The Bitcoin Brain with Tomer Strolight - WBD430

Location: Remote
Date: Sunday 28th November
Project: tomerstrolight.medium.com
Role: Writer


The modern capitalist system is based on centralised and
hierarchical structures of control. Bitcoin is a divergent
innovation, structured to be decentralised. Progress is made
through consensus, which forgoes the need to know or trust any of
the parties involved.


This can be an anathema to some people who are introduced to
Bitcoin. They can not conceptualise how such a system can
operate. This is partly because there has not been a great
history of decentralised governance systems in modern
societies. 


Part of the issue may also be how people conceptualise Bitcoin.
Trying to frame it around man-made systems may be a fool's
errand.


Is it better to compare it to less understood yet ubiquitous
biological systems, specifically the human brain?


In this interview, I talk to Bitcoin writer Tomer Strolight. We
discuss how Bitcoin is analogous to the human brain, the
organisation of decentralised systems, and the emergent nature of
consciousness.