BREAKDOWN: For What Future Are We Building Bitcoin?
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🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A reading of Meltem Demirors new essay “Unintended Architecture” asks some key questions about intention setting for the future of Bitcoin.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Bitcoin started as a rebellious, anti-establishment technology. In many parts of the world, and for many people, it remains exactly that.
At the same time, however, there is a wave of traditionalists and institutional players moving into the space.
Are they buying into the revolution, or are they trying to capture value while fitting the disruption into a box that maintains the current power structure they lead?
Those are the key questions explored by Meltem Demirors in her new essay “Unintended Architecture.” The piece is our selection for this week’s “Long Reads Sunday.”
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:05.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com, BitStamp, and nexo.io, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:14.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 2nd, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 1:20.6 | For this Long Read, I've chosen a recent post by Meltem de Mirrors, and really, I think the theme here is asking an important |
| 1:30.0 | question which can get lost really easily, especially in the swirl of excitement around |
| 1:35.6 | price action, like we've had this past week. And that question is simply, what is the future |
| 1:41.5 | that we're trying to build Bitcoin for? |
| 1:52.0 | How do we want the future that we are building this whole new system to enable to be different from the one that we live in now? |
| 1:57.7 | How do we design in such a way that we avoid the traps and the capture that happened in the system, |
| 2:01.2 | the things that made us want to build this different alternative in the first place. Some of these questions seem obvious, but they're actually incredibly difficult, |
| 2:05.6 | especially as more capital flows into the space, as more power aligns with the space. |
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