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Unfortunately some people do think differently of you based on your accent, subconsciously or consciously

I'm no more a fan of billionaires than the next guy, but is this argument not extremely hypocritical: “Billionaire Jeff Bezos could personally pay for enough vaccines for the whole…

The post i was responding to made the point - "do we want to attach extremely important things to a system that is by design irreversible? Human life is both extremely important, a…

Good points, and in response I would say that not everything needs to happen directly on chain. Just as an example there can be some company that develops an interface between the …

by that logic we would never drive cars, ride airplanes, go to space, etc

Bitcoin is still only 1/10 the market cap of gold, with the argument by Bitcoiners being that the asset is a 10-100x improvement over gold.

Yeah, Bitcoin is great, I agree :) It seems pretty natural to me that someone who believes in Bitcoin would also purchase it.

Tether is definitely very sketchy in their practices, but there is simply no good evidence that Tether issuance inflates the prices of BTC. Here is a study arguing the opposite - h…

Study finding no correlation between stablecoin issuance and BTC price - https://voxeu.org/article/stable-coins-dont-inflate-crypto-m...

https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1344361051048042497

https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1357757736394444800

Some of my favorite "Intro to Bitcoin" pieces - "Bitcoin For The Open Minded Skeptic" - https://www.paradigm.xyz/Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic... "Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholde…

Watch this video before you jump to any conclusions - https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1357757736394444800

Some of my favorite "Intro to Bitcoin" pieces - "Bitcoin For The Open Minded Skeptic" - https://www.paradigm.xyz/Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic... "Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholde…

> Assets in registered wallets will simply not be relayed to unregistered wallets. I find this hard to believe. I think it's more likely that the gov't would treat crypto like fiat…

Bitcoin doesn't really work as a currency (at least without some layer 2 solution). It's most valuable currently as a store of value / hedge against institutions.

The article kind of lost me at times, but on the high level topic of (US) government regulation as an existential threat to crypto: - The US government is very slow moving, and cry…