Hard to hold two competing thoughts in your head at once?
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Biden can’t hold one thought in his head, the perfect foil to turn spacebois thesis against Bitcoin.
You didn’t really think the spook is trying to help the one thing that undermines the entire US Gov hegemony did you Gary?
If you think they needed spaceboi’s thesis to justify attacking bitcoin, you’re naive.
It might come as a surprise, but some people in military actually think they’re doing their part to advance liberty. I should know, I was one of them for a decade+.
Aside from simplistic “bitcoin is not a weapon”, any specific part of the thesis you disagree with? Or just like screaming about attacks on bitcoin?
Need? No. It’s another attack vector and one that sadly otherwise intelligent people have fallen for.
You want to talk about naive? “some people in military actually think they’re doing their part to advance liberty”
Fucking lol. Bombing brown people because they have oil and sending in US firms to rebuild isn’t “advancing liberty” Gary. That’s peak naivety, a fiction you tell yourself so you can sleep at night without having to face the true evil you were an agent of.
As to specifics. 1) it’s not a weapon. 2) this game was already played with encryption in the 90s - if you want legitimacy then 1A with code as speech is already precedent and 3) anything Bitcoin related that comes out of MIT might as well be on CIA letterhead.
You clearly have a track record of putting your faith in the wrong institutions and people. Start ACTUALLY questioning things ffs.
Again, try to hold conflicting thoughts in your head. It’s hard but you’re almost there.
I was an agent of evil. I was also idealistic and believed I was doing the right thing. Young men have always be manipulated to be pawns of war, this is not anything new. Clearly you’ve been a wise sage forever and thankfully never were duped by authority figures or false narratives so I can see why you wouldn’t understand.
So you don’t have actual insights to specifics of the thesis that you disagree with and just like to parrot high level talking points? Cool.
1. True, but doesn’t mean it has no nation-state considerations when it comes to national defense. Weapons aren’t the only way you win wars.
2. No one is contesting the crypto wars and history shows how that plays out. Sign me up for the bitcoin core t-shirt with code on it.
3. This is probably true as well since most major institutions are captured at this point. But, and here’s the two thoughts at once thing, it doesn’t mean that there’s nothing interesting or worth discussing about work coming out of MIT about bitcoin.
Lol. Sure, buddy, I’m a big ol’ institution simp but I’m not the one screaming about words being scary. If spaceboi calling bitcoin a weapon takes down the bitcoin network, then it wasn’t strong enough anyway. Bitcoin can be whatever anyone wants it to be. People want to think of it as a weapon, they will.
Cyber hornets is another common theme in bitcoin. Think hornets could be considered offensive in nature? Does that hurt your brain to consider too?
Jason’s thesis is a classic false premise trap. Bitcoin is money (SoV, MoE and UoA). Not a weapon. His conclusions and recommended actions are based on the the wrong premise and hence at best interesting, at worst an intentional attack vector.
Where does the thesis go wrong? Aside from the “bitcoin isn’t a weapon” angle. It’s an irrelevant angle to the core thesis about power projection competition.
When you start with the wrong premise you usually end up with the wrong conclusion. I’m this case big centralized government. The opposite of the ethos of bitcoin. On a tangential note, due to scarcity of bitcoin, large centralized pockets of bitcoin always dissipate to where most value is produced. Thus even if the us will own most Bitcoin initially, it’ll go to the people and places where most value is produced over time.
The premise is bitcoin is an electrical power projection mechanism that can be used for resource competition. Previous to bitcoin, most people used kinetic power projection to compete for resources.
The scale of centralization is irrelevant to the core thesis. I agree that the US govt is much too large. The best government is the smallest government. It doesn’t mean that a small won’t use bitcoin as a national defense mechanism. Do you think El Salvador is doing the right thing with volcano bonds? Have they not used bitcoin and it’s properties to protect the country from outside aggressors?
Bitcoin will not completely eliminate centralization. There’s centralization in the network itself. Humans centralize due to our nature, that nature has been abused and coupled with obfuscation and miseducation about money to create the Fed and other central banks.
I agree that sats will flow to only productive people over time. This is why we win.
Ok, so what does that really mean? “Electrical power projection mechanism that can be used for resource competition”…A lot of military words to say Store of Value and medium of exchange for property, goods (resources) and services. It’s much more simple, IMHO. Bitcoin is money. The perfect money. Let’s write a thesis for what the perfect money will do for us. A lot of Jason’s points are almost correct, except a little off…but I think the biggest mistake is not realizing the government’s Bitcoin paradox. They need to be first, or die. But being first they’ll self-destruct.