We hear a lot about the technical side of Bitcoin, and while that is always fascinating, there are philosophical aspects to it that are intriguing. Chris Ellis of Feathercoin asked me to join him in a discussion about peace, philosophy, and how Bitcoin relates to these topics. We covered a lot of ground in this talk with everything from peace to police brutality and even some panarchism thrown in there. Due to the controls on Hangouts on Air, only my screen was selected for viewing, so Tom of Mad Bitcoins! and The Bitcoin Group generously made an audio version so you don’t have to watch me taking water breaks as Chris talks.
You can listen to the whole talk here: https://soundcloud.com/madbitcoins1/wcn-024-peace-and-bitcoin-with
***Update: Chris added some annotations and re-did the video. Check it out:
Here’s the Norman Rockwell painting we discussed:
Norman Rockwell’s Freedom from Fear
Here are more links relevant to our conversation that Chris sent me:
The book Chris quotes from is Temporal Idealism by Bill Blattner.
The Bhagavad Gita was also mentioned.
Metaphysics of Peace:
http://www.som.org/NewPages/Newsite07/SOMNavigation/UPeaceCovenant.html
Essays on finding Inner Peace:
http://www.plw.org/Metaphysical_Essays/Inner_Peace/inner_peace.html
Difficult Conversations:
http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-Matters/dp/0143118447
The Harvard Negotiation Project.
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Meghan
- Poet, fire dancer, activist. Office manager at Roberts & Roberts Brokerage and a part time agorist, Meghan is committed to building bridges with a variety of activists and approaches to creating a freer world. When she’s not busy expressing her own freedom through spoken word poetry or fire dance, she educates others about the effectiveness of Agorism/usage of cryptocurrencies as a way to redistribute power back into the hands of the people.
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