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66 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2h \ on: Save Our Wallets – Protect Your Right to Transact Freely Politics_And_Law
It shouldn't matter whether a wallet is custodial or not
- You'll have trust smuggling scammers like Ark and other fake L2's swindle people/courts into believing they are non-custodial
- The argument for Stablecoins is free-banking, but free-banking works better without shitcoins and picking winners/losers by regulation
- This seems to be a Spiral backed campaign and they're just one red flag after the other
Like, what exactly are they messing up in the data?
It's editorialized slop
deportation agenda—while doing nothing for workers
Deportations drive up wages
redistributes income from some of the poorest households to the richest
Data isn't even there, just links to another bullshit article about the corporate tax rate being lowered (does not include an increase anywhere else and ultimately increases monetary velocity = higher stonks = higher 401k's and being able to actually pay the higher wages from deportation)
I swear this territory would post nothing if not for deep state rags like WSJ/ET/EPI/FT
It's all the same picture, being turned off by Trump and not understanding how things work is not something you reason your way into. So you can't reason them out of it. I'm not making a judgement on whether they're good or bad people, I see them as victims. It's a literal psywar out there.
The catalyzing event to snap people out of it is deeply personal, it's not a single topic, and ultimately some multiple of time.
From a game theoretical perspective, it's advantageous for MAGA to turn off non-MAGA from Bitcoin for as long as possible. You want your allies to gain power and influence, not your enemies.
That said, it's unnecessary...
To push back on MAGA affinity at a retail level like this is a dead end because the anti-MAGA that falls for it would be viewing it from an identity and feels first framework, not a hard-money problem-solving framework, and therefore end up in scamcoins regardless of MAGA.
If an anti-MAGA hero were to emerge, and become vocally pro-Bitcoin, they wouldn't convert identity-first people not interested in Bitcoin's merits. Those people would simply slay that hero for stepping outside the groupthink.
Bitcoin-first yet anti-MAGA people will need a different angle to combat the MAGA with Bitcoin, one that isn't based on reason because you can't reason people out of a place they didn't reason themselves into. I don't know what that is or could look like, but my bias is that they're so naive that they'll only use Bitcoin once they've exhausted their tantrums and have little choice, inevitably bending-the-knee to "Bitcoin acceptance" in a poetic reckoning of "social justice".
There's a conservative case for bitcoin
Bitcoin is just as ick to conservatives as it is to progressives, if conservatives in the modern sense were effective Bitcoin wouldn't be necessary.
You're making a lot of assumptions
I'm highlighting evidence supporting a thesis, what I want to understand is given the preponderance of that evidence how you square the circle. You don't need to agree with the conclusion.
ways progressives are bad
You were served a lay-up to explain why Bitcoin's global nature make its it anti-nationalist and or that the adoption of solutions regardless of their provenance is emblematic of progressive values.
Your negative response to that set-up projects progressive self-loathing.
I'm progressive and I care about solving problems and Bitcoin doesn't give me the ick
You wouldn't need to write a book if you weren't an outlier
wha they'd be coping about
"Shedding it's anti-government slant" is the cope, Bitcoin being a product of the national security state means it was never anti-government. The conference being a MAGA rally is soft-disclosure / limited hangout of this.
So perhaps it's time to reexamine your priors.
Bringing weak shit like this to an AMA after the excellent set up I gave you? pathetic.
It has been argued that Bitcoin is a creation of the National Security state to save US Sovereignty in a world where its institutions have been captured by Globalist "progressives" and the knock-on effects of that around spending, reserve currency status, and trade.
Bitcoin's game theory has also come to exemplify Thielian (Palantir) doctrine of using technology to reshape society through bypass of traditional political "democratic" processes, the same processes that have been weaponized the communist-left (as articulated by McCarthy, Skousen, Hoover, Welch etc)
Further, Bitcoin's premise is one based on property rights, rights which are in-congruent with communist ideology.
These points have never been more self-evident than they are today, so much so that cope is going mainstream:
From the description of your book, you seem quite grounded in how Bitcoin fixes real world problems that "progressives" like to virtue signal about. The problem however is that "progressives" generally care more about who/how problems get solved rather than actually solving them, and this is why Bitcoin gives them the ick.
Is your strategy to re-wire progressives into putting solutions over ideology? or do you have alternative narrative to portray Bitcoin as a tool against nationalist-capitalists?
I wonder what are lolbertarians and communists alike going to write about when they inevitably realize that Bitcoin was created by and for the preservation of the national security state, not to destroy it?
Leftists (globalists) who poisoned the well for most of the last century are all of a sudden surprised that the disruptive thing aligns right (nationalist)?
Libertarians that complained about losses in property rights and shackling of the invisible hand are now all of a sudden clutching their pearls because those same issues they complained about were a threat to national sovereignty and so nations are fighting back (and winning)?
That's what larp ancaps don't seem to get, nationalism is the manifestation of the coalition instinct in a globally anarchic system... the state is
comparing this link with ark
They're the same premise, that Lightning is insufficient
But, Lightning's limitations are inherited properties of Bitcoin, and therefore cannot be "solved" without trust
Ark uses false narratives to position itself as having solved the limitations of lightning when really it's just trust smuggling
They invented terms like pre-confirmed transactions and VTXOs to make it sound like a technical solution. They lie about scaling to poors that can't afford chain security, online-ess etc.
OP here is just retarded, but Ark is malicious as evidenced by their deceptive marketing. That's the only distinction.
People that don't understand the game theory will fall behind, unavoidable natural selection.
Capital is moving from the slow to the fast.
There was no outrage at the deep state pumping their real estate, NGO contracts, and stonk bags with Cantillon impunity for decades. The perl clutchers are without standing.
If Satoshi is still out there, I hope he's pissed
They're at Fort Meade right now and the ones running the whole psyop that has you distracted
Vanity projects are everywhere in all things, so I attribute that to the lowest effort ones. It's the high effort ones like Ark siphoning funding and attention that are really malicious.
There is a real (unsolvable) problem that enables them all to grab attention, supply limits Bitcoins user scale, and trust is therefore unavoidable for the overwhelming majority.
That's the real signal, because when people want the impossible they'll entertain anything or anyone and virtue signal it out even further.
Can someone explain to me all the mental gymnastics people invest into this trust smuggling nonsense?
None of these fake L2 trust minimized galaxy brained proposals actually achieve anything, so is it just the vanity of "authoring" something?
Write a children's book then ffs if you need to be an author, it takes the same intellectual fire-power as "trust minimizing"
The companies furthest in quantum already have full access to most people's accounts via password managers, data storage, soft keyboards, and likely backdoored management functionality in operating systems
Just imagine how much coin, for example Google, could sweep with all this access + AI to leverage it... Not to mention things like email and 2FA insights
Any time I see quantum fear I can't help but think it's misdirection