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Geek. Bitcoiner. Economist.

Don't confuse the way that economics is perverted by politicians and the actual practitioners of the discipline. For example, very few actual economists (even among those on the left) would tell you that protectionist tariffs or price controls will end well. That doesn't stop politicians from finding a few misguided souls that will shill a policy like that.

"Custodial DEX"? Sounds like an oxymoron.

Replying to Avatar Trey Walsh

Who cares what two authoritarians think about Bitcoin? Let's worry a little more about folks being abducted and sent by one to the other without due process…

Meanwhile, I can't use my original Bitcointalk login because the mods disabled it after their user database was compromised and me owning the email domain since before Bitcoin even existed is apparently not good enough.

That would be a problem with *central* planning, I agree. The beautiful thing about the market process is that it allows market actors to coordinate so that their expectations are, more often than not, fulfilled.

The expectation of future demand is what creates supply.

More #OPNEXT content: very intimidating guard outside Strategy HQ yesterday.

Is it just me, or did one of those sandwiches at lunch taste suspiciously like cat?

Replying to Avatar Forever Laura

I made a mistake during my Bitcoin lecture last week in the university of Bologna. One I’m not going to repeat. I assumed something. And I shouldn’t have.

Since I was talking about my job, I told the students that a big part of it is debunking myths around Bitcoin...

You know, the usual stuff: Bitcoin is a Ponzi, it’s going to zero, it’s killing the planet. I built like 15 slides for this. I was ready to fight. Ready to debunk every single one of them, one by one.

So I asked them: “What’s something negative you’ve heard about Bitcoin?”

Silence. No one raised their hand. No one mentioned pollution. No one said anything about volatility or scams. These were 22 years old, curious, open-minded, and genuinely there to learn. They didn’t have myths to unlearn.

So there I was, spending the next 20 minutes talking about gas flaring, carbon-negative mining, and all the reasons Bitcoin is not what “they” say it is. But “they,” in this case, didn’t even exist. The only person bringing up those narratives was me.

And that’s when it hit me. All these years in the Bitcoin scene have trained my brain to always be on the defensive. To expect resistance. To anticipate criticism. And that mindset slowly killed a part of the joy I used to feel when I first learned about Bitcoin.

Back then, no one had told me it was bad. I just found it exciting, revolutionary, empowering. My brain wasn’t busy filtering negative takes it was busy being amazed.

That beginner’s energy, that childish awe, that sense of discovering something precious, it’s something I want to reconnect with. I don’t want to be the person who walks into a room full of open minds and immediately starts talking about the bad things people say.

I want to talk about freedom from banks and government, creativity, women empowerment, potential. I’m not saying I’ll stop responding to critics when necessary. But I want to stop assuming that everyone is a critic.

There are way more people out there who are just curious, interested, open to learning, than there are loud contrarians I’ll never change the mind of anyway.

From now on, I want to speak to the curious ones. Not the ghosts in my head.

Similarly, most* of my students arrive without this baggage. But they do arrive having heard a lot of hype about shitcoins like Ripple. :(

* I did have one student refuse to take part in a class exercise because she didn't want to promote terrorism. :(