The drivechain argument that it will slay altcoins does not withstand scrutiny, imho. Here’s my response to @fiatjaf: https://twitter.com/craigwarmke/status/1680961751771148290?s=46&t=bXzGVdYR1fWYZfJWPefIgw

Over the last 1.5 months, I’ve been with other bpi fellows on our manuscript workshop in Seattle, on a panel at Princeton University’s DeCenter, and at the BPI summit in DC. I’m lucky to have spent so much time with bpi people recently!

How many seconds of my life have I worried about existential risk from AGI? zero seconds.

Coming up on two years old. I re-read this the other day and think it still stands up pretty well.

Atomic Theories

A Sound Finance Manifesto

A call-to-arms for bitcoin finance, where bitcoiners enjoy transparency and self-sovereignty over their assets.

I’m going to encourage my graduate students to download a lightning wallet so I can send them sats. They need to “feel” how smooth lightning is, whether they think bitcoin is good or not. Feel free to zap me some sats and I’ll forward every single sat on to them for educational purposes.

Biden was an enemy of privacy in the cryptography wars of the 1990s. While he was VP, his administration oversaw the unconstitutional attack of dozens of fully legal kinds of business through Operation Chokepoint. And now, his administration combines these past mistakes into a new one - a coordinated attack on businesses related to cryptographically-powered money. Bitcoin will outlast these businesses. And then it will outlast Biden.