The Breakdown of Trust with Balaji Srinivasan & Glenn Greenwald

[@brandonderrick006]

Balaji “Bitcoin 101” video is by far the best introduction. Changed my life.

[@fahdhussein6760]

Wow. Bringing these two together is quite something. These are two threads of thought that NEED to meet

[@xqt39a]

Being able to define an Internet truth about data has implications beyond imagination. We know it is possible because it has been done for bitcoin.

[@phazzzed350]

Great show Peter. Always good to hear Balaji and Glenn talk. Thank you for letting the guests grow the conversation organically.

[@Spurs420]

How did y'all keep it to 90 minutes with such talkers! Amazing - glad to see Glenn and Balaji talking bitcoin together

[@jed2049]

Balaji is a ROCK STAR. Can't wait for round 2 !!

[@LioBilly]

“It’s all a facade, it’s a Potemkin Village. The entire US government is a Potemkin Village”. SPOT ON!

[@brandonderrick006]

Disagree, I think some lower level players aren’t “actors” but unfortunately they don’t really matter.

[@TallDrinkForAMan]

You never fail us, Peter! Keep up the solid work!

[@brandonderrick006]

Balaji speaks in epiphanies. One of the most impressive thinkers I’ve heard.

[@christinewillis7545]

Thanks Peter. Glenn and Balaji and you are three that I trust. Integrity, freedom of thought, moral compass are sadly lacking in the current environment. You help me by clarifying what we are all up against. Corruption in every form.

[@tcpwiz1]

Galaxy brains deep dive down the rabbit hole. Fantastic! Easily in your top 5 shows Peter. Well Done!!! There is so much friction and so many obstacles in Western leadership that it cannot sustain the incentive of Bitcoin. Government response is what I worry about. They can't stop it, but they can cause harm.

[@resonancebreath]

balaji is great. i feel like he never learns anything new from talking to people, he just shares his wisdom.

[@dfaz917]

True. He has the most novel ideas of anyone in my information diet by far. Incredible

[@stevex3229]

Glen is legend, I've been following his work since his time with Snowden. Great show, we need more of these conversations!

[@deenzmartin6695]

glenn and balaji are two of the most interesting and important thinkers of our time. they seem to be immune to mainstream stupidity/dogma.

[@franklinrodriguez1802]

Nice to see gleen Greenwald on the podcast! Getting journalist that aren't sellouts to come and learn about/discuss bitcoin is such a big deal. I can say that I actually didn't get involved with bitcoin at first because of the what gleen said in the beginning, which is the libertarian politics. Getting people to see that bitcoin is not necessarily not tied to that politics and is a tool to free people from the current problems of the legacy system is so important!

[@AndreAnyone]

First ! Balaji is an awesome guest ! love the show

[@3vwhat3r]

Fantastic to see the double gee on WBD. Legend.

[@lonelysamoans]

It was an amazing conversation. I can't wait for part two!

[@terrarium_minded]

The way Balaji completely repeats himself a minute later (26:30 then 27:30)... Hilarious, but also reveals something interesting about such an encyclopedic mind. Long term memory

[@timkinney8719]

Yeah what's up with that? He's doing, like, second take or something... it's a little eery.

[@asdfqwerty3551]

lol I literally thought I misclicked and accidently skipped backwards.

[@oldraver9644]

Excellent discourse. Looking forward to Part II

[@des7638]

Incredible conversation and guests. Thanks for not interrupting, mr Host

[@Rawdiswar]

I first came across Balaji on the Tim Ferriss podcast and it was very enlightening. Good to stretch the mind.

[@adamandeve3592]

Super episode Peter, makes my Top 3! Really looking forward to the second part! Cheers!

[@timmccarthyjr3680]

Always great to hear from Glenn.

[@kurtjensen5798]

FFS love these guys so much. What an insane colab, and am so happy we are getting a follow up..😃

[@johnbrooks7658]

Great episode, thank you for bringing these two together Peter!

[@jamesdunham1072]

Thank you Peter, I love the level of sophistication and intelligence here... Leaving others in the dust. WBD has become my "go to" podcast...

[@solvability2782]

how amazing was this? Like, content where I am learning truth from super smart people. And a podcast host who lets his guests flow with it. Love it.

[@regularjoe8925]

Loved this interview. Can’t wait for part 2.

[@nareshnarayan4882]

Fantastic episode, thought provoking. Thank you

[@stevelim5274]

Peter ur content is just getting better and better. Awesome man !

[@jmack3019]

Wow great stuff Peter. Glenn is a media OG!

[@the27thMONKEY]

Fascinating discussion as usual. I look forward to part 2.

[@scott96999]

This was absolutely great.

[@andrewk2321]

Excellent discourse. Glenn and Balaji are titans

[@slamslidestyle]

holy shit man you continue to have some of the most fascinating conversations around web 3.

[@richbirecki]

What a fantastic discussion. Kudos to the moderator

[@shake6321]

So proud and happy for you. you took a passion and worked on it. congrats on the success.

[@brianhellemn1]

Finally a real episode….

[@raymondgill9796]

Really looking forward to part two. Not enough thought goes into how a transition might function if Bitcoin becomes mainstream and the possible fallout from a fiat meltdown. Has anyone looked at this from the parallels in the Classical world, particularly the reforms of Solon in Athens and Diocletian in the late Roman empire ?

[@thor800]

Good Christ Balaji doesn't waste any time getting deep

[@samandrastek]

Best part of the interview: Peter suggesting to do a part 2 interview

[@Recoveryplus]

Great show 👍

[@terrarium_minded]

Oh hell no, this show is going to be a baller

[@iaintoft7003]

Great show, great guests, I think it would have benefited from let Glen speak more.

[@robertmueller3032]

Can’t wait for part 2

[@viralvideoguy1988]

anyone know where I can find a techbro hoodie like Balaji Srinivasan?

[@flowbrandz316]

What they mean by "our democracy" is "our hegemony".

[@jesse7900]

Great discussion

[@miabarry]

Wow. Amazing podcast.

[@smann11b]

We need that part with Glenn and Balajis!!!

[@steveknight9187]

Brilliant

[@juansgalt]

Great conversation man. Fence sitting politics FTW.

[@jackgill2391]

Wow…. That was amazing

[@nocollarcrypto8851]

A historic first 💪

[@deenzmartin6695]

how is not knowing the identities of entities that hold large amounts of bitcoin any different from not knowing the identities of people who are holders of large amounts of cash (i.e. physical currency) assuming the cash is not stored in a bank?

[@matthewnepa]

Good show!

[@kadeemk4679]

Damn this was good

[@samandrastek]

1:04:00 Glenn on concerns that as Bitcoin moves closer to becoming a threat to the prevailing order, it will elicit a response from that order-the constituents of that order can also buy Bitcoin and have a much greater capacity to do so than most. Bitcoin has a life raft for everyone on the sinking ship, even the rats.

[@buffalo241]

Good stuff!!!!!!!!

[@Ironrodpower]

REally good

[@complexphenom402]

Balaji is cool and I respect his work & pov, but Peter could have done a much better job of moderating this entire conversation. I honestly wanted to hear more from Glenn and more about Bitcoin. Instead, we get Balaji composing his next essay live with a hostage audience. Again, I love Balaji, Pete, & Glenn. Just wish this could have been more of a conversation between you three and not the Balaji Ted talk I just saw.

[@Adityasomani555]

Great ❤

[@mikerollin4073]

Great stuff

[@1ntrcnnctr608]

timing is everything

[@GreenBoiler]

51:29 Balaji's rip on energy use 🔥🔥🔥. Balaji is back on my [low] positive side.

[@deenzmartin6695]

nobody cares what you think about him.

[@samandrastek]

33:00 Add to the list of dichotomies: Austrian economics vs Keynesian (maybe Mises vs Malthus)

[@sluggo3slug]

Very good this time

[@emiliobarbieri2166]

Balaji is such a pot of knowledge man, what a guy

[@cj_clippy]

Heavyweights in their fields!

[@electricswine1]

WBD is on🔥🔥🔥. Keep it going, only way to roast marshmallows.

[@jelio123456]

Hi Glenn!

[@srinivasbandari4217]

Trusted News nice

[@andrew69novak]

The cantillon effect of the current system guarantees inequality. Bitcoin overcomes this and is the only hope to move towards equality at all.

[@sparkle2575]

Where is the part 2?

[@cl1mbat1ze]

Pleasure hurry to make a second part! 😩

[@cl1mbat1ze]

I’m fiendin’!

[@cj_clippy]

Loved this one!

[@JohnDobbertin]

Oh shit. YES

[@jubbafrubby4561]

can bitcoin be made quantum resistant?

[@Santos_12]

Crypto is the future

[@jubbafrubby4561]

@@Santos_12 what sort of answer is that?

[@nichole2757]

The response to concentration of wealth in a small holder class in bitcoin was missing the simple explanation that the handful of largest wallet addresses are actually exchanges and publicly traded trusts, so they’re single addresses representing millions of people

[@franklinrodriguez1802]

Yeah that is true and I would say that if you think about people that have 50k or more btc rn, if bitcoin does go to 100 trillion market cap, will be ridiculously rich. Children born 75 years from now won't get the benefit of being born when btc was cheap hence we could see a recreation of a similar inequal system we see today.

[@mujtabashanan3548]

Bitcoin was trading for less than a penny in the free market, anyone could bought any amount of it, there wasn't any pre-mine and the release was public from the start, any anyone could mine it on there computer until recently. Concentration of wealth, comes naturally with any early investors or venture capital in in the stock market, it is not something exclusive for bitcoin. Those early investors risked their capital in something new that may fail or get banned and were ridiculed for years over it, they deserve to benefit form success of their investment.

[@Adityasomani555]

When 2nd part?

[@EdgarPerez-tb5le]

Yo! Where's part 2?

[@sympatheticjoy4840]

Chamath has more Bitcoin than Satoshi?

[@doubleslit3389]

More of this

[@jayd6813]

20 years ago, the president of China had 11 members of its cabinet - 10 were engineers and 1 was a lawyer. How many engineers and people that really know how to think are in Washington? - none.

[@fffddd2950]

Some good points, but very muddled and prone to spurious connections between dots.

[@sympatheticjoy4840]

smart

[@wesleywhitley8105]

I would rather over correct to anarchy than over correct to dictatorship

[@ukkiwii7131]

Balajis intro is literally Chainlink

[@n1mbusmusic606]

MORE

[@n1mbusmusic606]

balaji knockout!

[@1ntrcnnctr608]

44:15 😆

[@paulkieffer1189]

Hey Peter learn balaji’s name

[@PeeedaPan]

Bitcoin is the solution for world peace

[@sympatheticjoy4840]

BTC is the solution to terraforming Mars. It's also what's for dinner.

[@stevenfitzgerald6477]

I was under the impression anarchy meant no government. But he's using anarchy as if it means chaos. What are the typical definitions that people are using today? If anarchy means no government then those public/government areas that he talks about being dangerous would be privately owned and privately secured creating more stability not chaos like he describes. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

[@kevinjackson4933]

The modern left does not see decentralization as empowering because their ideology innately depends on authoritarianism. Decentralization undermines their whole program. Also, most of their underlying motives are not about actually helping people, but instead fueling their collective addiction to moral superiority and moral panic. So when Glenn says he wants the left to understand that Bitcoin can help their cause, in my opinion he is being naive or willfully ignorant about their motives. I think their motives are immoral in the first place, which is precisely _why_ their tactics are the way they are. Actions speak louder than words. Leftists could become moral people, but it would take inherent changes in their moral foundation, not just a shift in tactics.

[@sting0072007]

Omg

[@nickmatthewsmusicstudio]

Not sure I would say that Joe Rogan needs Spotify. kinda seems like Spotify needs him...

[@arthurking6549]

Web 3 = decentralized .. Yeah nah

[@OwenGarcia]

Jeff Bezos with hair

[@sympatheticjoy4840]

Can the guy deleting all criticism see the muted posts?

[@sympatheticjoy4840]

huh?

[@sympatheticjoy4840]

wh?