Erik Cason: Truth Not Authority Creates Legitimacy

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05/08/21 • 66 min

Erik Cason is a crypto-anarchist, makarismos, & iconoclast thinker writing about the social ramifications of bitcoin & the Director of Client Services at Unchained Capital.

We discuss:

The place of law in society

Who gets to create the exception

How Bitcoin creates a new social contract

The perpetual & exceptional state of emergency since WW2

Bitcoin as the base layer for a new kind of commonwealth

The secret nature of the war against you

Blinding the sovereign

& so much more

Erik Cason is a crypto-anarchist, makarismos, & iconoclast thinker writing about the social ramifications of bitcoin & the Director of Client Services at Unchained Capital.

We discuss:

The place of law in society

Who gets to create the exception

How Bitcoin creates a new social contract

The perpetual & exceptional state of emergency since WW2

Bitcoin as the base layer for a new kind of commonwealth

The secret nature of the war against you

Blinding the sovereign

& so much more

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