An Early Skeptic's Telling Of "Why be skeptical?" (Feat. David Gerard) - Episode 67
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by notorious cryptocurrency critic David Gerard to talk about how he ended up in cryptocurrency, why he has stuck around, and whether or not he thinks there are redeemable features of the industry.
Read more: cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/...
Other episodes mentioned in this episode:
Episode 1 - Tether: A Stable Discussion • Tether: A Stable Discu...
Episode 61 - Trying to Think Like the SEC (Feat. John Reed Stark) • Trying to Think Like t...
Episode 38 - The World is a Ponzi Scheme, You Just Live in It • The World is a Ponzi S...
Episode 21 - Bitcoin • Bitcoin (Audio Only) -...
Episode 32 - Tracking Tether and Working on Ethereum Layer 2 (with Daniel Goldman) • Tracking Tether and Wo...
Episode 57 - Ukraine and Russia and What it Means for Cryptocurrency • Ukraine and Russia and...
Episode 45 - Bitcoin’s Black Swans (Featuring Doomberg) • Bitcoin's Black Swans ...
Episode 63 - We Need to Talk about El Salvador (Feat. Mario Gómez and Oscar Salguero) • We Need to Talk About ...
Episode 7 - QuadrigaCX: the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that just won’t die • QuadrigaCX the Canadi...
Episode 66 - The Career Criminal Conspiracies of Cas Piancey • The Career Criminal Co...
Find David:
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot...
Libra Shrugged: www.amazon.com/dp/B08M8DGKY4/...
David's Blog: davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/
David's Patreon: / overview
Other places to find Crypto Critics' Corner
Website: cryptocriticscorner.com/
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Discord: / discord
Timestamps:
00:00 Introducing David Gerard
1:40 When David discovered cryptocurrency
6:20 What keeps you around
13:55 How has the space changed
14:50 Libra/Diem/ZuckBucks and Regulation
20:00 Winners and losers
22:00 How have you not been driven mad?
24:00 Will Bitcoin fail?
28:50 Do cryptocurrency enthusiasts believe what they say
36:30 Ponzi schemes
This video was produced and edited by Asher Hirsch.
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I've known of David Gerard since 2015 or so, and he was way ahead of the curve on what was wrong with cryptocurrency. I was aware he was writing the book, but I had no opinion on cryptocurrency at the time. Clearly he was on the right track. I'm glad his book has been well-received.
One of your best episodes. Hearing David speak is always enlightening. He makes it really easy to understand how stupid all of this is.
33:00 "they perceive that governance should be done through cryptocurrency". This is such a prominent idea in the space and I fucking hate it. Democracy means every person gets one vote. In crypto, you can chose between proof-of-stake - voting power based on how much money you own - and proof-of-work - voting power based on paying the most money for mining equipment. Both are just plutocratic systems that we as a society should reject forcefully and decisively. This is fine in private companies, but not on a societal level.
Every democratically elected government should defend itself against these attempts to steal its power.
Wow I'm surprised you guys don't have more views. I've really been enjoying this podcast and the conversations.
This video should have a million views.....
I appreciated the mention to the amazing prof. Stolfi! That guy is a treasure
This is dope i didn’t know you guys were on youtube
refreshing perspective for the crypto space. hopefully a heinous bear market will see a return to the fundamentals of the movement
Just bought all the books mentioned while listening. Add it to the pile
Me too❤❤❤
I love this guy lol
19:40 "It can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong..." 🤣🤣🤣💀
Loved this one!
Thank you!
This guy is hilarius
Totally love your podcast and I've watched a lot of them. Is there any way for you to bring Bennett's volume up? Every time I watch you two I do a little dance between making Bennett audible without Cas burying me :). The content is well worth it, but it seems to be a common issue with the show for me.
For the TH-cam algorithm.
Couldn't have said it better in terms of ultra bitcoiners and crypto libertarians they don't understand freedom other than freedom of my money
Is it really that hard to differentiate between cryptocurrency and the people who use it to scam people. Maddox used dollars. It's good to be skeptical but please be fair.
Are you guys high? Probably think the internet is a fad too.
Is it possible for Cas to go back to hiding his face again?
Anarcho-Capitalism is an oxymoron, Anarchism, is democracy without elected representatives, which is only possible by removing all hierarchic systems of control e.g. Money Tokens.
A resource based Anarchist society is one where the limit on what can be achieved is only the amount of total resources (materials+energy) available, to the society.
The goal of such a system, is equal division of "product" based on need, not ability to contribute, indeed in such a system "A Robot took my Job" is a boon, because your needs are still met.
Ultimate goal of the system, is core needs met by automation, freeing people to choose if, and how to contribute more to the resource pool. Anarchism is the exact opposite of capitalism.
This doesn't show that anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron. Anarcho-capitalists would obviously deny that money's existence guarantees a hierarchic system of control, so your argument is question-begging. There are a lot of devastating criticisms of anarcho-capitalism, but these require substantive argument, not an attempt at an a priori gotcha argument.