Yeah, it's kind of scary. Also what it does to Isreali politics. Why settle with your (closely ethnically and culturally related) neighbours when your tribe is backed by 2-3 outside powers?
Yeah, I think these numbers are a bit off. But the mainstream financial press is also having this discussion. Its very hard to justify the current AML regime. It’s not just a crazy bitcoiner argument 😅
Venezuela Cracks Down on Bitcoin Mining
"We recommend that any person or company that has installed equipment uninstall it and store it to avoid inconvenience. We do not consider that this has a solution in the medium or short term."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/venezuela-cracks-down-on-bitcoin-mining/
They still have a power grid?
Substitute carbs with vegetables.
“Sometimes, behaviour can tip into cruelty, as Trentham experienced. Last year, he rented a furnished town house to two men — “Bitcoiners”, he says, inhaling slightly — for around $55,000 per month.”” 😅
The rise of the Manhattan mega renter @ The Financial Times
Zero is the Future of Money
Beyond crypto and fiat lies something more exciting than both
Brett Scott
https://www.asomo.co/p/the-crypto-credit-alliance
“… if you have that subconscious baseline viewpoint, but nevertheless come to have an awareness that modern money isn’t actually a commodity, it creates a cognitive dissonance that must force you down one of two paths:
* Path 1: Modify your concept of what a commodity is to calm the cognitive dissonance: Many people are aware that money isn’t literally a commodity, but nevertheless must find ways to describe it as if it were, and so default to thinking about it as a kind of mysterious ‘fictitious commodity’. The most common way to do this is to claim that we all just collectively decided - through an act of imagination or belief - to imbue it with value. It’s a bit like Peter Pan’s view of flying: money will fly as long as we all keep believing
* Path 2: See it as an imposter or fake commodity: I’ve given talks on global finance for over a decade, and I’ve lost count of the times when someone in the audience rants about how the real problem with finance is that money is ‘backed by nothing’, and that there’s no gold in the central bank’s vault, and that the system is therefore a giant Ponzi scheme made up of farcical units that are pretending to be a commodity, with some deceitful power that tries to force you to use them, or to deceive you into believing they are valuable”
If you look at economic collapses historically, everyone ends up giving everything to the farmers. No food, no life.
Swedish media seems to cover the EU well. But also it’s getting less comfortable with it. No-one really wants a German energy policy and French industrial planning.
Strippers fight the state for the right to transact more than anyone. We should honour this in film.
I was a skeptic of The Apartment Bombing conspiracy, but what’s happening now is making me reconsider.
Not a cult, right 😉
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when life gives you avocados
https://brotka.st/media/a9bf6598391803f11a69d3153c9994166d5e7637f0035bddf668e488edfbc4ff.webp
Congratulations! You got a whole tree!
Oh crypto 😂
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I mean, Scandi farm girls could do all those things, but they’d also respond to this question a bit more explicitly then TradTok would be happy showcasing 🤣
I think the podcast misunderstands what Hayek was hoping to achieve. Although if Hayek was alive today he’d be fascinated by Bitcoin!