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HAHAHAH bro you are like batting 1000% right now @alex@gleasonator.com

I worry that one of the largest current threats to #bitcoin is regulatory capture. There is a possible future in which bitcoin becomes very valuable, but it almost all resides in highly regulated ETF-like investment vehicles. This would be a disappointing future, with so much missed opportunity. And so I am sad to see so many bitcoiners celebrating ETFs, and the like.

View YouTube, Twitter and Reddit without distraction and without tracking:

https://invidio.us (for YouTube)
https://nitter.net (for Twitter)
https://teddit.net (for Reddit)

If you know of any other front-ends available, tell us.

Here’s How a Real Scientist Studies Whether Masks Help to Stop Covid

A nuanced and detailed review of the studies. Form your own conclusions !

https://indianlibertyreport.com/heres-how-a-real-scientist-studies-whether-masks-help-to-stop-covid/

I've came to realize this over the last 3 years or so when I started using #DuckDuckGo as my default search. Initially I'd often fall back on Google results, but over time I came to realize they were actually often worse.

RT @hn50: Ask HN: Has #Google search been worse at finding information lately?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460092

This is how Keynesians think:

“We should be happier to have a job than to have our savings protected.”

— Christine Lagarde

Eric Weinstein Is the Latest “Thinker” To Confuse Economics With Maths

A decent caricature of Weinstein’s position is that until everything has been mathematized, economics remains unscientific.

https://indianlibertyreport.com/eric-weinstein-is-the-latest-thinker-to-confuse-economics-with-maths/

How Fear is Used To Form Public Opinion in Democracies – A Short Summary

In reality, we have never been healthier and better protected in all of human history.
With bonus video.

https://indianlibertyreport.com/how-fear-is-used-to-form-public-opinion-in-democracies-a-short-summary/

GUESS WHAT BITCOIN DENIERS?

OTHER PEOPLE VALUE THINGS DIFFERENTLY TO YOU

You're marking a year of COVID starting when Tom Hanks announced he was ill and the NBA was suspended. I'm marking a year of COVID starting when some rando degen crashed the Bitmex order book and liquidity evaporated. We are not the same

Pumping Iron

https://cryptohayes.medium.com/pumping-iron-ae8a54a32ea2

"Build a portfolio of long crypto plus long interest rate volatility. Walk away and watch the fireworks."

#Bitcoin #BitMEX #ArthurHayes #CryptoHayes #100X

RT IM
Re March 20, 2020. All of the people on this stage knew masks worked, and yet put everyone inside this room in danger by not wearing them.
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1368293218945658880 #Mises

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There are basically two options to build on #Bitcoin: You either accept and adhere to mostly nonsensical regulation (even worse: preemptive compliance) or you embrace its cryptoanarchic nature and confront all of that legacy bs which Bitcoin is supposed to obsolete.

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Rudy Havenstein held the table for eleven games.: The most offensive Dr. Seuss book ever...

#etf

https://twitter.com/mises/status/1367494287424905223 #Mises

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Another example of "Fediverse First".

Meaning, more and more conversations occurring on Mastodon that are not occurring on Twitter (or late in getting there).

https://twitter.com/P2P_bitcoin/status/1367580653617840131

#Bitcoin #Fediverse #Mastodon #BitcoinMastodon #FediverseFirst

The ongoing uncertainty around taproot activation is a feature, not a bug.

#bitcoin

404 BTC ransom. We don't know if it was paid or not (my guess: it was), the apps are now back up.

It's not *exactly* "people couldn't start their cars because the manufacturer got hacked", but it's very close to that, which is so ridiculous.

Consider how much more pressure the company was under to fold to the attack, because they built business around centralized servers instead of actual customer ownership.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39309/the-apparent-hackers-behind-kias-ransomware-attack-are-demanding-millions-in-bitcoin

#bitcoin