#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Nic Carter is a financial researcher, investor, writer, and podcaster on topics of decentralized finance. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – The Information: https://theinformation.com/lex to get 75% off first month – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil – Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off – Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium EPISODE LINKS: Nic’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nic__carter Nic’s Website: https://niccarter.info/ Nic’s Blog: https://medium.com/@nic__carter Nic’s Podcast: https://onthebrink-podcast.com/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS:

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Nick Carter, who is a partner at Castle Island Ventures,
0:05.8	co-founder of CoinMetrics.io and previously a crypto asset research analyst at Fidelity
0:12.0	Investments.
0:13.4	He's a prominent writer, speaker, and podcaster on topics around decentralized finance and
0:19.7	especially Bitcoin.
0:22.3	Quick mention of our sponsors, the Information, Athletic Greens, Forcigmatic, and Blinkist.
0:29.2	Check them out in the description to support this podcast.
0:32.9	This conversation with Nick Carter is part of a series of episodes on cryptocurrency that
0:37.4	is a small journey of exploration I'm on because I find decentralized finance and especially
0:42.6	Bitcoin fascinating, technically and philosophically, especially because it may be the very mechanism
0:49.3	that achieves a global decentralization of power, giving more sovereignty to the individual
0:55.4	and making our systems more resilient to corruption, manipulation, and in general to the darker
1:01.6	size of human nature.
1:03.5	Please let me also address something for a few minutes that happened recently that's
1:08.5	been weighing heavy on me.
1:10.5	If you find me annoying to listen to, please skip to the actual conversation with Nick.
1:15.1	I had a recent podcast episode with Anthony Pompliano, where we spoke about Bitcoin and life
1:22.1	in general for three hours.
1:23.9	I was curious, inspired, positive, or at least I tried to be as I usually do.
1:30.4	Someone clipped out out of context, a short segment of me mumbling something about having
1:35.6	a PhD, and I started getting mocked online because that made it convenient for people to
1:41.8	mock me for being yet another quote unquote expert who learns about Bitcoin and thinks
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