“you ask, what is Bitcoin, Tucker, but really we have to go back to Stornetta and Haber, to Diffie and Hillman, to Hayek. you are familiar with the coverup of the failure of the Bank of England’s war loan in 1914, I assume?”
🧡 Only The Strong Survive 🧡
A Philosophical, Technical, and Economic Critique of Prospects in “Crypto” Beyond Bitcoin
by yours truly and my partner in crime,
@Big_Al256
, who, it cannot be denied, hits dingers.
Bitcoin requires so much computing activity that it eats up more energy than entire countries. One of the easiest and least disruptive things we can do to fight the
#ClimateCrisis
is to crack down on environmentally wasteful cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin -$3600. In under 2 hours.
This is not savings, not money, not even currency.
Nothing but a speculation, a casino chip. Will it go up to $100K and beyond? Maybe. I don't know, and neither do the glib voices who assure you it will.
I'm almost embarrassed I never thought to try this before, but this is a long-term graph of the S&P 500 *as priced in gold*.
let's call it Cantillon's graph. it is utterly damning and it should make you very, very mad.
h/t
@TuurDemeester
🧵
#bitcoin
is not libertarian. it is apolitical.
the reason you think it is libertarian is that you have been conditioned to live in a world in which everything is political.
you might wanna snap out of that if you want to have the slightest clue what is happening around you.
the big problem with providing clean drinking water for 500,000 people is that in the course of doing so you draw attention to the fact that 500,000 people previously didn't have clean drinking water.
on balance, that doesn't seem worth it.
While American YouTuber MrBeast’s goal was to provide clean drinking water for 500,000 people, activists say his actions shamed the Kenyan government and helped perpetuate the stereotype that Africa is "dependent on handouts."
"How could Sequoia Capital do this? Why would they think it was a good idea? Why would they brag about it in cringe-worthy fan fiction?
Honestly, why would they not?"
the ultimate heuristic in understanding the fiat finance stack is to ignore all the crap in the middle because you know it all ends in the same place anyway:
"how dare you jump off this sinking ship! that makes it more likely everybody else will sink!"
expect this kind of shit to dramatically increase in quantity, frequency, and aggression.
when you go from the UK to the US and you sell your pounds for dollars, you aren’t “speculating”, you’re just pretty sure the people there are gonna prefer them in exchange for stuff.
bitcoin is like that except when you are going to the future.
@MattWallace888
BTC & ETH are pursuing a multilayer transaction system, but base layer transaction rate is slow & transaction cost is high.
There is merit imo to Doge maximizing base layer transaction rate & minimizing transaction cost with exchanges acting as the de facto secondary layer.
🧡💜 Bitcoin Is Venice is now free! (as in freedom *and* as in beer) 💜🧡
please, for the love of God, download this and read it on a laptop, in a comfy chair, with a fine liqueur.
anybody trying to read it on their phone is getting blocked.
these people have no idea what they've just done.
#bitcoin
is now the universally applicable, single-issue pro-freedom schelling point that has never previously existed.
and now they are clumsily conspiring to attack it, outing themselves as unequivocally anti-freedom.
introducing Buttcoin, a new cryptocurrency that will be distributed fairly by my cantillionaire friends (promise!)
we protect your privacy by collecting data from your anus and storing your poop forever.
details about how it works not important. it uses blockchain technology.
with this horrific deflation, everybody working in the storage market refused to take nominal pay cuts which led to unemployment, while consumers constantly deferred their purchases which led to a pullback in capital investment.
it's been a disaster all around, really.
#TRON
Announces Its Bitcoin Layer 2 Solution and Road Map
Today is a significant day for
#TRON
.
Let's make
#Bitcoin
fun again!
As the protocol behind the world's largest stablecoin market, boasting $55 billion, and the decentralized finance Total Value Locked (TVL) of $22
I've realized something that others may well have realized long ago, may reflect my naivety and optimism, but is now made me seriously doubt things can or will improve.
there is an alarming proportion of people who, having caved before authoritarianism ...
1/n
wait, wait, wait.
so you're telling me that the US government tried to kneecap crypto and inadvertently catalyzed the biggest fractional reserve contagion of all time?
Was Silvergate deliberately destroyed by the US government? Shareholders deserve answers. Why did the FHLB abruptly and with no notice recall their loan, effectively dooming them? FOIA anyone?
Thiel > Andreessen
Musk > Gates
Balaji > the media
Texas > California
Miami > SV
China > pretending China isn't ferociously capitalist and isn't out-innovating the US in many areas
hardware > software
₿ > $
let's check back in ten years and see how this played out, shall we? 😃
open question for fiatbros:
how do you think this is going to end? seriously, what's your plan? does the debt ever come down? does inflation ever stop? if so, *how*? *precisely how*?
"see no evil, hear no evil" is not an answer. evil is afoot and you need to act.
green insanity will become politically untenable for 5-10 years in Europe after the human catastrophe of winter 22/23.
but we ought to pile on such that it doesn’t just get quiet for a while but rather becomes inextricably linked with misery, poverty, sickness, and death.
the total failure of vaccines to prevent transmission was widely known a year and a half ago. that’s not the news.
the news is that they have finally decided to stop lying about it and have instead started denying that they ever did lie.
the chaos in crypto is what happens when you have fractional reserve banking without a central bank.
tradfi would be exactly as chaotic if they weren’t constantly and forever stealing from you to prop it up.
I sincerely apologize for ever having endorsed or defended
@elonmusk
.
whatever his achievements, he is a selfish prick. one day he will claim this was all a joke and try to weasel his way back in. but we'll say no, because the worst crime of all is it's not even funny 🤷♀️
there is nothing more late-stage fiat capitalism than financial professionals telling you that "capital is cheap".
capital is scarce.
*credit* is cheap, and, as a result, all capital everywhere is mispriced and misallocated.
Javier Milei continues his fascist rampage in Argentina.
He has authorised the Privatising of all remaining State owned industries (thats his donors cashing in).
He has also authorised the sale of all Social Housing and removed all rent controls
It is going exactly as expected
I thought worldcoin was some dystopian nightmare, then our team realised how many metric fucktons of fiat we could make dumping this garbage on retail, as well as how much clout we would acquire being associated with the ChatGPT guy.
I thought Worldcoin was some dystopian Orwellian nightmare, then our team invested hundreds of hours evaluating what the project’s contributors have actually built and I completely changed my mind - why we led the latest financing
1/
periodic reminder that anybody who endorsed Luna is at best financially illiterate and at worst a criminal.
do not entrust them with your assets, do not take their financial advice, and, most importantly, do not take them seriously.
tag em in the replies for megalolz 🤣🥳
she’s just laid out for you much of modern, progressive, liberated, fiat AF life is a wage slaving scam, and you’re yelling at her to go back in the pod 😕
billionaires adopting bitcoin is not good news because it pushes the greatest ever tool for human freedom and prosperity a tiny bit further out the reach of those who need it most.
countries adopting bitcoin is f**£ing unbelievably good news 😍
number of people go up 🧡
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#bitcoin
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feedback welcome! (unless it's negative, in which case you will be blocked)
Taleb, the writer, is a genius.
Taleb, the tweeter, is a bullying, cowardly, bullshitting charlatan.
that’s the short version. here is the long version:
1. Amazon logistics
Instead of having large distribution centers, Use decentralized mini warehouses (e.g. your backyard) for storage & drivers pick up merchandises from closest storage location. Delivery fees paid in warehouse tokens are earned by warehouse owners.
No one’s asking where the yield was coming from…
In 2020/2021 you had the GBTC arbitrage, the futures market basis premium, etc.
Then those both disappeared, and everyone went to the anchor protocol with UST, and blew up, which has brought us to where we are today…
🤦♂️
in case anybody is feeling at all optimistic, remember this is much worse than just energy. this is the culmination of 10+ years of near universal capital misallocation.
everything is broken and the only way out is to print money ...
this is honestly the funniest thing you will read all year. it merits repeat readings. you will constantly find new bits you think are the funniest (literally just happened to me on my 4th read 🤣)
About inflation: the price increases we're seeing are due to supply chain issues worsened by COVID. They are not permanent.
We need to understand this. If we panic & raise interest rates, rather than strengthening infrastructure to help the supply chain, unemployment will go up.
I can't believe I've been nerd sniped into this but, oh well, here goes, as long as it takes to thoroughly debunk ...
the very first sentence gives away an unforgivable conceptual flaw. there is no such thing as "deflationary money," only degrees of inflation.
1/n
The only way you reach this conclusion is by completely ignoring everything we've learned about behavioral economics. Which Austrians do a lot.
Deflationary money leads to an economy of thrift, because:
1. A deflationary currency, by definition, increases purchasing power
inflation has sweet fuck all to do with "supply side issues", "demand side issues", "ukraine", "covid", blah blah fucking establishment bullshit blah.
it has to do with money printing and capital misallocation, which is a consequence of money printing.
@clairlemon
can you imagine being a rich country and literally forcing vaccines on people who are not vulnerable to avoid political embarrassment when there are vulnerable people in poor countries literally crying out for them?
this is the silver lining of covid hysteria. it was so offensively stupid that we are now above the key threshold where people are comfortable saying in public that The Science™ is political bullshit.
NEW: Boris Johnson is considering allowing 50-year mortgages that can be passed down from parents to their children in a bid to help people onto the housing ladder.
No10 thinks it is one option that would allow people to borrow more cash.
any country that gets its shit together wrt personal, economic, and (I seriously can't believe I even need to say this) *medical* freedom will have its pick of the most morally upstanding and economically productive immigrants in the world.
1/n
a trust is not an ETF.
sure would be nice if we had some adults in the room who understand the first fucking thing about securities before they start tweeting.
probably no group in human history has done more damage to the environment than "environmentalists".
the ultimate source of the climate being a political issue is that nuclear power is politically impossible.
we are in the early innings of the exact same thing with
#bitcoin
🧵