If you don't trust the government with your money, why are you trusting them with your children?
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LLMs have not just increased the volume of spam, but have blurred the line—the distinguishing marker—between signal and noise in every content arena.
Your boomer relatives are getting wrecked by phones right now.
Put your money where your mouth is.
You don't get to route around the powers that be for free.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #498


Bitcoin Tech Talk #498
Interesting Stuff
I'd hate to say it, but Trump getting assassinated would have saved his presidency and legacy, much in the same way it did with Lincoln.
Quantum Computing will never die as long as there are people who are incentivized to make it seem like more than it is.
Hard forks are a clever way for investors (VCs, mostly) to exit losing investments.
They'll run the same playbook as they did with ZCash, just watch.
Pride says that you have ideas.
Humility says that the ideas have you.
In retrospect the country-by-country bans/restrictions/taxes on smoking (~2005-2015) was the canary in a coal mine for authoritarian government.
Hard not to cringe a little when you see a pic like this.


Fiscal irresponsibility has real consequences.
Do you honestly believe MAiD would be a thing if Canada were on sound money?
Anything with a security council cannot credibly claim to be decentralized.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #497


Bitcoin Tech Talk #497
Interesting Stuff
The reality of the left is that most of their activists/supporters are paid in one way or another by fiat money printing, so the right has no chance from within the system.
The only way out is through.
If you're getting deceived, it's worth finding out what flaw the liars are exploiting.
So much of maturity is just becoming comfortable with uncertainty.
Fear is the easiest emotion to stoke, and boy are we getting a lot of that in Bitcoin these days.
Another reason that holding is hard.
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There's a particular type of delusion where you think that the people you like all live up to their ideals and the people that you don't like only respond to incentives.