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Climate activist dinner tonight; wife said limit the bitcoin. What to do?
1668 sats \ 12 comments \ @Scoresby 4h bitcoin
Last year, I was faced with a similar quandary (#413085) -- except in that instance, I was asked not to speak about bitcoin at all. This time, she's open to me broaching the orange subject.
(I'm making homemade pizzas: sausage, sage, and spicy honey / white sauce, gruyere, lemon, and arugula / chorizo, scamorza, diced tomato / ricotta, summer squash, and mint / vanilla ice cream sundaes with peanuts and hot fudge)
My question is how best to bring up Bitcoin:
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN YOU'RE DEBANKED?9.1%
LOAD BALANCING AND GRID STABILIZATION45.5%
WHAT HAPPENED IN 1971?45.5%
LASER EYES LIOTTA COMES TO TOWN0.0%
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382 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 3h
You could attack Trump and the crypto grifters and then after you rant about that, you say, "Bitcoin is the only real innovation."
Psychologically, they latch onto you as an ally when you start attacking Trump and crypto. But then you surprise them with your positive view of Bitcoin. It will make them wonder how you could hold these two views together.
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1h
I think this is the right approach. Once people like you, they're willing to listen, so throw some red meat to those lions.
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143 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 3h
“ Have you also noticed that money is no longer worth what it used to be?”
As climate activists, you can cite the fact that Bitcoin mining helps the environment by consuming energy that would otherwise be wasted, contrary to what critics say.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 2h
Dang, you're quite the chef!
Money in historical context - money printing in the past (even Gengis Khan in China!), money printing throughout history, how it always happens, and it's happening now. How SCARICITY is the one thing that freely chosen money has always had.
Anyway...historical references work well for me. Now sure about others...
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21m
Seriously, with that yummy sounding food, he could make an Orange Pilling Lesson a prerequisite to getting served food
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1h
All of the above. Better to ask forgiveness than permission.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 1h
where's the "Divorce" option...?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Luxas 1h
This. If she's not on board, not worth the pain when she tries to take more than half after it creates generational wealth. Then she'll claim she was the one that pushed him into buying the bitcoin in the first place lmao.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 7m
I wouldn't, specially if he is a climate activist. He will make the point on how bad bitcoin is for the climate due to it's energy consumption and you will end up having a nasty debate that you will not win because for a climate activist any energy consumption above zero is sacrilege, and you will make everyone uncomfortable for the rest of the night. Don't do it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @025738dda8 1h
What about limiting fiat and not talk about it anymore? It seems to be much worse when it comes to the climate...
https://cointelegraph.com/news/banking-uses-56-times-more-energy-than-bitcoin-valuechain-report
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125499
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @satgoob 2h
Ask whether we should all just move back into caves ffs
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satgoob 2h
Like bitcoin is a need, electricity is a need, data centers are need. Unless you want to go preindustrial, then figure out a solution (hint: renewables and battery storage are improving rapidly, and I expect they will be virtually all our power in 50 years with gas as backup) rather than trying to hamper technological progress. Human ingenuity is a powerful thing, we can solve stuff
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