{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenbitcoin.world%2Fepisodes%2Fbrandon-quittem-bitcoin-culture-wars-an-bVqP9IYa","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Brandon Quittem: Bitcoin Culture Wars and The Bitcoin-Fungi Analogy","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/21b749e3-cf0e-4093-9658-6b2a13488a87/52866208-173d-43d5-aea0-c56477446d07/citizen-bitcoin-podcast-art-swan-2.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Brandon Quittem burst onto the bitcoin scene like a mushroom breaking through three inches of asphalt when he published the first part of his bitcoin-fungi analogy in December 2018. I love biology and nature in general, and have a particular interest in mushrooms and fungi - they are incredibly interesting lifeforms - and I enjoy foraging for morels in the springtime. So Brandon was toward the top of my list of bitcoiners to talk to when I started doing these interview episodes. In this one Brandon and I start of with some talk about this Faketoshi/Hodlonaut mess and a piece about Bitcoin culture wars that Brandon published a couple months ago. We talk about potential future culture wars around privacy and fungibility vs chain transparency for supply verification and about the declining subsidy and transition to a fee market to support network security. Then we dig into the mycelium and mushroom analogy and Brandon gives us a preview of the upcoming third and final part of the series."}