Exhibit 798: A display in self-contradiction

Early on, author claims that Bitcoin has failed its purposes and is therefore useless. Later he inadvertently accepts that Bitcoin serves those purposes (but that's bad somehow).

Bitcoin is bad because lost bitcoins cannot be retrieved. In the very next paragraph, Bitcoin is bad because lost bitcoins can be retrieved*.

*"figuring out the password" to retrieve Bitcoin is a hoax BTW: https://x.com/cryptohatelog/status/1639918404508299266

Source: https://x.com/i/web/status/1437733564649545740 / https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/opinion/bitcoin-el-salvador.html

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220827014831/https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/1437733564649545740 / https://web.archive.org/web/20210914092839/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/opinion/bitcoin-el-salvador.html

Tweet Reference: https://x.com/cryptohatelog/status/1802081349714543086