“Of course, central banking, fiat money is bad, but nevertheless, maybe AI and robotics and this productivity is going to be really beneficial to the global economy, not just the U.S. economy.
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“Bitcoin needs to be exciting because it provides a utility that no other technology provides. The value transfer technology needs to be embedded in every application in the world. Period. That’s super exciting.”
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“My problem with the core side has been what we talked about with the people that are technical and don’t have the empathy or understand what it was like before you were [technical]. The core

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“If you can get a court to say you’re Satoshi, and you are of this mindset, you can then go ahead and you can sue Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin exchanges, whatever, to say, “look, I’ve got

“I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are onlyinterested in the monetary use case. But I think that many of them take

“Bitcoiners have a spirit. I think the spirit is an ancient spirit. It goes back to the American Revolution. It goes back to the Magna Carta. It goes back to ancient Greece. It goes back

“The necessity for guys to be around other good guys and girls to be around other good girls… we had that really well structured all throughout history. We fucked it all up over the last

“If you have this disconnect between Core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else, something’s got to give at some point, right? Either you get developers that are more in

“One of the founding tenets of anarcho-capitalism [is] that in a world without a government, you would have insurance contracts as the means for negotiating, disputing things. This actually goes into the original firedepartments were

“When you hold the Bitcoin yourself, you already have the control over it that you don’t get with any other custodial financial instrument. And I think that people need to think about that more because

“The atomic economy and Synonym’s mission is to research, design and ship a working free market society. So not just a free market economy, but a free market society. /CUT/ So it replaces government, it

“It’s that old saying, right? It’s that meme. It’s like, however bad you think it is, it’s going to get worse, right? But at the same time, it’s also going to get better.So be very

“The whole MNav trade, it has as much implied leverage on the way down as it does on the way up.I have a lot of sympathy for the idea that actually this is what triggers

“There have never been more tools available to the individual than there have been today.And it’s like cryptography is like the thing. If cryptography is like the wheel, like we invented the wheel. Okay, cool.

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