Bitcoin Was Created By a Rogue AI with Sam Balter (Weird Work Podcast)

Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories

Lizard People

Paranormal, Religion & Spirituality, Conspiracytheory, Conspiracy, Comedy

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Bitcoin is one of the great mysteries of the internet age. Who exactly created it? Where is it going? How did it blow up so fast? What the fudge is a blockchain and why don’t I have one? The delightful Sam Balter (of the equally delightful podcast Weird Work) joins to talk about cryptocurrency and the possibility that the OG cryptic coin was created by - get this - a artificial intelligence. Yes, Sam thinks that a true AI lurks inside the internet like some sort of Smaug, but with bandwidth instead of gol

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0:00.0	The Hi, welcome to Lizard People. This is a show where we talk all about conspiracy theories,
0:22.2	crazy people, and kooky ideas. all about what's going on behind the scenes.
0:25.0	I'm your host Caitlin Hampstead.
0:29.7	Let's get to the show. Let's see the next one one one of them that I recorded recently was with a
0:49.0	Vintage Arcade technician who runs the museum of like old vintage games.
0:55.0	Vintage Arcade Games.
0:57.0	Where's the museum?
0:58.0	The biggest, it's at Fun Spot in New Hampshire.
1:02.0	Okay. And it's the largest collection of old arcade games in the
1:10.1	country potentially world. Wow that's so how do you,
1:14.8	oh my God, I can't wait, I'm excited to listen.
1:17.5	I just listen to the weed none.
1:21.4	Oh yeah, she was fucking dope. She was so cool. She was so cool and like so
1:27.3	intense like right from the start she was like it is our right to use the herbs that we I was like yes girl.
1:34.0	She was like I also like that like she used to be like some
1:38.8	fucking like hot shot consulted person and then just like leaves it all behind and now is like
1:44.0	living on this like weed done farm or whatever it's great I I sent my mom like my
1:50.5	mom listens to the episodes and she was like I'm moving to California
1:56.1	I'm joining the sisterhood these nuns are so much better than the nuns that I
2:00.7	knew like I'm excited.
2:02.8	You've got a cool mom, wow.
2:04.8	Yeah, my mom's dope, I like her.
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