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Found in the recent Epstein file leak. The video appears to show the inside of Epstein's cell on August 10th, 2019 - footage the DOJ previously denied existed. https://video.nostr.build/883d216e76ab08ef026ff25a1adc6c1d526f473bfd16a5f0c403e4add5a18d9b.mp4

If that's true, it is true to the same extent or even moreso for all standard encryption, such as bank accounts, web services, nuclear codes, electrical grids, etc... I don't know why it is such a scare tactic for Bitcoin specifically. When (and if) quantum computing happens on a large scale, the world will have far more to worry about than whether our Bitcoin is safe.

Why not read both? The best offense to Marxism starts by understanding it.

Lots of threads you could pull here, but my first thought is highlighting the difference between a representative as a delegate vs. a representative as a trustee. The former gauges a representative on how closely they follow the will of the people on any immediate day. The latter is basically the idea that the representative should stick to his principles regardless of the whims of the public. If a free-market libertarian is elected and the public suddenly thereafter demands socialism, is it the obligation of the representative to support socialism? Or is it the obligation of the populace to vote for a socialist in the next election?

Your proposal takes representative as a delegate to the extreme. Let's walk through some likely outcomes:

1. People are fickle about policy because their preferences adjust to immediate circumstances. You can imagine some pretty incoherent voting records coming out of that system. You can also imagine contradictory policies being passed.

2. People rarely wish to take the long hard path needed for prosperity and are more likely to vote for short term relief at the expense of the future.

3. Putting every issue to a vote by the populace means people need to be experts in every field or face voting based on vibes.

4. People are unlikely to vote on every single legislative issue, meaning the boring industry specific issues are likely to be unrepresentative of the public at large and far more representative of certain interest groups. You can bet industries will vote to enrich themselves at the cost of the public.

I think part of it is a failure to see that future as distinct from their current circumstances. People who are financially obligated to work often make sacrifices between the type of work they'd like to do and the job that will pay the bills. Additionally, people don't always have the ability to tell their boss to get lost, and they have far less time for family and vacation than they want. When you no longer need money, those pressures all disappear, and you have the ability to find a job that suits all of your needs and provides meaning.

I gave it a listen. The context was that you don't do a consensus level change to play whack a mole with individual styles of spam. A softfork pertaining to reducing or removing op_return is not that, so the irony you seem to be pointing out is superficial. And I think you know that.

Why so smug? And why gloat over failed attempts to keep spam off chain? I've watched both sides of the debate and your attitude of superiority is something I struggle to look past.

No way to know. But also, no reason to suspect that's true. Issuing paper Bitcoin is a seriously risky venture when the underlying asset is easy and cheap to self custody, can be sent instantly, and is verified every 10 minutes.

And complain when others are grateful.

- Warren Buffett, probably

Try celebrating the moments that make you happy. You might like it.

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What do my BTC stack and Hal Finney have in common?

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They're both in cold storage 🥁

Utilitarianism and its so-called opposite, Deontology, are both collectivist in some way, and run counter to a free society. Personally, I think theres a space somewhere between Aristotelian Ethics, Objectivism, and Stoicism that best suits a free society.

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"Faith" is belief in in something in the absence of evidence to support that belief. Faith is strongest when it is a belief held despite evidence to the contrary. In that sense, this is no more paradoxical than any requirement of faith.

Guy, you seem pretty heated on this issue. I really love your content, and listen to your show all the time. I just think on an issue this devisive it's good to remember theres always nuance and we never have a completely clear picture of the truth. All sides have incentive to lie. All sides have incentive to diminish their own role in things. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. All we can do is approximate justice based on what we think we know.

No refutation? Just name calling? What about my post upset you so much?

Iran has consistently called for the destruction of Israel for the last 20 years, has launched their own missiles into Israel (April 2024), and has funded and supported numerous terrorist groups like Hamas's October 7th attack on innocent civilians. If I were Israel I'd be pissed too.

Why are we only upset when Israel takes out Iranian leadership and hampers their nuclear program?

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