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Tell me again why Satoshi decided to stay anonymous?

He’s on BlueSky now, go have fun nostr:note16750lq50yxxcwf62wn2w7vc7flpwqucy68vl00g77ufmqcs0dn9sdhpwp8

The future, while dark, is at least occasional hilarious

Alright folks,low taper fade until $1m

Not if you’re not selling and they’re not buying. nostr:note1ndh835nglyuvx4m0ljr0s0k036enzhu3uvjwqrdtpqukh005znts8xkkxq

“If a protocol upgrade makes Bitcoin (say) more scalable or more private, there is actually good reason to think this would make Bitcoin more valuable”

This would make bitcoin more useful to many people but not valuable to Harold who just wants to hodl IBIT. It becomes less interesting to the financial institutions who would prefer to keep themselves as the intermediaries. Privacy and scalability also open bitcoin up to political attack by Elizabeth Warren etc, something that could hold price down. There is a relationship between privacy/ scalability and institutional interest, and I don’t think it’s clear at all that it’s a positive correlation.

Please tell me this is just a exit liquidity pump for Charles and not anything that might happen IRL

Recess appointments for these folks is a line in the sand

The people you are describing are real and there's lots of them. I've spent a lot of time getting blocked on Bluesky (and getting called Nazi, transphobe, etc) for telling these folks to take it down a notch, precisely because of what has happened, people voted against the morons on the left without even considering who they're handing power over to. . So I'm not going to argue with you there. But I have no idea what you're talking about when you say these people have permeated the establishment in any sort of material way. The left worked Kamala for 4 months just to say the word "fascist" out loud.

But this all starts and ends when you just decide the other side is full of bad people. It's very polite of you not to call them immoral, but lumping them all into one horrible bin isn't much different.

"The process of becoming this crazy and brainwashed legit deserves a thorough analysis."

Yes, this begins with focusing all of your attention on the worst attributes on the other side. She probably spent the last years thinking all conservatives were Nazis. Now the way to not fall into this trap yourself is to not focus your time on the worst the other side has to offer.

The different between the right and left at this point is that this person would never make it anywhere within the power structure of the Democratic party, whereas if she supported Trump he would make sure to make her Secretary of the Interior or some shit.

The most bothersome thing about NGU is the fact that your ability to predict something like is pretty much proportional to your ability to universalize greed. The folks who saw this playing out first are at the very tip of the greed iceberg, most people thought, "why would I hoard this 'money' if I'm not actually going to use it anytime soon?"