Another thing that pushed me to review my semi-serious Las Vegas speech was this presentation by Sergej Kotliar, where he separated (imo correctly) "Bitcoin the tool" from "Bitcoin the movement", but in a way that triggered a lot my Venn-related autism, because he ascribed to the "movement" only the subset of cultural idiosyncrasies I would ascribe to the "Austrian/Maximalism" subculture ("low time preference", "HODL", "NgU", "no shitcoins", "hyperbitcoinization fixes this", etc), and to the "tool" some memes that are imo very much part of the cypherpunk subculture ("privacy", "dissidents", "wikileaks"), itself very much part of the "movement", not of the "tool", which I think would instead include, from a pragmatic PoV, most of the gambling-related uses Sergej call "the Casino":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjEcSmZKfc
For all these reasons, I was very happy when #[6] asked me to give a more elaborate version of the speech in Riga. Unfortunately nobody recorded it, there. So, I was very happy to give it again for Strike, thanks to the ghost of a lovely Rockstar (RIP <3).
Enjoy.
(PS: I know on nost I could have just pasted all the links in a single note...I'm just used to use thread to separate points...is it annoying? Feedback appreciated.)
Better multiple smaller posts than one big one, imo.
With multiple I feel achievement after each one :)
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That was a LOT of fun last year Giacomo - thanks 🙏
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