David's Takes: The Burning Man Network State
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🗓️ 10 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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David just got back from the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, where, for one week of the year, tens of thousands of people congregate for the annual Burning Man festival.
The parellels Crypto and Burning Man are strong, but it's not until participating in both that you can concretely grasped why. So, David went to Burning Man to go see what all of the excitement was about.
And Bankless Nation… like Crypto, Burning Man is a rabbit hole.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's take is a big take. |
| 0:19.6 | This is one of the larger, longer articles I've written in a while, and it's because |
| 0:24.1 | there's so much to say. |
| 0:26.3 | This week we're talking about Burning Man. |
| 0:29.0 | Yep. |
| 0:30.0 | This take is about understanding Burning Man through the crypto lens. |
| 0:33.9 | Burning Man for crypto people, if you will. |
| 0:36.4 | And maybe on the surface at a cursory glance, you're like WTF. |
| 0:40.4 | What does crypto have to do with Burning Man? |
| 0:42.6 | Burning Man isn't for me. |
| 0:43.6 | I don't care about that. |
| 0:45.1 | And if that's your response, that is totally fine. |
| 0:47.5 | This piece is not written to convince you to go to Burning Man or become a burner or |
| 0:53.3 | live anything like that life. |
| 0:54.9 | You are free to remain exclusively committed to whatever lifestyle that you already have. |
| 0:59.4 | Yet, nonetheless, the Burning Man movement is worthy of your understanding. |
| 1:06.2 | There are lessons and knowledge to be gained here in understanding why Burning Man is |
| 1:11.2 | a thing and what powers it. |
| 1:14.3 | Burning Man and crypto are cut from the same cloth. |
| 1:17.4 | We are parallel movements. |
| 1:19.2 | So if you never intend on going to Burning Man, but you're still intellectually curious |
| 1:23.4 | about what goes on there and want to learn about how to fit it into your pre-existing |
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