Bitcoin might be less about money and more about time.

In this episode, I’m joined by Scott Dedels, Co-Founder of Block Rewards and author of The Dao of Bitcoin. Scott blends hands-on experience in Bitcoin infrastructure with a deeper exploration of how time, value, and decentralization shape the systems we live in.

We dig into how blockchain technology and Bitcoin challenge the way modern society measures and monetizes time, and what that means for the future of finance. Scott reframes debt as monetized future value and inflation as a devaluation of the past, positioning money as a temporal instrument rather than just currency.

Drawing from his own experience navigating cryptocurrency, including the Terra Luna collapse, he explains why he sees Bitcoin’s energy-based structure as fundamentally different from other digital assets.

If you’re interested in decentralization, financial sovereignty, and the bigger ideas behind Bitcoin, this conversation goes well beyond market headlines.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[06:46] Pizzagate, YouTube censorship, and the moment Scott stopped trusting what he was shown

[11:57] Clock time, accelerationism, and how Bitcoin enables cathedral thinking again

[24:13] Governments as self-serving organisms, and the anomalies in recorded history that don't add up

[36:47] From Saturn to the moon landing: the full story of how time, history, and technology have been altered

[57:13] Satanic imagery in mainstream media, the theological framework for who holds the keys, and the devil's limited playbook

[01:02:25] The Bible as an edited document, the omitted books, and the free will vs. predestination tension

[01:11:28] The brain's tape delay, block universe theory, and the idea that consciousness might be God

[01:34:16] AI compressing time infinitely, and Bitcoin's low time preference as the only real cognitive anchor

[01:36:16] Scott's daily practice: no TV, physical books only, and retraining a dopamine-fried brain

Resources:

The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders | Book

The Dao of Bitcoin by Scott Dedels | Book or Audiobook

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