Hey, everyone.

I am thrilled to be joined by Mr. Eric Weinstein today on the What is Money Show, where I think

we're going to get into some very deep, fascinating, and potentially complicated topics.

Eric, welcome to the show.

Robert, it is thrilling to be here.

Always a little bit nerve-wracking because the Bitcoin community is seldom unopinionated.

But it's a really interesting community with lots of voices that I think highly

of. So this is going to be fun. Well, I think you're, there's a lot of opinions out there,

especially in Bitcoin community. Instead of being strong opinions loosely held, they seem to be

strong opinions strongly held. But I try to hold on a little bit more loosely held. They seem to be strong opinions strongly held. But I try to

try to hold on a little bit more loosely myself. And so I hope that our conversation today

can help shed some light on reality, as you said earlier. Very, you know, certain groups of

people, which I'm sure we'll get into,

are very good at some things, but not so good at depicting reality. So similar to your show,

I'm trying to get to the bottom of things. I think the avenue that I've chosen has been effective so far, asking this question,

what is money and all of the twist and turns and the rabbit holder that takes you?

So where I thought we could start today is with this concept that you've worked on a lot and popularized in the Bitcoin community,

which is gauge theory.

And I'm still, you know, I mentioned to you offline.

I've read the chapter.

This is in the book called The Physics of Wall Street, Chapter 8 that you recommended.

It discusses gauge theory.

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