Why Arjun Sees a Link Between Pope Leo and Bitcoin

May 28
16 mins

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What does Pope Leo's first AI encyclical have to do with the Bitcoin white paper?

Arjun Sethi, co-CEO of Kraken, traces a philosophical thread from Augustine's City of God through Catholic social teaching's subsidiarity principle to Satoshi's monetary architecture.

Austin Campbell finds the same argument in the Federalist Papers. Ram Ahluwalia brings in Immanuel Kant and the Tower of Babel. And Chris Perkins asks the question the whole room is thinking: is the Pope into DeFi?


Hosts: 

@austincampbell, @perkinscr97, @ramahluwalia

Guest: @arjunsethi


This clip is from a longer conversation on Kraken's global strategy, tokenized equities, and the SEC's paused innovation exemption. Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/KKec65JyBjw 

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