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Thomas Hobbes meets Satoshi Nakamoto hosted by Brooke Candy

The Dark Hole #03 stages a mythological clash.

On one side: Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan — the modern State born from fear, order imposed to contain human violence, power centralized to keep chaos at bay.
On the other: Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin — a peer-to-peer system with no king, no center, no permission, where trust is written in code and verified by everyone.

Hosted by Brooke Candy, this episode doesn’t explain Bitcoin — it feels it.


WHEN FEAR BUILDS STATES — AND CODE BREAKS THEM

Hobbes believed humans needed a sovereign to survive themselves. The Leviathan was not a metaphor — it was an operating system for society, built on fear, obedience and centralized authority.

“Humans are violent, stupid and horny.
So you trade your freedom for protection.”

Centuries later, Bitcoin appears not as a currency, but as a counter-myth.
No ruler. No permission. No center.

“No king. No prince. Everyone verifies.”

In The Dark Hole #03, Bitcoin is treated as what it really is:
a political architecture, not a financial product.


FROM GUTENBERG TO BITCOIN — A WAR ON MONOPOLIES

This episode draws a sharp historical line:
the printing press broke the monopoly of speech;
blockchain breaks the monopoly of trust.

“Printing was the first machine that freed truth.
Blockchain is a printing press for trust.”

Here, technology is not neutral.
It redistributes power — violently, silently, irreversibly.

Languages fracture. References collide. Philosophy becomes spoken code.


NO CENTER. NO CROWN. JUST FLOW.

The Dark Hole #03 is not a podcast.
It’s not a debate.
It’s a radio ritual for a world where the Leviathan is cracking and trust no longer comes from above.

“No crown.
Just connection.”

Broadcast as part of ZUPER WOK on Cashmere Radio Berlin, this episode belongs to the Meetings from Nowhere / The Dark Hole series — a space where impossible encounters happen to test the limits of modern power, technology and belief.

Press play.
The sovereign is dissolving.
The flow remains.

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Xavier Faltot: Media Mutant, brille par ses images expérimentales, mêlant art, technologie, cinéma et poésie. Dès ses débuts avec l’artiste Shu Lea Cheang, il sait capturer et danser avec le réel. Ses œuvres, à la fois provocantes et captivantes, reflètent une compréhension profonde de la globale culture actuelle. Samouraï virtuel multimedia et pionnier français dans l'utilisation des outils offerts par le web, il attend depuis toujours l'arrivée des intelligence artificielles. Aujourd’hui à l’aise avec les machines qui créent en vrai, il joue et fabrique des mondes animés à la carte ou des univers virtuels inconnus. ////// Xavier Faltot: Media Mutant, shines through his experimental images, mixing art, technology, cinema and poetry. From his early work with artist Shu Lea Cheang, he has captured and danced with reality. His works, both provocative and captivating, reflect a deep understanding of today's global culture. A multimedia digital samurai and French pioneer in the use of web tools, he has always awaited the arrival of artificial intelligence. Now at ease with the machines that create the real thing, he plays with and creates bespoke animated worlds or unfamiliar virtual universes.
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