Bitcoin Was Created By a Rogue AI with Sam Balter (Weird Work Podcast)
2018-03-16
Bitcoin is one of the great mysteries of the internet age. Who exactly created it? Where is it going? How did it blow up so fast? What the fudge is a blockchain and why don’t I have one? The delightful Sam Balter (of the equally delightful podcast Weird Work) joins to talk about cryptocurrency and the possibility that the OG cryptic coin was created by - get this - a artificial intelligence. Yes, Sam thinks that a true AI lurks inside the internet like some sort of Smaug, but with bandwidth instead of gold. And that that AI has its own enigmatic reasons for creating the fake currency we all know and… know. Listen for a rundown on how cryptocurrency actually works, as well a chat about beautiful code, weird aliens, and a bunch of dorky computer programmers who run the world.
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