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It don’t make no sense that common sense don’t make no sense no more. [email protected]

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Recent Notes

Scott Wolfe · 59w
Just listened to Pete Rizzo’s interview with Michael Terpin: https://x.com/supplyshockbw/status/1953226635081036132?s=46&t=wq0GoOCdXxA5DblxlsJJng While it was excellent overall, there was one thing...
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I really like @Rizzo for these discussions and I’m grateful he continues to have them. This idea, though that bitcoin is “old tech” and crypto represents “innovation” is just wrongheaded though in my mind. It reminds me of a poster. I saw it one time of all the crazy ideas people had for electricity when it first became available. People thought that shooting it directly into your head would make you smarter or shooting it directly into your muscles would make you stronger. There are 1000 Nazi ideas for things that you could do with electricity. In the end, electricity prove to be useful for just one thing, producing or storing energy in one place and using it in another.

This is essentially the case with Blockchain as well. There are a million crazy ideas for things that it “might” do but ultimately, it’s only purpose is to store value and transmit it from one time and place to be used in another time or place.

Making our money “smarter” so that it can do things without our input doesn’t give us more control over our money. It gives our money more control over us. That’s the opposite of the freedom that Satoshi imagined we would gain by removing trusted third parties.

That’s no innovation. That’s the same old system that created the need for bitcoin in the first place.

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Bryon D Bothun · 59w
Whoops. Nutsy, not Nazi. 🥴
Jeff Swann · 108w
He's not wrong. Really, the whole process & almost everyone involved sucks, but the machine that was wearing Biden's dead carcus & shifted overnight into Kamala's empty one is a special kind of evil. ...
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I think its kinda crazy that some people think this is a problem. We SHOULD be voting for platforms not personalities. We don't want Kings or Queens. We want to agree on a set of policy objectives. On some level I don't even care if our "leader" agrees with them. I just want someone who can get them done. Honestly, how is this wrong? The alternative is you get someone who says one thing and does another.

I cant stand Kamala. She was my absolute least favorite candidate in 2020. But if she vows to advance the broad policy objectives the party has agreed on, then I'm all in.
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Jeff Swann · 108w
She is a pharma & military industrial puppet. I don't want anything to get done. I want a govt (if we have to have one) were no one has any power to do anything, & there is disagreement over everything, & perpetual deadlock so that people can live their damn lives. The alternative is being monetari...
Adam Snyder · 108w
What happens when you get a platform/party that says one thing then does another? Politics is a game of lies in pursuit of power, whether it's individual candidates or parties, it's all lies for power.