Hey, it’s my first blog post in like 20 years. I feel like I have stuff to say. https://medium.com/@mike.brock/the-politics-of-virtue-versus-the-politics-of-consequence-dfbe6932ab83

It really is time to end the app store monopolies.

My daughter Autumn, has released a studio recorded version of her original song, Out of Line. Give it a listen!

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If you are only able to view Bitcoin’s potential for success vis-a-vis the US Dollar, you’re really missing out on most of what bitcoin’s short-to-medium term potential actually is. Hate me if you want, but I think hyperbitcoinization is currently not in the cards. Never say never. But if that’s what you expect to happen in the coming months and years, I think you’re just completely wrong about that. At the same time, Bitcoin is going to keep growing and filling in gaps all around the world, where financial access is far more adversarial. It’s also going to revolutionize the reach of global payments, secure identities, and I believe things like Lightning are going to become ways to accept global payments from anywhere in the world for services, tips, and things like zaps! Many people will convert their payments back into local fiat. Some will save in bitcoin. That’s okay! Measuring Bitcoin’s success or failure in absolute terms just causes serious distraction from what the near-term opportunities are.

Just because there's some guy claiming the US government is hiding alien spaceships, doesn't mean a conspiracy theory has been proven true. I really hate to break it to you. If you accept this at face value, this is a serious sign of an undisciplined mind, to say the least. Now you say, what if it *is* true? How do you know it's not? All I'll say is, if you think the negative has to be proven against any claim, or you're going to be inclined to believe it, you might be a gullible fool.

I'm really enjoying the apoplexy by some people who seem to think that enforcing securities laws against illegal securities is some mind-blowing, unprecedented state overreach. If you're one of them, just know this: normal people think you're nuts. They don't care about your fantasies of a post-state world where all of your fairs exist in an extra-legal, extra-jurisdictional fantasy world. You're living a lie!

If you’re defending Binance selling fake securities so corrupt venture capitalists could and can offramp their stupid fake securities tokens on retail investors, because of some knee-jerk anti-government/anti-regulation/market-maximalist nonsense, well … I question whether you’re a serious person.