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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?

StackSats.IO 2y ago

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.

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

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?