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Episode #191 – Why The Search Has To Be Expensive

Episode #191 – Why The Search Has To Be Expensive

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P versus NP is the unproven conjecture that finding solutions is genuinely harder than checking them. This episode argues the same cost asymmetry runs through every act of knowledge generation in the universe, from Einstein deriving E equals MC squared to a Bitcoin miner finding a valid nonce, and that Bitcoin is the cleanest engineered case humans have ever built.

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