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Read_382 – This is Not Capitalism [Allen F. & Sacha M.]

You are not going to want to miss this incredible piece on exactly how far we have strayed from anything resembling “capitalism,” or even the goal of accumulating and growing the capital that improves our lives.

“This is your brain on central banking, regulatory capture, and financialization.”  – Sacha & Allen
Check out the original and hit that clap button excessively on both Allen and Sacha’s pages below
• https://medium.com/@allenfarrington/this-is-not-capitalism-5ed0a9d5dfa9
• https://medium.com/@sachameyers/this-is-not-capitalism-7d5ab7b31f90
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Read_381 – An Important Reminder… [Marty Bent]

“You can’t dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it.”  –...

Read_380 – Choose Your Fiction [Arthur Hayes]

“All I know is the setup for bitcoin, the hardest form of digital money, could not be better. All manners of trust have evaporated. In order to solve for...

Chat_35 – Catch-22 Trillion with the Raleigh Bitcoiners

You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The Raleigh Bitcoin Crew goes down the rabbit hole with… Infinite money printing Who really runs things? Inflation and the...

Read_379 – Dont be Misled by Red Herrings – Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco]

“It is the digital equivalent of your physical bank sending private investigators to follow your every move for days after you withdraw cash at the ATM, and then freezing...

Read_379 – Dont be Misled by Red Herrings – Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco]

“It is the digital equivalent of your physical bank sending private investigators to follow your every move for days after you withdraw cash at the ATM, and then freezing or confiscating your bank account entirely if that PI comes back with a report that says that “you may have,” with some probability, engaged in controversial actions with that cash.”  – Giacomo Zucco
A great closing the Giacomo’s Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy at Bitcoin Magazine. What are the Red herrings we have to navigate to determine the truth of privacy on Bitcoin, and the many (non)alternatives. Is there a perfect privacy option, or do they all come with numerous costs and explicit trade-offs? 
Check out the original article over at Bitcoin Magazine, plus the thousands of other great pieces on everything you could ever want to know about Bitcoin and the history of this space:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-treatise-on-bitcoin-and-privacy-part-2-dont-be-misled-by-red-herrings
Listen to Part 1 if you haven’t yet: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/Read_375—A-Match-Made-in-the-Whitepaper—Treatise-on-Bitcoin–Privacy–Part-1-Giacomo-Zucco-ech00u
Here is the video thrown together by myself and a few other great Raleigh Bitcoiners, Living on Bitcoin in 2020 – What its REALLY like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmUpp3J9Ck

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Read_378 – Bitcoin: A Bold American Future [Conner Brown]

“Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary intervention after the financial crisis, results have been disappointing. The American people do not need accounting tricks or more debt, but true innovation. Thankfully,...

Read_377 – Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money [Sven Schnieders]

“Although I mostly agree with their reasoning and share the enthusiasm for such a free market, I cannot stop being astonished by the naivety of the idea.”  – Sven...

Read_376 – Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo]

“Beware of what I call Pascal’s scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive...