Money/Intelligence/Energy/Humanity
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Proof-of-work at the human level (with Kyle Huber)
Also on YouTube.
This conversation with filmmaker Kyle Huber holds a frame up to the show's central thesis — that adoption is not a global event to wait for, but a choice being made now, one life at a time. It moves through Kenya's circular economies, a Seattle sauna full of protestors, and the ugly middle of a contested soft fork, and lands on a distinction that outlasts the news cycle: money and wholeness are orthogonal, and the real question is what you do with the alignment Bitcoin invites.
Takeaways
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Adoption is an individual choice already available — not a global switch that flips at some future moment.
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In places like Kibera, Bitcoin's value is not price appreciation but access to money without middlemen, inflation, or high fees for people living paycheck to paycheck.
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Proof of work in a life — how time and reputation are spent — matters more than proof of stake in a holding.
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Money and wholeness are orthogonal; solving money with Bitcoin still leaves the question of what to do with the freed energy.
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The activist intuition that something is deeply wrong with the system is often correct even when the diagnosis is inverted; the wedge is a level playing field, not free stuff.