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Welcome to The Taproom, home to two distinct brews: philosophical essays exploring Bitcoin's intersection with time, value, and the human condition, plus weekly newsletters that distill the essential conversations from across the Bitcoin podcast ecosystem. Pull up a stool and choose your pour.

Bits, Blocks, and the Bending of Time

A Personal Exploration of Bitcoin's Temporal Revolution

You're stuck in rush hour, stop-and-go traffic, the digital glow of a thousand impatient screens illuminating frustrated faces. The minutes tick by with agonizing slowness, each one a tiny eternity in that purgatory of brake lights. Yet, when I look back on that hour, it seems to vanish—a blip lost in the haze of countless other commutes. This dissonance, the way our lived experience of time clashes with the supposedly objective measurement of it, has always fascinated me...

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