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What Unchained Says About Science
16 episodes about science
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financia...
Key Insights on Science
Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication
- Free Will research by Sam Harris and Behave by Robert Sapolsky suggest humans may lack true Free Will due to subconscious brain processes
- Personalized medicine will enable disease prediction and treatment before symptoms appear, addressing individual brain chemistry differences
- Your nervous system chooses your partners before your mind does - chaos can feel like chemistry
- The Citrini article caused market panic that reminded Haydek of 1984 - 'just science fiction' creating Orwellian-style fear
- The Hot Hand was released March 10, 2020 — the book party was Tuesday, and 'the world shut down on Wednesday,' making for a uniquely strange launch experience.
- The 'learning budget' strategy involves dedicating 1-10% of monthly income to skill acquisition and business experiments
- Tracy Letts lived through 1976 at age 11, getting a Honda 50 dirt bike for his bicentennial birthday while his parents ran a disastrous grocery store experiment
Episodes
The Chopping Block: Is Strategy the Luna for Suits?, ETH Labs Shakeup & CME vs Perps
Why Kalshi's John Wang Says Perps Are 'the Most Pure Trading Instrument'
Why Pandl Calls Gold and Bitcoin Buys Here
Uneasy Money: Who Owns Stolen Crypto? The $71M Fight Testing DeFi Limits
Ben Fielding: Gensyn, Decentralized AI, and the Prediction Market That Settles Itself: Bits + Bips
The Chopping Block: Defi United’s “Bailout,” MegaETH’s KPI Vesting, and Prediction Market Chaos
Bits + Bips: Bitcoin's Geopolitical Upturn and the $100K Question
The Chopping Block: Who's Really Satoshi? Quantum Panic, and AI Eating Code
How Bitcoin Is Both a Risk Asset and a Hedge Against Debasement
Bits + Bips: What Iran, Oil Shocks, and No Rate Cuts Mean for Crypto
The Chopping Block: Has Crypto Lost Its Soul? Cypherpunk Nostalgia, Prediction Markets, & Permissionless Perps
Why Crypto Has a Good Long-Term Setup Right Now: Bits + Bips
Bits + Bips: What Happens to Markets Now That the U.S. Has Struck Iran?
The Chopping Block: AI's Role in Crypto, Agentic Coding, & Citrini Financial Crisis
Is Nic Carter Exaggerating Bitcoin's Quantum Risk? Yes, Says One Core Dev
Bits + Bips: Bitcoin Miners Turn to AI for a Boost as BTC Falls
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