In crypto, Twitter, what happens is once you exceed the dumbbar number, especially if you exceed it by orders of magnitude, then everybody wants you to conform to their norms as they see them.

You can't please everybody, but you can annoy everybody at scale.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Let's Talk Bitcoin. I'm Dr. Stephanie Murphy. I'm one of the hosts of the show.

Today, joining me, Jonathan Mohan.

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And of course, Andrea Santonopoulos.

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Adam is sick, so I'm filling in for him today. And I'm going to be leading our discussion for this episode, which is episode number 428.

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So today we're going to be continuing our discussion about decentralization from a philosophical

perspective, bringing up historical as well as modern examples. Now last time we were talking about

pre-technology examples of decentralization, for example, in the governance of different

tribal societies, and how easy or how difficult they were to conquer

and maybe how easy they became to conquer when a decentralized organization was made more centralized

through the use of gifts and bribes. Today, we're going to be applying those ideas and concepts

to our modern world. Last time on the show, we were talking about the example of the Spanish conquistadors

who were going into Central and South America and they were conquering various tribes.

And we talked about the difference between what happened when they encountered the Aztecs

and the Incans, who were quite centralized in their

form of society and how it was organized, and the Apaches, who were actually quite decentralized.

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