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Nostr marker place when?

stuffs for zaps

Yes i definitely prefer liberal democracies ; then, because of technology they have much greater power on citizens (properties, money, privacy) than before (absolute monarchies or tyrannies as well of course) and without violence (tyrannies use both). Bitcoin is a solution to be counter balance that non obviously violent power they have and tend to abuse

Ethereum works like multi-level marketing schemes but in a more subtle way:

- scammers can use it to create various scams and make money out of it

- all this activity generates fees for the ethereum ecosystem that goes to eth stakers / holders

It’s actually pretty smart, as it can lasts as long as regulators don’t intervene, or that they run out of idiots

Ripple is Onecoin, but backed by some banks a bit

And that’s the people greenpeace takes money from

In the western world people in power are not worse than most times in history or places

They happen to have gained more control on property and money than ever in history, in parts for technological reasons

And power and control are things people naturally abuse of, specially the type of people that want it in the first place

Bitcoin is a tool to remove that excess of control and to peacefully change the power dynamics

Of course he will still be here in 5 years: he has good doctors paid by hefty fees 🤓

Stack sats, spend sats, replace sats

Stay humble, don’t trade, don’t shitcoin, don’t lever

Save & spend, convince friends, merchants, restaurants you go to

All we need for a peaceful revolution is enough people doing just that

Actually that’s german, just appeared in french for me i am stupid 🤦‍♂️

That + Alain Chamfort: are you dating a french girl? 🤓🤷‍♂️😂

White lotus is not bad. It copies a bit the swedish guy who got 2 golden palms, but still quite better than most shows

Bitcoin limits the inherent co-dependence of money and power

Just because it’s unconditionnaly ours, very hard to seize, impossible to dilute

Bitcoin is a revolution

It’s not right or left, it’s not liberty versus equality

It will make the world freer and fairer both

Just because it gives back money to the people, it allows anyone to save and spend freely, fairly

Ok let’s talk for real about something else than bitcoin

Let’s talk about ecb!

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Let’s talk about something other than bitcoin

Satoshis for instance

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Et toi Papa, tu faisais quoi pendant la grande révolution pacifique du système monétaire ?

Oh je faisais des boucles Zk2 roll usdc to eth to cbeth to wbeth pour gagner 1,5 pct….

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No. But Elon is far more aggressive in selling to investors things that don’t exist and are not feasible short term. Then he is able to deliver some of them longer term, and this is impressive but he should not lie so aggressively and the regulator should pursue him more aggressively when he does imo

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

He is a genius marketer but he also has an ability (or his teams) to miraculously deliver and save himself of his lies. I remember 2018/2019 and Tesla on the verge of running out of cash, the production nightmares etc. He lied, as you said, repeatedly, with taking private 420, with robotaxis everywhere in 2 years thanks to fully autonomous vehicle he knew were impossible, he raised money on those lies, and was successful at solving the issues (probably thanks to the money he raised on those lies)

Musk is certainly selling narratives and lies but he is also, certainly also quite good at getting things done. There is an issue with regulator and justice punishing only the liars who fail. Basically, if Elizabeth Holmes had in the end found a business model for Theranos, the fake tests would have been forgotten. As long as you don’t punish liars who succeed, despite their success, you will continue seeing Holmes, Maddoffes, Bankman-Fried the guy from Fyre Festival etc. This fake it till you make it ethos is a bad one