Bitlemmas | The Book Club for the Open-Source World
Open-source built the internet. Linux, Git, Apache, PostgreSQL , the backbone of modern computing was written by communities, not corporations. But today, those same communities are slowly being captured: by corporate foundations, centralized governance, and infrastructure they no longer control.
Who's keeping it free?
Bitlemmas is a podcast dedicated to that question. Every episode, we dig into books on Bitcoin, monetary history, decentralized protocols, and open-source governance, reviewing them critically, debating their ideas, and connecting them back to the builders who need them most. No fan interviews. No hype cycles. Just serious reading, honest critique, and conversations that actually go somewhere.
We sit at a very specific crossroads:
— The old open-source ethos (maintainers, foundations, infra folks)
— Bitcoin-grade decentralization (no premine, no roadmap, no issuer, no censorship)
— Monetary literacy and protocol design
If you're a developer, maintainer, protocol designer, or open-source contributor who wants to understand how decentralized systems are governed — and how they should be — this is your show.
What we cover:
— Bitcoin and the Bitcoin ecosystem
— Monetary history and policy
— Decentralized protocol design
— Open-source governance and community infrastructure
— Participatory democracy in software communities
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