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The Path to Bitcoin

The Path to Bitcoin

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Episodes

191

Latest episode

May 2026

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Bitcoin Podcast

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May 21, 202630 min

Episode #193 – The Locus of Intelligence

<p>The intelligent party in a conversation with a frontier model is not the model. Both the people building these systems and the people warning against them assume otherwise, and that shared assumption is the same error the nineteenth century made about gold once the telegraph arrived: mistaking the part of the work a new technology does for the whole of it. Intelligence turns out to be a property of a loop rather than of a system, and the loop only produces knowledge when something inside it pays the constraint.</p>

May 15, 202634 min

Episode #192 – The Universe Demands Horns

<p>A persistent knowledge structure can only take one shape. Information is physical, verification is asymmetric, and those two facts force a Gabriel&#039;s horn topology on anything that wants to keep growing. The interesting move is to run the same test against artificial intelligence, since most of what the frontier labs are shipping is shaped like a cylinder dressed as a horn.</p>

May 11, 202640 min

Episode #191 – Why The Search Has To Be Expensive

<p>P versus NP is the unproven conjecture that finding solutions is genuinely harder than checking them. This episode argues the same cost asymmetry runs through every act of knowledge generation in the universe, from Einstein deriving E equals MC squared to a Bitcoin miner finding a valid nonce, and that Bitcoin is the cleanest engineered case humans have ever built.</p>

May 8, 202650 min

Episode #190 – Time

<p>Somewhere in the world a person has either lost their private keys or has chosen to take them to the grave, and a fixed quantity of Bitcoin will never move again. The surface answer is that the holder gave up purchasing power. This episode argues that what they actually gave up, in a strict physical sense, was time, and that the *chronometric identity* developed across the last several episodes lets us say that without metaphor.</p>

April 23, 202640 min

Episode #189 &#8211; Gabriel&#8217;s Horn: The Shape of Everything

In 1641, Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, rotated the curve y = 1/x around the horizontal axis and obtained a shape whose interior volume converges to π while its surface area diverges to infinity. Mathematicians of the day called the result an abomination. This episode argues that *Gab

April 22, 202631 min

Episode #188 – The Exhaust Principle

<p>In 1973, Jacob Bekenstein showed that a black hole’s entropy is proportional to its surface area. The result has been treated as a paradox for fifty years. This episode proposes the resolution: a black hole has the most entropy because it is the biggest engine physics permits, and the second law is the receipt for every act of building since Genesis.</p>

April 20, 202641 min

Episode #187 &#8211; The Shannon Trap

In 1948 Claude Shannon formalised information theory by excluding meaning from the math, a move that was correct for his engineering problem and costly once the field adopted his measure as the definition of information itself. This episode walks through the inversion and the proposed repair: K = Ic².

March 23, 202644 min

Episode #186 – The Anti-Demon

Bitcoin as Anti-Demon: proof of work pays thermodynamic cost upfront, produces durable knowledge, and inverts Maxwell’s century-old paradox. K=IC² explained.

February 26, 202635 min

Episode #185 &#8211; ABS Ratings = Milkshake NGU

Episode #185 | Published February 26, 2026 A lender took a pool of bitcoin-collateralized loans, packaged the pool into an asset-backed security, sold roughly $188 million of bonds, and cleared investment-grade treatment on senior notes. That is not just a headline event. It is a structural transition where Bitcoin collateral gets translated into bond language: […]

February 19, 2026

Episode #184 &#8211; On the Same Page

Two independent research teams arrive at the same conclusion: Bitcoin blocks are quantized time. How K=IC2 reframes the bitcoin thesis through the physics of information, constraint quality, and the Cf/Cp ratio.

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