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The "What is Money?" Show

The Number Zero and Bitcoin | Episode 4 | (WiM306)

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

🗓️ 28 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.”

Transcript

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Once you put an idea like that into the world, it's just a superior utility, really hard to disrupt or change in any unfavorable way, it's hard to put that proverbial genie back in the bottle or the toothpaste back from the tube.

0:17.2

You know, the idea is out there.

0:18.5

It's useful.

0:19.1

People adopt it on their record.

0:22.1

And so,

0:27.2

in that way, it's almost like an independent life form, right? This idea just takes on a life of its own, it becomes a thing that we all adapt to rather than having it adapt to us. And this is why

0:34.7

many Bitcorners say, you know, know bitcoin doesn't change you don't change

0:37.9

bitcoin changes you um and you can say the same thing about zero right it's like we zero hasn't

0:45.3

changed since it was introduced by brahmagupta all right it's still just this symbol for

0:50.2

nothingness and if we've not it can't do anything about it it doesn't change it's an

0:55.1

absolute that it changes everything around it changes a whole mathematical system and

1:00.0

then that has second third order consequences out into the world

1:04.0

hey everybody welcome to the What is Money Show.

1:14.8

I am thrilled to have you here joining me on my mission to help shine light on the corruption of money.

1:21.1

Now, if this is your first time listening to The What Is Money Show, I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes one through nine first, which lays a lot of the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show.

1:33.4

These first nine episodes are my series with Michael Saylor, and thousands of people have told me that this is the best podcast series they've ever heard, hands down, and that it was instrumental to their understanding

1:45.5

of money and Bitcoin. So if you're looking to start a deep dive into the nature of money,

1:51.9

I don't think there's any place better that you can start other than episode one of this show.

1:57.0

Now, a little bit about this show and how it makes money. What is Money Show is 100% sponsor-based.

2:03.5

So all of our revenues are derived from direct sponsorships.

2:06.9

And I strive to be very selective about the sponsors that I work with, specifically only

2:12.3

using sponsors that I use personally and also choosing sponsors that have values which are well aligned to the values

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