I think that Bitcoiners, I say like they protest a little bit too much like,

oh, there's no crime using Bitcoin.

It's not even a good currency for crime.

But honestly, like if it's not a good currency for crime,

it's not actually a good currency for anything.

Because like if you can't actually use it for the transactions you don't

on anyone to know about or the transactions you don't on any third party to like

put a halt to it.

If it's not good for that, I actually don't think it's like it's good for very much.

Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

You know, when I was a college undergraduate, I was studying philosophy and I

studied specifically, I think I mentioned this in the program before,

the philosophy of math, which was a lot of like advanced deductive logic and

proof. So I remember this graduate seminar I took in advanced ductive logic,

where we worked through girls in completeness theorem, which would take a

whole podcast really to explain.

And you know, when I would be working in those areas, the reason I did it was

because I found it incredibly intellectually challenging and it felt like I

was doing something that was kind of outpast my actual cognitive abilities,

which I found both really frustrating, but oddly satisfying.

And sometimes I would achieve this level of understanding of something where

it was like a kind of mechanical and ersatz understanding such that if

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