007. Brandon Quittem - Bitcoin: Our Most Important Tool

The Dumbest Guy in the Room

Recorded 6/9/21

Bitcoin price at the time ~$36,500

Brandon Quittem is a writer, amateur mycologist, and the king of analogies. We cover a crazy range of subjects on the show spanning from mycology to Bitcoin’s energy consumption, to the fourth turning hypothesis, and absolutely everything in between!

Where to find Brandon:

@bquittem (https://twitter.com/Bquittem)

https://www.brandonquittem.com/

Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money (https://tinyurl.com/7mey8mu8)

Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History (https://tinyurl.com/3axupd8j)

1:45 - Brandon’s background

8:20 - Mycology interest and parallels to Bitcoin

18:00 - The economy of mushrooms

24:15 - Money, language, social scalability, and the sovereign individual

34:00 - El Salvador adopts Bitcoin

38:30 - Biology, proof of work, energy FUD and why the energy consumption of Bitcoin is good

47:15 - How pioneer species transform their ecosystem

57:15 - The fourth turning hypothesis and the long-term debt cycle

1:25:30 - The great filter and how it pertains to Bitcoin

1:39:30 - Can Bitcoin help humans get to Mars?

Resources mentioned:

Bitcoin white paper (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)

Swan Bitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/e3)

Cash App (https://cash.app/app/KWJSDQR)

Strike (https://invite.strike.me/21XVVW)

Hope.com

Planting Bitcoin - Dan Held (https://tinyurl.com/3yvme37y)

Lessons from fungi on markets and economics - Toby Kiers (https://tinyurl.com/3amc44d8)

Future Fossils ep. 163 (https://tinyurl.com/yjsznv8e)

Dunbar’s Number (https://tinyurl.com/yhdpdzx4)

Social Scalability - Nick Szabo (https://tinyurl.com/5mut8upd)

The Sovereign Individual - James Davidson (https://tinyurl.com/86c4c9m2)

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin (https://tinyurl.com/aj8fvf3)

Gradually, Then Suddenly - Parker Lewis (https://tinyurl.com/mpkheny5)

How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? - Nic Carter (https://tinyurl.com/c2nck5a8)

Twitter Spaces with President Bukele (https://tinyurl.com/38hbemep)

Bitcoin mining in DRC (https://tinyurl.com/wr6bzszd)

The Fourth Turning - William Strauss (https://tinyurl.com/5fzp5s6e)

Bitcoin Astronomy - Dhruv Bansal (https://tinyurl.com/4v7zc7w)