BITCOIN IS HUMAN NATURE w/ Jesse Myers
By Danny Knowles
Aired May 2, 2025 · 1h 17m · Last boosted May 4, 2025
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Jesse Myers is the author of the Once in a Species newsletter. In this episode, we discuss why humanity’s obsession with scarce assets may be hardwired into our DNA and how this evolutionary trait could explain Bitcoin’s inevitable rise. We also get into how early humans monetised scarcity, why Homo sapiens may have outcompeted Neanderthals through money-based cooperation, and how Dunbar’s number and inter-tribal trade shaped civilisation. Finally, we explore why Bitcoin represents the culmination of a 140,000-year human search for perfect scarcity — and why Jesse believes we are in the early innings...
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This was a really great episode. A lot of interesting ideas connecting human evolution, neuroscience, and economics.
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You cooked. Like Satoshi. Good ideas are rarely your own, they are the combination of all the amazing stuff you learned.
