# The Tyranny of the Clock | Scott Dedels, The Age of Time

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Podcast: [The Bitcoin Matrix](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-matrix-2537137)
Published: 2026-07-20T00:56:16+00:00
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"Most of the money problems we talk about with Bitcoin — they're not money problems. They're time problems." Scott Dedels — founder of Block Rewards and author of The Age of Time — says the clock is a technology. It was invented about 600 years ago, and somewhere along the way we forgot it was ever invented at all. His claim: the problem of time is upstream of the problem of money. Fiat was downstream of a civilization that had already agreed to be ruled by a machine that only moves forward, in the direction of consumption. We went from asking what is time to only ever asking what time is it. We get into the Prague Orloj and the birth of mechanical time, the 1944 essay that turned time into a commodity, Saturn as civilization's invisible operating system, why we stopped building 300-year cathedrals, AI and the information hyperstream — and Bitcoin as a ten-minute heartbeat no one controls. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 🎙️ GUEST Scott Dedels — Block Rewards, Bitcoin payroll. US waitlist now open. The Age of Time (book) → theageoftime.com — autographed copies, pay in Bitcoin. Also on Amazon. Scott on X → x.com/LanternBitcoin Also author of The Dao of Bitcoin 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Downl…

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