I was delighted to watch this battle of giants in person at the Plan B conference in El Salvador and witness in real time intellectual spears magically get transformed into boomerangs by these thought-smiths as they debated which one is better money—gold or bitcoin.
The match started with Peter Schiff trying to do a dirty cheat by throwing a curveball at @Saifedean Ammous by saying he would like to debate Tether Gold instead of gold. Saifedean pretended that simply didn’t happen and the debate continued with the pre-agreed conditions being honored, at least for a while.
Opinions were laid out. Saif was loved and Schiff loved not to be loved by the bitcoin-loving orange-glowy-eyed crowd. I think he really enjoys being the bad boy of bitcoin. A moment of respect to Schiff though for carrying the role of the villain with such fortitude and gusto for all these years and providing us with much entertainment. We’re loving it and I suspect the climax will very soon turn into an anti-climax when he stops resisting that big, juicy orange pill and swallows it whole.
I detour and digress, I know.
Back to the game.
Towards the middle, Schiff remembered his beloved dirty curveball and brought it back into the match, asking Saif again to discuss Tether Gold instead of good ol’ fashioned clinky gold. And that’s when the juice got even juicier!
It got so juicy that Juan Sartori, who had just two hours prior given a keynote speech on Tether Gold, forgot that he was team Schiff and just lost himself in the thrill of the game, his head going from left to right to left with a huge smile on his face, said smile being interrupted frequently by laughter. Was he thinking, “This is just as good as football”?
He was in my line of vision, seated in the VIP section, between myself in the pleb section and Saif on stage, and I expected him to jump up, fists in the air, and scream, “GOOOOOOAL!” any second but he probably didn’t know which winner to yell for with so many goals coming from both sides, so he didn’t!
That was a fantastic match to watch gentlemen. Thank you!
Now I simply cannot WAIT for the next round between these two as I’m sure it will be bitcoin vs Tether Gold and, wow, that’ll be even more titillating than this one!!
And I hope this takes place before crazy alchemists crack the secret of making gold in their secret old candle-lit caves paving the way for our god-candles to rise to the moon (new point for your next debate Saif. You’re welcome.) ;)
Link to the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiQBMFuRodE
The match started with Peter Schiff trying to do a dirty cheat by throwing a curveball at @Saifedean Ammous by saying he would like to debate Tether Gold instead of gold. Saifedean pretended that simply didn’t happen and the debate continued with the pre-agreed conditions being honored, at least for a while.
Opinions were laid out. Saif was loved and Schiff loved not to be loved by the bitcoin-loving orange-glowy-eyed crowd. I think he really enjoys being the bad boy of bitcoin. A moment of respect to Schiff though for carrying the role of the villain with such fortitude and gusto for all these years and providing us with much entertainment. We’re loving it and I suspect the climax will very soon turn into an anti-climax when he stops resisting that big, juicy orange pill and swallows it whole.
I detour and digress, I know.
Back to the game.
Towards the middle, Schiff remembered his beloved dirty curveball and brought it back into the match, asking Saif again to discuss Tether Gold instead of good ol’ fashioned clinky gold. And that’s when the juice got even juicier!
It got so juicy that Juan Sartori, who had just two hours prior given a keynote speech on Tether Gold, forgot that he was team Schiff and just lost himself in the thrill of the game, his head going from left to right to left with a huge smile on his face, said smile being interrupted frequently by laughter. Was he thinking, “This is just as good as football”?
He was in my line of vision, seated in the VIP section, between myself in the pleb section and Saif on stage, and I expected him to jump up, fists in the air, and scream, “GOOOOOOAL!” any second but he probably didn’t know which winner to yell for with so many goals coming from both sides, so he didn’t!
That was a fantastic match to watch gentlemen. Thank you!
Now I simply cannot WAIT for the next round between these two as I’m sure it will be bitcoin vs Tether Gold and, wow, that’ll be even more titillating than this one!!
And I hope this takes place before crazy alchemists crack the secret of making gold in their secret old candle-lit caves paving the way for our god-candles to rise to the moon (new point for your next debate Saif. You’re welcome.) ;)
Link to the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiQBMFuRodE
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