Roundtable_017 – Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin?
February 12, 2026
The Roundtable is back, and we are kicking off 2026 with some stories that I definitely didn’t have on my bingo card.
After catching
The Roundtable is back, and we are kicking off 2026 with some stories that I definitely didn’t have on my bingo card.
After catching
“Bitcoin is a lifeline. It is a money that cannot be shut down. Native money for the internet. But what happens when the internet gets
“You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar.”
~ Roy Sheinfeld
“It’s a dangerous business to help people out of slavery. But so what? We have to do this. This is a moral obligation, an ethical
“PearDrive is like, how could you make stuff seamless across devices and how can you leverage that device that has a lot of storage to
“Imagine the Stanford marshmallow experiment in reverse. Instead of getting a second marshmallow for waiting, the children are told that every fifteen minutes they wait,
“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
“The end of mankind wouldn’t even be biological in such an instance. It would be neurological.”
~ Copernican
What if AI’s biggest flaw
“To describe what’s coming as “impossibly borked” is charitable. This is going to be an unholy mess of indiscernible media, messaging, photography, and fakery. …
“If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is
“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
“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
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