My thoughts on Witless Webb's doomer porn (roughly 50% reasonable, 50% sensationalist BS):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7OavJN9u4

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Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! I think Whitney Webb's takes are immensely overrated, and feel like she's a exploiting the Bitcoin community to give herself a platform.

I'd been hesitant to think that until yesterday, but I now share that view.

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This gave me a bit to think about. Thank you.

Interested to listen to your take.

I watched a bit of her Tom Bilyeu interview where my "ick" became apparent. Tom asked her a few times "what would you do to fix it"? She never really gave an potential solutions other than "fix it".

She's extremely knowledgeable shedding some light on the corrupt shot callers. In all fairness, I think she's doing good work work, but she's only a small piece of the "fix the world" movement.

Also a side note... Given her content has become more regularly available on the big platforms, I'm suspicious that her research is (accidentally?) doing the opposite of her intentions. Either that, or whatever she is uncovering isn't effective in creating any real movement.

I mention specifically in the video that it's not a journalist's job to provide solutions.

That said I think her complaints have turned into fear porn rather than informed critiques.

Excellent. Got the vid queued for the flight 🙏

All she ever says is exactly what people want to hear. So full of shit.

I like how you wove in your take on bitcoin privacy into this. Looking forward to more videos.

Thanks. I'd been trying to make a video on that for a while and it ended up coming out here instead.

I'd venture to say that people who say that "BiTcOiN iS cApTuReD" without **ANY** mention of ordispam or the Bitmain cartel have little credibility in this space. Over here, when someone doesn't do their homework or wield their platform properly, everyone will know about it

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