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Back to Search![Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740732/c1a-9mg94-04r1dg6ptjk-fseytt.jpg)
Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand]
"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that i hear once in a while: "Why do you use the word 'selfishness' to denote virtuous qualiti…
2 years, 11 months ago
![Read_723 - Alchemy - Everything Divided By 21 Million [Knut Svanholm]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740733/c1a-9mg94-mq8r0nzjcm6j-3sikxs.jpg)
Read_723 - Alchemy - Everything Divided By 21 Million [Knut Svanholm]
"Central Banking is successful alchemy in this sense. The money- issuing institutions of the world have found a way to create new money with no cost.…
2 years, 11 months ago
![Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740734/c1a-9mg94-o87n4gvphjp7-y4hm70.jpg)
Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi]
"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation, dissemination, an…
2 years, 11 months ago
![Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740735/c1a-9mg94-924v5d62hmx9-l1rida.jpg)
Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden]
"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already used your “carbon credits” for the month? …
2 years, 11 months ago
Basics_06 - The Lightning Network
The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions, and the…
2 years, 11 months ago
![Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740737/c1a-9mg94-2ogqdz6pudn4-vsgqed.jpg)
Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]
"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the past. T…
2 years, 11 months ago
![Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740738/c1a-9mg94-33zvk86ofpvo-y3fe4e.jpg)
Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]
"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the tops of beer barrels. You’d be surprised how much f…
2 years, 11 months ago
Read_718 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_}
"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstandin…
2 years, 11 months ago
![Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740740/c1a-9mg94-7nqv476gb30k-wldpj5.jpg)
Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]
"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Ba…
2 years, 11 months ago
Guy's Take #65 - Banks, Digital Money, and a Cat
Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes resi…
3 years ago