# 06: Why Bitcoin Is The Only System That Can't Be Corrupted By Power | Tomer Strolight

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Published: 2026-05-26T07:00:00+00:00
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Can Bitcoin really protect humans from corruption? Nobody tells you that the worst sentiment in Bitcoin's history arrived right alongside the best fundamentals on paper. Governments buying, institutions stacking, every business able to accept it, and yet the mood feels like a funeral. Tomer Strolight has a theory about why, and it starts with what new buyers were never taught. Most systems of law punish you after you break the rules. Bitcoin won't let you break them in the first place. That single distinction reshapes everything, from how we think about governance to why politicians accumulate wealth that their salaries can't explain. Tomer spent a decade as a convinced atheist building a career in corporate boardrooms. Then depression, psychedelics, and a deep study of Bitcoin's design pulled him somewhere he never expected to go. The guy who once dismissed faith ended up being baptized in the Atlantic Ocean at a Bitcoin conference. This conversation covers civilizational decay, the aligned incentives that make Bitcoin ungovernable, why democracy might be the god that failed, and what happens when a philosopher stops fighting the idea that the universe has a creator. You’ll Learn: [00:00] Introduction [01:56] What Bitcoin cycles, the Ethereum hard fork, and Satoshi's sacrifice all have in common [13:27] Why Bitcoin's incentives make cheating the system impossible [17:05] Free will vs. predestination: why God had no choice but to give us one [21:32] Why a Holocaust-era family and the 2008 bailouts destroyed his faith in Western institutions [34:51] The case that democracy was always going to fail, and what Bitcoin does about it [58:22] Bitcoin as civilization's foundation: the system where breaking the rules is impossible [01:07:38] Why unchecked government power has a…

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