- Participants debated Bitcoin’s geometric reward-halving schedule, noting it functions as a discrete marketing “event” that repeatedly triggers the just-noticeable-difference threshold for new adopters while also providing a simple, fork-resistant coin-distribution mechanism in the absence of Sybil-proof alternatives.  
- A macro-economic critique held that deflationary currencies like Bitcoin discourage any investment whose ROI is below the currency’s appreciation rate, potentially starving critical sectors and amplifying recessions—a “tragedy of the commons” framed by reference to Scott Alexander’s “Meditations on Moloch.”  
- “Republicoin,” an in-progress cryptocurrency design, was outlined: periodic proof-of-stake elections let winning coalitions temporarily redirect part of the block reward to public-goods funding, aiming to align inflation with societal benefit rather than pure miner profit.  
- Cryo-EM at 3.4 Å resolution (coronavirus spike protein example) prompted discussion on whether non-destructive whole-brain scanning is feasible; the consensus was that current WBE roadmaps still rely on destructive, slice-and-ablate methods after aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation.  
- A Georgist “average-rent” basic-income scheme was proposed: every land parcel is continuously auctioned on-chain, aggregate rent is redistributed equally to all humans, and a small fraction funds dispute-resolution/security services to enforce voluntary compliance.  
- Freedom vs. systemic-coordination arguments invoked Isaiah Berlin’s negative vs. positive liberty distinction, with critics warning that universal rent systems could gentrify individuals out of their own improvements, while supporters argued that correcting perverse incentives is necessary for real freedom.  
- An “average-rent currency” concept was explored as a way to guarantee every citizen an abstract share of Earth’s land, food, shelter, and sunlight, forcing employers to pay reasonable wages or lose workers to “staying home,” with speculation framed as either noise or liquidity provision.  
- A claimed polynomial-time RSA break was sketched using modular-ring “clockwise” square-wave patterns to reveal Euler’s totient, though the author withheld full disclosure, viewing crypto-breaking as a personal “dead-man switch.”  
- Links shared included the 1996 paper on hyper-giant fullerenes as lighter-than-air solids, NetLogo agent-based simulations, and arXiv preprints on soldier-crab logic gates and a claimed P ≠ NP proof.  
- Prion persistence in plants was highlighted via a 2015 study showing grass grown over CWD-infected deer burial sites transmitted prions to hamsters, completing an environmental contamination cycle.