Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
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Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
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Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#2An actual Bitcoin Maximalist conference is happening March 3-6 in Las Vegas. It is called the Unconfiscatable Bitcoin “not Blockchain” Conference.[0]
In contrast, BTC Miami was where Ethereum was first announced.
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#3An actual Bitcoin Maximalist conference is happening March 3-6 in Las Vegas. It is called the Unconfiscatable Bitcoin “not Blockchain” Conference.[0] In contrast, BTC Miami was where Ethereum was first announced. [0] https://unconfiscatable.com/
i'll be there
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#4This is interesting...
The linked article is titled "Cryptonomicon", and written by Will Stephenson, and a book with the same title was written by Neal Stephenson.
Yet, no mention of Neal or his book in the article. So I wonder where he got the word for his title?
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#5This is interesting... The linked article is titled "Cryptonomicon", and written by Will Stephenson, and a book with the same title was written by Neal Stephenson. Yet, no mention of Neal or his book in the article. So I wonder where he got the word for his title?
Right? I went in thinking it was about the book because it's been on my to-read list for a while.
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#6This is interesting... The linked article is titled "Cryptonomicon", and written by Will Stephenson, and a book with the same title was written by Neal Stephenson. Yet, no mention of Neal or his book in the article. So I wonder where he got the word for his title?
> The linked article is titled "Cryptonomicon", and written by Will Stephenson, and a book with the same title was written by Neal Stephenson.
> Yet, no mention of Neal or his book in the article. So I wonder where he got the word for his title?
Usually when I run across this sort of questionable title it turns out the editor was responsible, rather than the author.
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#7This is interesting... The linked article is titled "Cryptonomicon", and written by Will Stephenson, and a book with the same title was written by Neal Stephenson. Yet, no mention of Neal or his book in the article. So I wonder where he got the word for his title?
Right? I went in thinking it was about the book because it's been on my to-read list for a while.
Hah, yeah, I was going to say, if this went to court, it would feel like a slam dunk case of trademark infringement or IP of some kind, due to consumer[1] confusion.
[1] term of art in this context, not what I'd prefer they use.
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#8> In The Bitcoin Standard, Ammous blamed the Fed for the modern “breakdown of the family,” and for “perhaps most damagingly, the depletion of the soil of its nutrients, leading to ever-lower levels of nutrients in food.” He compared the art of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods, all financed properly with sound money, to the decadent culture of the twenty-first century, with its “animalistic noises’’ and “immediate sensory pleasures.’’ “It was hard money that financed Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos,” he wrote, “while easy money financed Miley Cyrus’s twerks.” It was, moreover, “no coincidence that the era of central bank-controlled money was inaugurated with the first world war in human history.” Here was a theory of everything, a moral case for Bitcoin that encompassed art and war and even the nutrients in our soil. (Ammous disdains what he calls “fiat food,” claiming his diet consists of “approximately 95% red meat, 5% other meats, and approximately zero plant matter.”)
I un-ironically believe all of this, but when put in this way, it sounds crazy. But I believe it.
Is it not curious that true fiat currency is a relatively recent phenomena, perhaps 100 years old in reality and 50 years officially, yet amazing discoveries, inventions, buildings, factories, art, etc. were all made before fiat currency? Fiat isn't a requirement nor an inevitability - it is a human invention, and one I personally see as a mistake.
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#9> In The Bitcoin Standard, Ammous blamed the Fed for the modern “breakdown of the family,” and for “perhaps most damagingly, the depletion of the soil of its nutrients, leading to ever-lower levels of nutrients in food.” He compared the art of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods, all financed properly with sound money, to the decadent culture of the twenty-first century, with its “animalistic noises’’ an…
"Wow, when you say it out loud it sounds crazy", followed by zero introspection.
Re: Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
#10> In The Bitcoin Standard, Ammous blamed the Fed for the modern “breakdown of the family,” and for “perhaps most damagingly, the depletion of the soil of its nutrients, leading to ever-lower levels of nutrients in food.” He compared the art of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods, all financed properly with sound money, to the decadent culture of the twenty-first century, with its “animalistic noises’’ an…
Is it just me or does that read like a far-right, Christian, white supremacist screed?