Blockchain talks with Sebastian Cochinescu (TailPath) & Vladimir Oane (Deepstash)

It's a technology that allows us to gain personal sovereignty. 

The best thing you can do for yourself is buy some crypto, but with convinction.

The value is in the journey you make to get to this decision. Find what makes bitcoin interesting to you. That will open for you the bitcoin rabbit hole.

Most of us don't care what money is: medium of exchange, store of value over space and time?

Good money is sound, recognisable, it's scarce. Why is scarcity important? How big si the problem with inflation? And at some point you realise you're not in charge of your life.

You end up with: personal sovereignty is important, so I should have the freedom to make my own decisions. So what should I do?

The freedom maximalists miss out on this important aspect of freedom: property and responsibility are part of the same equation. 

If you have freedom, you own yourself and that is the most important property: your body, your mind and you should own yourself.

You should take care of yourself and maximise your wellbeing.

Blockchain allows coordinating of human action without the use of force, which is remarkable. In history this has been done through the use of violence, rulers. 

Blockchain allows us to make thing together as a group, as a community, without being under the constant threat of violence.

Systems where you have a central authority (politicians, lawyers, accountants) can be disrupted. But that is complicated first step.

If you want a better society, it's better focus on personal growth, personal responsibility, live the best life, be a good example for your kids. 

Change your mental framework. Be your own bank and store value, thinking of your life in longer time frames.

It becomes philosophical. You have to create your own meaning of life. You have to start living now.

If you become a zen student, you have to also become a zen master, take care of your life and spread happiness.

Puts personal freedom as the ultimate ideal. We have more freedom, civil liberties, religious freedom.

We still have central authorities and this leads to monopoly on money, education and health care. They are linked.

Technology lets us do things together, without one of us being in charge. It was difficult before crypto to see how to make the transition to an autonomous, violence free model society.

Have you seen this social contract Rousseau postulated a few hundred years ago? Have you signed anything?

Constitutions are a proxy to this contract.

Most constitutions are shit, US' is better, closest to a social contract.

It cannot fix everything. We have to lose some of the religious efervescence.

It mustn't become a dogma.

Just because we have the technology, it doesn't mean we can use it for good. We have to balance the use and transparency of blockchain from a technical and philosophical point of view.