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One of Emma Stone's favorite movies is Forman's Firemen's Ball... wow. I've never been a fan of Hollywood actresses, but Emily is a different story :)

1080p YouTube quality... more epic than Nolan can ever be...

Still thinking what was the role of government agencies in this... If you wanted to neutralize Bitcoin, would you ban it or just convince Bitcoiners that using it betrays it? Turn p2p cash into digital gold you never spend, make HODLing revolutionary, let the community police itself. You wouldn't need to compromise code—just amplify voices during the block size wars, fund some conferences, let tribalism finish it. Now the most dangerous financial tech ever sits in Coinbase accounts, perfectly surveilled, while everyone thinks they won. Coincidence? View quoted note →

This is what Bitcoin culture has become. Not tools for economic freedom. Not permissionless markets. Just gatekeeping disguised as inevitability. The promise was financial sovereignty for everyone. The reality is celebrating pricing people out. Measuring success by exclusion. "Be your own bank" became "fuck you, got mine" They don't want more people to have economic freedom. They want the right people to have it—at the right price, with the right politics. This is authoritarian thinking wrapped in libertarian aesthetics. Deciding who "deserves" access based on ideological purity. Bitcoin culture doesn't want revolution. It wants a new aristocracy where they're the aristocrats. And they call this freedom.

Sometimes I think about moving to Shenzhen to build my own hardware wallet... I haven't found the perfect one for me yet. View quoted note →