So I get an email about every other day from:

"A huge innovator and pioneer in Crypto! Bob McSmartGuy has been in crypto for years, and has received accolades and raised millions in capital from super important names like Ycombinator, Defi dick buddies, and Rao Paul Ventures! His breakthrough in advanced super smart contracts and artifical decentralized intelligence neural networkologies had made him one of the most respected CEOs in all of crypto. We recently added WBTC support to our innovative system that gets risk free yield from sustainable trade networks. He is truly bringing financial empowerment to the world and expanding the world of Bitcoin and Defi. Would you be interested in setting up an interview in the coming weeks? We know your audience would love it!.

Sincerely, Jacob"

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And I always wonder if I'm the only one who actually gives a serious response to them. And I always talk directly to "Jacob" not who or what he is representing.

I bring it up just because this is one I sent this morning:

>> "Unfortunately, you have the wrong show here. I advise people away from crypto and think there is no long term future in it. It is built on a very fundamental misunderstanding of the major economic principles that make money (and base communication protocols) aggressively consolidate toward one over long time spans.

Defi and “crypto” broadly have no future with separate blockchains and floating, illiquid tokens. Doesn’t matter how much cool stuff they build. It’s like building a platform where you have to speak Elvish, a new made up language, just to use it. Someone will build it with English and the one that requires people to speak Elvish will die, no matter how cool it’s features seem initially.

My focus is on Bitcoin, economics, internet history, cypherpunk philosophy, and the revolutionary breakthrough of POW as a consensus mechanism. What you describe *sounds* like it’s related, but it’s actually antithetical to the content of my show, rather than complimentary.

However when he realizes that everything not being built on Bitcoin is destined for the internet graveyard, and he shifts back to Bitcoin only, I’ll be happy to entertain a conversation at that time. If he makes it that long at least. He will inevitably either leave the industry, or shift back to Bitcoin.

No hate, just the simple truth. That's my 2 sats at least.

Thank you for your interest, genuinely, but I suggest you not invest your own time and energy too heavily into “crypto.” Compare the long term chart against Bitcoin and there is exactly zero ambiguity as to its future. I’ve been explaining it for 7 years, and I’ve yet to be wrong in that trajectory or on how to protect yourself in this industry through 2 major cycles. I have plenty of episodes covering why in much greater detail if you are ever interested in listening 😄

Good luck!

- Guy Swann"

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I've done this for some time off and on. I often wonder if I've ever made someone who just does emails for some crypto company to leave or become Bitcoin only 🤣