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Are the spooks vibing in Bitcoinlandia?
634 sats \ 5 comments \ @unschooled 21 Mar bitcoin
hypothetical: let's presume Trump and most world leaders don't honestly care about the success of Bitcoin (nor do we need them to). In Trump's case, his M.O. is in propping up the U.S. dollar like it's the weekend at berrnie's.
Let's also presume he's a shrewd in the doctrine of Sun Tzu which says to "know thine enemy."
Then given this, one might ask: to what extent does he and his brain trust know, pay attention to, and study what actually goes on, has been written about and is being discussed in the land of Bitcoin?
  • Are they reading Dergigi.com, listening to SLP, reading Darthcoin guides, watching BTC sessions?
  • do they have an opinion on opcodes?
  • Are they competing in meme Monday?
  • do they watch Stacker News Live?
  • Are they at all allured to the ideas in bitcoin?
I'm not talking about three letter agencies I mean the people close to Trump advising him on all this crypto policy.
If Bitcoin is actually a threat to the dollar, then wouldn't it be safe to assume they probably are/should be paying attention? Otherwise, one of them has to have fallen down the rabbit hole, after all this hype...
Or, do they just interact in echo-chambers online and never encounter any ideas that challenge their perspectives?
REVEAL YOURSELVES SPOOKS!
My personal thoughts are, yes, government, in some sense, are lurking.
But in what capacity, who can tell! Maybe, just maybe, some are here for the vibes 👀
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 21 Mar
I'm in a shitcoin Kakao group. No, outside of the maxis here, no one of them cares or knows about the bitcoin philosophy. Even the ones there who claim to be maxi are r/bitcoin maximalists: sell bitcoin to take profits, buy MSTR coz it's easier, over 9000 memes, inflation = money printing level of understanding of economics, etc.
The people advising trump are shitcoiners.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity most definitely applies here.
At the level of government, one of the few who best understood Bitcoin was Gensler. Yet, he was made the scapegoat for everything. I'm sure there are a few more like him, but not many amongst the most recent government shitcoin pump and Trump advisors.
Or... I'm all wrong and it's the biggest psyop of the last few years. Pump the shitcoins so hard that bitcoin sinks with the ship. Fred Krueger is a spook and it was all calculated.
My money is on the stupidity scenario though.
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126 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Mar
They can't read my guides. I put a special limit in robots.txt on my guides website to NOT be crawled by their stupid bots... I don't want my guides to be used by these AI bots. I want only REAL people to read them.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User agent token: GPTBot
Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
IMHO we should NEVER ever teach any politician or gov member about Bitcoin. Let them die in ignorance and darkness.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 22 Mar
The information is going to be consumed from somewhere. People are going to ask AIs about Bitcoin for the next 140 years.
Might as well get your thoughts encoded in popular foundational models. By blocking scraping you are simply removing discoverability of your content. And then there are things like deep research agents that will go out and find and surface things for humans to read. You could be blocking humans from reading in future too.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 21 Mar
their personas shud die, so that the men behind the personas can live on and actually help others. i see the purpose of teaching officials about bitcoin is only to help them quit their stupid job and teach their fellow order-followers how to do the same.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ninjagrandma65 21 Mar
Even better, remember when Elizabeth Warren was complaining that a bunch of retired intelligence and government officials were helping bitcoin and crypto, and she was all pissy about that?
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