In 2020 I became a CA tax refugee to Seattle. We had a long history with Seattle during it's glory days of the 00s & 10s with family in town and a short stint living in the burbs before grad school. Seattle had started to get a gradually more corporate and seedy in the last decade so I guess there were signs, but I.dont think anyone could have predicted the sheer magnitude of the COVID/BLM cliff. At that time, Washington was still a reasonably low tax state with a decent 2nd amendment culture and jurisprudence. I've never had a rug pulled out from me quite like the past 6 years.
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Great monetary analysis, but geopolitically Europe is suicidal and you sound desperate. Not a Russian bot.
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Can you set up a wallet? Would love to stream sats.
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Humans evolved to trust what they see with their own eyes, or what a trusted person told them (with qualifications unique to that person). It strikes me as a positive thing at least psychologically that people will have to stop trusting media, non-local govt, large bureaucracies. The problem is that there is economy of scale to widespread trade which benefits from large scale standards and measures. We will need sources of economic truth that are immune to AI or we will experience a major reduction in living atandards. In large part, commodity money evolved to allow trading between people outside one's web of trust, commerce within the web is managed on a mental ledger. Something like Bitcoin is essentially a necessary condition for an AI world.
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Lol. I had an acquaintance who bought some beachfront property and then loudly told everyone who would listen that global warming and rising seas were a crisis that "we" had to fix. Enjoy you home in the Baltics. The tribute payment is 30 years late though.
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Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law growth trend, the mathematical inevitability of money printing resumption, g...
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Classic conflation of "reserve currency" & "reserve asset." The problem is that the reserve asset (US federal govt debt) is an interest-bearing instrument. Once you accept that, Triffen's dilemma is unavoidable because future liabilities are not balanced by current assets.