Tag: Bitcoin
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How many times? Every fucking time.
Listening to Club Car Special as part of my usual bedtime playlist. Club Car was a radio teaser for the humor page of Hearst papers, dramatizing some of the columns and cartoons to enrich your reading experience. One of the regular humorists was O O McIntyre. It struck me that Kirn’s short takes on Twitter […]
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Bitcoinoleth strikes again
From Balaji Srinivasan: See, this was stupid, because it’s *explicit* government censorship. The regime had a good scam going where they just got corporations to silence you in a deniable, decentralized way. But this gives the game away. Next q: how many times has this happened without being reported? How often has this happened? Always […]
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It still works
The story of Anna Delvey has a long resonance. Anna supposedly came from mysterious German aristocracy and took NYC by storm, paying for everything on credit. Her foreign fortune was always tied up in mysterious litigation and bureaucracy, but it would arrive any day now. Her scam only lasted a few years, even in fake-loving […]
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The rule holds
I’ve been observing a peculiar paradox for several years. People who have a sternly realistic and objective view of NEARLY all parts of life are pure gullible suckers for Bitcoin. Here’s a thinker with the best and clearest view of all the fakery in all branches of math and science and philosophy. Steve Patterson hits […]
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Kirn hits a home run
Kirn has a way with words! Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. This point has been […]
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The importance of plateaus
Assisted by the Kirn discussion, I connected two longtime themes. 1. Exponential vs tanh. Life doesn’t go exponential. Every individual, or company, or community, rises to a ceiling or plateau and stays there. Individuals die, but companies and organizations don’t necessarily die. Many have lasted for hundreds or thousands or years, by steady satisfaction with […]
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Well, that’s interesting.
I just got a bitcoin ransom threat via email. Immediately reported it to IC3 and FTC. Obviously didn’t reply or pay. Apparently this type of threat is familiar and known to be false. Several commenters on the FTC blog pasted the text of the threat, which was exactly the same as the one I received […]
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It’s not just the trademark
Speaking of big tech magazines properly mocking bitcoin…. Verge reports on Jack Dorsey’s switch from real digital payments to fake bitcoin. He plans to rename his existing payment service from Square to Block. HR Block has filed a trademark suit, which is on solid ground because Dorsey is expanding into fake tax services along with […]
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Still more bitcoin point-missing
Continuing to watch the odd imbalance of HARDASS realists on every other issue who are pure suckers and sellers of bitcoin. Greenwald is an unusually conscientious and thorough realist, trying harder than anyone else in the “journalism” realm to maintain perfect objectivity. He’s falling under the mysterious spell of bitcoin. Two weeks ago I noted […]
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Amazon is doing what Trump “wanted”.
Last year I predicted that electing Biden would solve many problems because the media and corporations would stop devoting ALL of their energy to FUCK_TRUMP FUCK_TRUMP FUCK_TRUMP. They might start protecting their own interests in ways that would accidentally improve American lives. Unfortunately they DIDN’T modify or decrease the HOLOCAUST. The demonic MDs (Mengele Doctors) […]
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Fake surprise
Vice magazine does a good job of exposing bitcoin frauds. In this case they’re not standing back far enough.. CIA claims that it’s just now starting to get involved in bitcoin to defend against fake “attacks” created by CIA. Vice takes this as gospel and bashes “conspiracy theorists” who observed the fact before CIA “revealed” […]
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Overloading the abacus
Listening to a long interview with Balaji Srinivasan. He’s one of those all-around realists selling bitcoin. Balaji also reminds me of another type that has been around for a long time. I don’t know if he belongs to this type, but the pattern fits. Cult leaders tend to overwhelm the listener with a wide range […]
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Olympic-quality swindle
Here’s a silly hypothesis. Bitcoin is a digital demon who specifically preys on realistic people. I’ve been observing in the last three years that most HARDASS realists, people who seem to grasp the overall picture of the world AS IT REALLY STANDS, are also selling Bitcoin. It’s a peculiar exception. Why should firm and consistent […]
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Endless Bitcoin point-missing
Greenwald has a long interview with a bitcoin activist. At least for the purposes of argument, Greenwald is taking the objective devil’s advocate side. As an experienced lawyer, he knows how to do this. The anonymous (clearly German) bitcoiner brings up all the usual stupid arguments about decentralizing and freedom from authority. Greenwald does an […]
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