Tag: Bitcoin
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Today is Bean Counter Day
The day after the traditional (but not observed) Income Tax Day has been dedicated to accountants and bookkeepers and clerks. Clerks are insultingly called bean-counters by grandiose executives who want to eat all the beans. Following today’s theme, clerks are the internal negative feedback mechanism for predatory capitalists. When the exec wants to LBO the…
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Reprint on Platonic crap
Reprinting this from just a few months ago because I feel like it. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via MindMatters. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mark Balaguer defends the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm. This realm is frequently referred to as the Platonic realm. Mathematics is like nothing…
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Democracy in one county
Stalin’s slogan was Socialism in one country. Trotsky was a globalist who wanted to conquer the world to prove a point. Stalin was a nationalist who wanted to improve his own country. Now there’s a new slogan: Democracy in one county. One county in Texas, solitary and alone among all counties and cities and states…
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Refreshing
John Ray, in charge of cleaning up Sammy’s bankrupt fraud, offers some welcome clarity. Most of the time we hear cautious lawyered-up buzzwords from people in Ray’s position. = = = = = START RAY: Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of…
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Nice conclusion
Unsurprising but nice: A British court finds that Craig Wright’s claim to be Satoshi is false. Several of his accomplices are leaving the sinking ship. Wright is just a suer. Nothing else. He made big money from a pre-bitcoin fraud, and has been using his fortune to run an endless series of mostly losing lawsuits.…
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Converse
I’ve made the same observation about long-distance communication and languages, but for some reason didn’t fully assemble the two observations. Time to assemble. = = = = = Long-distance communication systems are always built by conquering armies and stock swindlers. The Chappe system was the archetype. It was built by the globalist “science”-godded tyrants of…
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Thar’s gold in them thar shills
The NFT scam is still running, though it’s obviously running on a digital manifestation of an expression of a hyperlink to a mention of vapors. These people are trying to sell the concept to artists by treating art as “a manifestation of an expression of who I am”. In some vaporous way, NFTs help to…
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Why did they choose Sammy?
Wondering why the regulators went after Sammy hard and heavy. Other bitcoin players of the same type, notably Sam Altman, are on top of the world despite engaging in equally slimy rackets. Sammy’s racket attracted rich criminals, carefully selected by his obvious location. Anyone who CHOSE to invest a million in a dubious venture located…
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More things I learned from others
Recently I gathered up five learnings acquired from others. It’s time to add one more, which isn’t especially recent but was missed in the previous listing. = = = = = START REHASH: Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these facts on my own, and I’m grateful to…
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The one piece
It’s sort of reassuring when one of the Smartest Dudes In The World turns out to be dumb and lucky. Do Kwon, one of the Bitcoin SDITW, was arrested and jailed a year ago. Via Protos, some details about his arrest have popped out now. = = = = = START PROTOS: Attempting to leave…
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Sammy still leading cult
Via Protos: = = = = = START QUOTE: Writing to US district judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing SBF’s sentencing, Carmine Simpson, who is currently incarcerated alongside Bankman-Fried, claimed, “I have had the honor to have gotten to know Sam over the past six months.” He added, “Sam is the most selfless person that…
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Logging the experiment
Along with internal worklogs, keeping a blog with tags is a valuable way of tracking the experiment of life. Just now I added the bitcoin tag to an item about Sammy, then looked at the bottom of the blog where BITCOIN is by far the largest tag. I don’t FEEL like I’m obsessed with bitcoin,…
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Second vector
Via Protos, Sammy’s old mentor is being tried for fraud. This part of the story hasn’t been mentioned in the media before. = = = = = START PROTOS: Joe Lewis, the billionaire former Premier League football club owner who sold Sam Bankman-Fried more than $76 million worth of property in the Bahamas, is set…
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Still smells the same
Wired is covering the silly trial where Craig Wright is trying to prove his false claim to be Satoshi. Along with the stupid lawyer tricks, the trial has also pulled some previously unseen emails into the public eye. The emails show Satoshi collaborating with a team of acolytes. As with the C++ code, the tone…
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Already scriptable
I enjoy reading Protos accounts of the bitcoin swindlers. Protos started as a pro-bitcoin advocate, then gradually wised up and turned into a more objective reporter. Nice to see a company DIverging instead of CONverging into a crime. Stories about Craig Wright are especially entertaining because nobody takes him seriously by now. There’s no risk…
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