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The "What is Money?" Show

The Number Zero and Bitcoin | Episode 3 | (WiM305)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Many believe that Bitcoin is “just one of thousands of cryptoassets”—this is true in the same way that the number zero is just one of an infinite series of numbers. In reality, Bitcoin is special, and so is zero: each is an invention which led to a discovery that fundamentally reshaped its overarching system—for Bitcoin, that system is money, and for zero, it is mathematics. Since money and math are mankind’s two universal languages, both Bitcoin and zero are critical constructs for civilization. In this series, we explore Breedlove’s written work: “The Number Zero and Bitcoin.”

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institutions that have firmly entrenched themselves and become the dominant mode of being in the world.

0:10.1

And you can't typically do anything about that.

0:14.7

It's really hard to knock down one of these megalithic institutions.

0:19.4

The only thing that seems to do it really well is an

0:23.8

unstoppable idea. Like an idea that is just, it has to be an idea. So it's bulletproof, right? It permeates

0:31.7

people's minds. It wins hearts and minds by serving individual interest, just like Zero served the individual

0:40.0

interest of the merchant and Bitcoin serves the individual interest of the entrepreneur

0:43.8

in terms of preserving purchasing power across time.

0:49.4

And that seems to be the only viable way that history shows us that otherwise immovable institutions can be brought down is with this unstoppable idea.

1:01.2

So we don't see it often, but man, when it happens, the world changes a lot.

1:18.6

Yeah. A lot. Hey everybody. Welcome to the What is Money Show. I am thrilled to have you here joining me on my mission to help shine light on the

1:23.6

corruption of money.

1:24.6

Now, if this is your first time listening to The What Is Money Show,

1:28.1

I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes one through nine first, which lays a lot of

1:34.5

the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show. These first nine episodes

1:38.5

are my series with Michael Saylor, and thousands of people have told me that this is the best

1:43.7

podcast series they've ever heard,

1:46.4

hands down, and that it was instrumental to their understanding of money and Bitcoin. So if you're

1:52.2

looking to start a deep dive into the nature of money, I don't think there's any place better

1:58.1

that you can start other than episode one of this show. Now, a little bit about this show and how it makes money.

2:03.6

What Does Money Show is 100% sponsor based.

2:06.6

So all of our revenues are derived from direct sponsorships.

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