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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.

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The sovereign is dissolving.
The flow remains.

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Xavier Faltot

Xavier Faltot est producteur multimédia, installé à Berlin. Depuis plus de vingt ans, il traverse la radio, l'image et le web avec une approche de média mutant : il a débuté aux côtés de l'artiste Shu Lea Cheang, fondé la webradio parisienne Radiomarais et animé pendant une quinzaine d'années des lieux culturels comme la Station et le Consulat, en mêlant art, technologie, cinéma et poésie. Pionnier des usages créatifs du web, il fabrique aujourd'hui avec l'intelligence artificielle des images, des voix et des instruments sur mesure, comme TEXT OPERATOR et La Carte des fuites, conçus pour écrire Maison Fluid, son traité de parentalité fluide à paraître le 25 juillet 2027. ////// Xavier Faltot is a multimedia producer based in Berlin. For more than twenty years he has moved through radio, image and the web as a media mutant: he started out alongside artist Shu Lea Cheang, founded the Parisian web radio Radiomarais and spent some fifteen years running cultural venues such as la Station and le Consulat, blending art, technology, cinema and poetry. A pioneer of creative uses of the web, he now builds images, voices and custom instruments with artificial intelligence, such as TEXT OPERATOR and La Carte des fuites, designed to write Maison Fluid, his treatise on fluid parenting, out on 25 July 2027.
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