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calle · 6d
i don’t think we only win when everything else blows up. bitcoin will be here, but it can take another couple decades. anything can happen in the mean time.
allen profile picture
then you are more optimistic than me on the timeline. I think we have the low-hanging fruit of people who will be interested for either technical or ideological reasons. but for the vast swathes of normies, fiat is always going to work better. until they are made to care about either inflation, privacy, or censorship resistance, you literally can’t build anything superior, as judged by criteria they care about.

I don’t mean this to be too doomery. I still think we win in the end and of course all this stuff ought to be built to facilitate victory. I’m just trying to be realistic about *how* we win.
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keeth · 6d
It’s the middle part that’s… tricky.
Bitcoin Bazar · 6d
Most people will never care about the issues bitcoiners are aware of and that bitcoin fixes. It's as often a "pareto principle issue" that will lead about 20% of people waking up and using bitcoin. The other 80% remaining will follow by mimicry because they'll have to in order to not be left behind...
calle · 6d
i don’t think we only win when everything else blows up. bitcoin will be here, but it can take another couple decades. anything can happen in the mean time.
HODL · 2w
I’m only 6’3 so truly an imposter in the giraffe community
47 · 2w
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allen profile picture
TIL it’s an open problem whether there exists a polynomial bijection from Q to QxQ and therefore apparently a very very difficult question.

who knew?
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awayslice · 3w
nostr needs a translate button.
Sean · 3w
Big brain question. My smooth brain can’t comprehend
Micah541 · 3w
Like a space-filling polynomial on the rationals?
allen profile picture
I once wasted an entire hour of pitching Axiom listening to some public pension plan schlub tell me how farcaster is the future and that it’s very existence proves crypto is a better stack to build apps on that route around bitcoin entirely. I hope the plan’s beneficiaries thank him for his service.
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jaquesbody · 3w
Cos all it ever was was GM, "im emotional", picture of a sunrise, "buy my shitcoin". I liked sone mini-apps tbh.
calle · 3w
it basically is one already!
giacomozucco · 3w
NO, and only degenerates would even consider the question!
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allen profile picture
heine borel and anything relying on compactness fails.

weirdest/coolest result is IVT fails too, which is bizarre because on R continuity is strictly stronger than IVP, but in dense-but-not-complete R that flips.
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allen · 3w
speaking of which, nostr:nprofile1qqsw79gu0guq7s98t473fyavx3akwaafmx6l5z4rehd50lrcl2mf4zcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxvun9v4cxcctrv5hxumq4l8tea, do you even believe the reals exist?
allen profile picture
they don’t tell you that virtually every concept surrounding continuity works on functions from Q to Q.

they don’t tell you this because they want you to be ignorant and afraid.
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