Resisting a Surveillance Technocracy with NVK - WBD838
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
NVK is the founder of Coinkite and a board member at OpenSats. In this interview, we discuss the threat of centralised AI, building a decentralised alternative with Bitcoin, and the power of open source in resisting a surveillance technocracy.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to move to a world where having private keys resolves most problems because the only thing AI cannot fake is computational proof of work. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello there, happy Friday, hope you're all doing well. |
| 0:15.0 | It's my last day before I head out on holiday, my annual holiday, |
| 0:19.0 | a week off with the kids in the sunshine, having a break. |
| 0:22.0 | It's been a busy, busy neither week off before the football season starts. All goes crazy and from now I'm going to be headed to Nashville for the Bitcoin conference. Cannot wait to get down there. See your crazy bit coin as |
| 0:33.0 | hang out and grab a beer talk Bitcoin talk craziness talk clown world it's gonna be an |
| 0:38.6 | incredible week I just saw that Trump's been announced as the lead speaker. |
| 0:43.0 | Insane stuff. |
| 0:44.0 | Well done you, David Bailey. |
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| 1:04.0 | I'm your host Peter McCormack. |
| 1:05.0 | Today I've got the one and only |
| 1:07.2 | MVK back on the show for the second time in a couple of months. |
| 1:11.0 | Now after the last show I recorded with |
| 1:12.6 | MVK, we were talking a little bit about his AI project and Leich-Tchat. |
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