Today we begin with another Palenque Norte Lecture from the 2013 Burning Man Festival. In his talk, artist Jon Isaac Mitchell presents an interesting hypotiesis that art is actually a technology. Jon is followed by Michael Goldstein who gives us a concise explanation of how bitcoin technology evolved and goes on to explain that cryptocurrency is only the tip of the bitcoin iceberg. And should you harbor fears that bitcoin is a government operation, there is this quote: “Satoshi could have been an NSA backed totalitarian, but his protocol is strictly anarchist. He could have easily been paid by the government to create it, but he created something that the government itself cannot shut down. And the protocol itself is strictly anti-government in the sense that it does not allow for government.”
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