Hilarious that Vinny’s idea is for the government to spin up a mining pool to build the bitcoin reserve considering mining pools are notoriously terrible businesses with razor-thin margins.

The path of least resistance is to print and buy bitcoin. There are a number of things that aren’t an overt speculative attack they could do before they resort to that though; bitcoin backed treasuries where the buyer participates in upside bitcoin appreciation, converting revenues from federal services into bitcoin, and a litany of straight forward low hanging fruit.

Taxing bitcoin purchases and sales is egregious theft and a state run mining pool would be poetic because it’s what you would expect from a government known to waste resources while producing sub-par services.

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The government should take proceeds from criminals, either in bitcoin when seized or converted to bitcoin, to fund the stockpile. It’ll fill up on its own that way. Any other means is a distortion.

Yeah let's give them a reason to expand the scope of what they call criminal

i think maybe U have not been involved enuf yet to prescribe in this area fren/*

lol…I suppose. There are dozens who got there before me. Many dozens. https://m.slashdot.org/story/138276

i was thinking experience with the law system here and gov. action. Not sure of your history but what U said kinda goes against the grain. Just so U know for future ref if U want. i would like to see U thrive but this space has a definite learning curve that takes time to feel out. no worries but just trying to help. all the best/* Y the link?

As if the government would be concerned about margins lol

he secretly wants a government to perform a 51% attack

Top Secretly like Jason Lowery

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Like that nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy is starting to post on Nostr more actively, the pressure from @ODELL has gotten to him

Every take from Jason regarding BTC is always an absolute shit show.

No surprise that midwit Calacanis wants to tax it.

Vinny with a bad take? Huh, whod’a thunk it.

Jason has BDS.

@ Jason and Chamath are the epitome of a fiat influencers, who only seek to prey on vulnerable plebs on their journey to seek a way out of the system.

The miners are literally pivoting to purchasing & this guy's talking about pivoting to mining; so out of touch. 🤦‍♂️

Mining may produce low margins, but the state is not looking to the the venture for profit maximization.

If the goal is to leverage it's untapped natural energy resources to a) protect the network on which it owns tokens, and b), ensure its access to block space, government should mine.

Alternatively, it could "print and buy". The problem here, as we know: the government is hurting the lower class with more and more inflation. It is harmful.

On the other hand, governments mining bitcoin would show that there's no precedent for tax collection. That's slightly better than compelling people to self-report capital gains every time they spend sats then throwing them in jail over "rounding errors." I don't have faith, though--I think governments would rug the ETFs before buying from an exchange

I think the government should solo mine instead. You never know, maybe they get lucky.

and the pro-tax chode above him. Those guys NGMI.