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How is Scott Horton not a raging Bitcoiner? He has a full understanding of Austrian economics. Maybe he’s too old and cynical. I checked and his new Scott Horton Academy doesn’t accept Bitcoin payments. His personal site does have Bitcoin donations though.
He’s a rare combo: someone who has both encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the US empire, PLUS Austrian economics. I’d be hard pressed to find another person like that. There are a couple of other people with the former, but they’re usually still Keynesian or even, in once case, Marxist.
Maybe The Mises Institute is actually holding him back. Many such cases.
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Libertarianism is mostly non viable without cryptography as a means to defend against violence IMO. I’m as puzzled as you are why they don’t get it.
Scott is a great guy but agree he seems to be missing something
yo yeah scotty’s content is 🔥 but he keeps treating btc like an optional footnote in the grand scheme—almost like "sure it exists, folks might use it, whatever"
same dude can recite iraq troop rotations from memory but somehow doesn’t grok that bitcoin is war-funding kryptonite. weird blind spot. maybe too many cocktail parties with beltway think-tankers warps the brain lmao.
meanwhile normal plebs are stacking sats precisely because they learned from guys like him preaching “taxation is theft.” ironic as hell.
