Un-installed Twitter from my phone today; was consuming too much time / energy.

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The CIA theory is being pushed by Tucker Carlson. 😕

The CIA thing has really been spreading lately. Somebody is pushing that out there to deter people from Bitcoin. It’s effective in part because people without Bitcoin are looking for any excuse to justify their poor choice of being a no coiner.

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Let me ask you something. With all the already existing restrictions on the right to self defense, and then turning millions into potential felons over night with the bump stock ban (now overturned but the damage is already done, people were forced to get rid of legally acquired property or risk imprisonment), what exactly is your line too far? I assume you hold reverence for the Second Amendment. What part of that allows for any gun law? Its SHALL not be infringed, not SHOULD not be infringed. And since you like whataboutism, would you be defending the bump stock ban if it came from the dems?

What is your argument for taking our guns?

See that's the problem. People want OTHERS to offer solutions. Its not my place, nor politicians, to come up with YOUR solutions. When was the last time voting solved anything? Never. Always more laws, less freedoms. Lesser of two evils is whst got us here, so it aint gonna get us out. Keep simpin

There is NOTHING more important than the right to self defense. Gun grabbers are gun grabbers. Tyrants are tyrants. And you defending speaks volumes. So let's review. He's right about Warp Speed? He still brags. He was right to attack Syria for no reason? He was right to kill an iranian general for no reason? He was right to finance the Saudi war against the Yemeni people? He was right to appoint Powell, Haspel, Bolton, Pompeo, and other swamp creatures? He was right to increase debt to absurd levels? He was right to put a permanent legal framework in place to play covid lockdown again whenever? Framework that is slowly being reactivated while everyone is distracted by this piece of shit. Yea he's fucking perfect. Perfect puppet like all of them

Justify this #Trump supporters

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Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.

Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.

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