The new "OpenAI is asking the government for a bailout" narrative is hilarious. This of course implies that OpenAI is not the government. Well, OpenAI is actually the government. https://controlplanecapital.com/p/public-facing-elites-using-myth-making

I wrote on article on whether Bitcoin is decentralized and secure or is allowed to look decentralized and secure. Feel free to debunk it.

Is Bitcoin decentralized & secure or is it allowed to look that way

Bitcoin is permissionless in code but permissioned in practice by choke-points that governments and large intermediaries either directly control or...

TL;DR Bitcoin is permissionless in code but permissioned in practice by choke-points that governments and large intermediaries either directly control or can cheaply coerce. It’s allowed to look decentralized/secure so long as it functions primarily as a supervised store of value and speculative asset, not a mass medium of exchange outside compliance rails. Bitcoin’s design is decentralized in protocol, but the real-world control surface has shifted into layers above consensus: pools, clouds, app stores, and custody perimeters. These are the quiet levers that steer usage without changing the code.