |
| 1:23.1 | logical conclusion of the renaissance. |
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