*The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff* View quoted note →

*No empire remains immune to seismic technological shifts* View quoted note →

*Currency is the financial boundary of the empire* View quoted note →

*if you want to call bitcoin empirical evidence, you’d need an observable that changes when you artificially impose a time lattice* View quoted note →

*I think the silver lining is most people think through a consensus filter, they have no principles or understanding beyond their own survival, so run with the herd. Bitcoiners being multi-disciplinary are an intransigent herd, they don't break off into other herds even if those other herds are bigger. Their numbers are therefore a one-way-ratchet, and the size of that herd compounds on itself... eventually attracting people on scale alone.*

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Bitcoin is complex; people are busy \ stacker news ~mostly_harmless

I tend to feel there are three kinds of bitcoiners -- and each of them occupies a "niche of a niche." i. the technically-minded ii. the economicall...