Subnostr

No, I didn't thin you were dunking on it. I just see too much of that. Most of us learned about sound money in the first place from the gold bugs and--even though we've taken their principles the next logical step--I think they desesrve a little more respect (even if they don't join us). Rothberd was a goldbug, Dr, Ron Paul is still largely a gold bug--I'm not quite as willing as others to now toss them aside. We stand on their shoulders in many respects.

StackSats.IO 1y ago

No-one inherently deserves respect.

Ron Paul is too old to really grasp Bitcoin. Rothbard probably would have been the same.

That doesn’t diminish their accomplishments; neither would have OPPOSED Bitcoin in the way Schiff has.

That’s the difference.

Ron Paul isn’t a goldbug because he’s anti-Bitcoin - gold is the soundest money he understands. A 90-something year old bloke cannot be expected to think about the next 50 years and extrapolate the technology frontier forwards.

Bitcoin precedes Rothbard. He theorised a fixed supply money would be ideal but he never lived to see it. He probably wouldn’t have been an early adopter but he would have at least got what’s going on were he here to see it.

Today’s Goldbugs have all of the info available and the best starting point of anyone as to why Bitcoin is needed. But they are LARPing. They don’t want to end Central Banks, they want them to repeg to their heavy bags.

Real sound money advocates take the nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak line and upgrade to Bitcoin knowing everything else will be outcompeted.

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