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When Peter interviewed the fed guy Joseph Wang he asked why we need the Fed.

Wang’s answer was: before the Fed there were market crashes and the private sector would have to step in. You don’t want to always have to rely on the private sector, you need public insurance. (He didn’t say this in so many words, but this was the gist of his response). Thus allowing the fractional reserve banking to continue.

If Tesla cannot survive as a business without government subsidies, it’s not a viable business model.

If a bank fails because they took the reserve fraction too low and couldn’t pay their debtors they should go out of business, not have their losses socialized.

If a bunch of banks fail simultaneously then the *system* needs to change, not have *all* the losses socialized.

If you socialize the losses then banks are *incentivized* to take greater risks. It’s a perverse incentive.

Same thing with a Nostr relay.

Hopefully improving quickly.

Got any questions?

I’m interested in honing my teaching of bitcoin.

I, too, fall somewhere between knowing nothing and everything.

Bring back the guillotine

Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

(Posted on Twitter because it’s more relevant there, but I won’t link to it so you don’t have to experience that place 😂)

The great insanity of our time has been:

The idea that facts cannot be shared or discussed, if they don’t support “the correct conclusion.”

People who want to discuss a major topic or problem honestly, are met with extreme hate and vicious denouncement if the truth or facts they find aren’t perfectly aligned with The Narrative.

• Are deaths and injuries from all weather and climate related issues plummeting and projected to continue? This is “dangerous” and makes you a “denier” and must be censored. Not because it isn’t true, it’s because it questions the “final solution” that has already been decided by the political class.

• Are there 10s of thousands of reports of deaths and extremely serious injury associated with the vaxzein? If you say anything at all other than “safe and effective” or even talk to someone who has been injured, you are a literal murderer of innocent old grandmothers & you’re probably racist too.

• Does a woman have a vagina? This is so profoundly evil that each utterance of it is literal genocide of trans people.

The words literally slice through the air like crazed dementors on the hunt and cut down trans people like word demons, blood flying everywhere. The horrors of such a grammatical tyranny can never be recovered from. It’s instant death to 1000s.

EVERY issue seems to be met with this same stubborn and narcissistic box that is riddled with lies, twisted statistics, & half truths. And it’s being used to excuse the most horrible forms of censorship violations of individual rights.

Step outside of the approved box with even the most utterly basic of facts, and you’re an evil, racist, treasonous conspiracy theorist (or literally any other disgusting label they can conjure)

This does SO much damage to the discussion because not only are people not allowed to hold a sober, nuanced position on anything, but when you hear someone spread blatant lies and then they start screaming like a lunatic when you point it out and call you a murderer - then what remotely intelligent or sensible person would believe absolutely anything that person says again?

It has led to the total breakdown of trust in our institutions that is so bad that people will literally believe *any* crazy story for no other reason than they are certain they are being lied to with the “approved narrative.”

The establishment losing their minds over people believing anything they find on the internet, need to look in the mirror. They have been pouring gasoline on this fire for *years.*

The establishment has made it perfectly clear, over and over again, that truth is subject to any change necessary so that it aligns with “the good guys’ [insert approved conclusion]”

Problem is, as I see it, knowingly lying, censoring the truth, & viciously attacking - even putting people in cages - for speaking the truth, has never been what “the good guys” do.

Hope you have a great day 😁👍🏻

You posting this shows how Nostr fixes this.

Censorship resistance moves to the top of the priority list over reach, especially during the next 18 months.

2024 gonna be lit if Trump is the nominee.

One day, a solution will hit someone like a bolt of lightning

The best part about all of the last few years is the fact that the genpop fully understands that all the news media is biased. Any pretense of unbiased reporting has been stripped away.

If the SEC is forced to legitimize the bitcoin marketplace they will probably resort to increasingly devious *alternate* measures to suppress the dollar flight. That and blackrock needing more sats are a couple catalysts for this price fixing.

So, yeah, probably spot on.

That happened to me a few days ago.

How did you do it?

That’s what I thought.

Just means they have to more creative and get a friendlier judge.

So the cheapest bitcoin could be GBTC, until it returns to NAV?

Hopefully not, cuz if there’s some other catalyst that would be awesome!

Does this still require SEC approval, or does this prohibit SEC disapproval (if that makes sense)?