Tag: Bitcoin
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Mouse countries
In human hierarchies and in national hierarchies, you have to KNOW YOUR PLACE. Status is innate and permanent among humans and among countries. When you’re the mouse, you have to avoid pissing off the nearest cat. Eastern Europe traditionally understood its mousy position, stuck between Germany and Russia. Those countries ALSO understood that America and…
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More on central vs decentral
Continuing with the Sucker Filter of bitcoin. Another obviously fraudulent claim is privacy. Running all of your transactions through NSA is not the ideal way to preserve privacy. NSA is a SPY AGENCY which knows better than anyone else how to break cryptography and bust through software limitations. Even more obviously, the transactions themselves can…
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There’s gambling in a casino?????!!!!
Astonishingly, JPMorgan turns out to be the power behind Ethereum. The responses from the cult leaders are predictable: The same thing that happened with the internet (Web2) is happening to Web3. Stand up and fight for decentralization while you still can and don’t lose focus because of greed. Decentralization IS greed, you idiot. Decentralization is…
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Sucker filter in pricing
As usual, Wolf’s excellent graphs show the end of the “pandemic” project. This was planned as a two-year project, March 2020 to March 2022. A specific set of stock demons were scheduled to Zoom up during the two years. Zoom, real estate flippers, delivery services. They knew the schedule, so they knew when to pull…
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The one mistake
Passing Parade was a ’40s show along the same general lines as Hix and MacHarrie. Passing Parade dramatized a few incidents from the past, with a lesson for the present. This episode dramatizes a famous crime and detection that I’d never heard before. The lesson is highly unusual, running counter to the normal meritocratic idiocy.…
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Every fucking time 2
Kirn points out the obvious. Utopian schemes are never new, but their followers always believe they’re founding a glorious new dawn of perfect life and perfected humanity. They always fall into the same trap, losing their money and their time and sometimes their lives, while the founders abscond with the money. Every fucking time. You…
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If this isn’t enough….
I’ve been saying from the fucking start that fucking Bitcoin is a creation of NSA to serve Deepstate’s fucking purposes. If the last 10 fucking years of constant daily fucking proofs didn’t convince you yet, how about this? Weaponry and cyberwar: How Bitcoin funds anti-Russia efforts in Ukraine Enough for you? No, obviously not. You’re…
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Randomly related
Random crap, vaguely related to previous random story about the bitcoin rapping power couple… Some smart observers have concluded that the bitcoin racket is the male equivalent of MLMs. Most MLMs are explicitly aimed at women, selling cosmetics, weight reduction, and cooking supplies. Bitcoin is selling pure numbers. Competition is based on X > Y…
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Woke or rogue?
The tiny handful of realists who are ALSO realistic about Bitcoin are having a grand old time with the rapping Power Couple who hacked and laundered a massive quantity of Bitcoin. Theoretically the amount they moved would be worth 4 billion dollars if you could convert it to actual money, which of course you couldn’t.…
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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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