@BitMEXResearch A car is not a superior form of transport to a horse simply because the market deemed it so. It’s because of the way a car is designed and built.
You most likely can't build your own home. Neither can you grow your own food or speak your mind unless you are fully compliant with the latest dogma. You can't dance nor can you woe, but you know how to do human window shopping on Tinder. Most likely you don't know how to dress well enough to flatter yourself. You can't speak well enough to earn the admiration of your peers (because school doesn't believe in norms).
You can't make money unless it is by usury, nor can you save it: inflation and fiscal easing will eat it up. You don't know what you want because your dreams and desires have been muddled by advertising and competition. If you have children chances are that they don't even know if they are boys or girls.
All your life you have been lied to: "You can be anything you want." "It is never too late." You are rootless and most likely uprooting others. Not like the farmers fleeing the dustbowl: you are the dust. Or will soon be.
"Who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday's splendid future?"
The time for wrath is long overdue.
@OrangePilledca@btcjvs@AtlasPulse 15 years on, many OGs will be late 30’s - late 40’s or older. Time to take some profits and enjoy the fruits of their hodling.
An open letter to @BillGates
Dear Bill
It is a free world, so I celebrate the fact you have the freedom to express your opinion "Bitcoin is useless".
Equally, as a person of influence, you have the duty of care to make sure that your opinion is an informed one.
Your comment "Bitcoin is useless" demonstrates that either
a. You are uninformed, or
b. You do not care for vast swathes of human life.
Considering your well documented philanthropic efforts, I will assume it is the former, not the latter.
So as someone who has spent a little more time than you researching the uses of Bitcoin, let me lay it out to you unambiguously.
When you say "Bitcoin is useless", you are saying that:
1. Fast tracking the delivery of renewable energy to millions of Ethiopians is useless
https://t.co/gb8KDhsCxX
2. Getting aid to 1000s of war refugees is useless https://t.co/NOScbpkq9v
3 Developing energy independence for Bhutan is useless https://t.co/fKBkfELb3I
4. Saving National Parks in Africa from closure is useless https://t.co/455ChX6MZn
5. Helping Afghanastani women avoid State-level financial discrimination is useless https://t.co/GsClHWJUXf
6. Establishing the economic sovereignty of 14 African nations still experiencing French financial colonization is useless
https://t.co/s18NsVIiAr
7. The idea of creating an alternative to a monetary system which can and does elongate wars, increase wealth gaps, bail out bankers but fail to protect employees and small businesses is useless https://t.co/T6D7yoHx37
8. The potential to provide banking to up to 2 Billion unbanked is useless https://t.co/fKBkfELb3I
https://t.co/T4mjBZ8WGW
9. Providing a financial system that is harder to use for money laundering than fiat currency is useless https://t.co/CLghbaZNJD
10. Removing the risk of financial reprisal for running humanitarian campaigns in autocratic nations where 5.7Billion people live is useless https://t.co/2KM9kuBsFX
11. Providing up to 250 Million people in countries experiencing hyperinflation a means to stop 50%+ erosion of their family savings per year is useless https://t.co/7Yu7IpTqeL
12. Allowing people in developing nations to receive remittance payments from family without delays and without heavy fees is useless https://t.co/NWTeMOMsd6
13. Having a secure, permissionless, decentralized, 24/7 store of value with fixed monetary supply is useless https://t.co/J75wOAYupq
14. The accomplishment of becoming the world's most sustainably powered industry is useless https://t.co/llglfd4FMw
15. Accelerating the renewable transition by making renewable generation more profitable is useless https://t.co/4SCHxTNpr2
16. Reducing more emissions from landfills than the largest DAC project in the world ever achieved is useless https://t.co/5IysyKcugO
17. Developing an monetary financial system with significantly lower emissions and emissions intensity than the banking system is useless https://t.co/RIiW2jxDTp
https://t.co/IGf5oq5dkH
18. Helping bring energy abundance to these 1800 African villagers have no value https://t.co/bgOaasQMKe
As I'm sure you'll agree, these uses are not only far from useless, but coincide with the very environmental and humanitarian causes that you have set up a foundation to help!
While have read many books, it is clear however from your comments that a book on Bitcoin has not yet been one of them. Can I suggest you take steps to remedy this if you're planning on saying more about Bitcoin?
As it stands, you are in your ignorance belittling a technology that is helping vast numbers of people already - often on matters of life or death, human dignity and basic human freedoms - and many of whom are those in the African continent that have publicly stated that you care greatly about.
Please do better in your research, and be more evidence-based in your comments next time Bill.
Sincerely
Daniel Batten
Climatetech Investor and Bitcoin analyst
My name is Roman Storm, and I am one of the founders of Tornado Cash, a non-custodial privacy protocol.
I am being prosecuted for writing open-source code that enables private crypto transactions in a completely non-custodial manner. This prosecution represents a terrifying criminalization of privacy.
The charges against me threaten to criminalize software development itself. If successful, the implications could extend far beyond the crypto industry, impacting every software developer. I face up to 45 years in prison on charges including operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and sanctions evasion.
This case has already had a chilling effect on developers working on software tools. Recently, a developer filed a lawsuit against the DOJ, seeking relief because my case has made them fearful of releasing new software.
https://t.co/kkhXrxJVnI
Additionally, there is significant confusion around the 1960 charge (operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business), as different government agencies have conflicting interpretations of the law.
https://t.co/BRKR0pWTaH
“This prosecution threatens to criminalize software development itself,” said Keri Axel of Waymaker LLP, my legal counsel.
American entrepreneur and politician @VivekGRamaswamy commented, “You can’t go after the developers of code. What you actually need to do is go after individual bad actors who are breaking the laws that already exist.”
https://t.co/WTn1weyoZO
Multiple amicus briefs have been filed in support of my defense by the DeFi Education Fund (@fund_defi), Coin Center (@coincenter), and Blockchain Association (@BlockchainAssn):
https://t.co/467XKatDuP
https://t.co/68p4WcMIP9
https://t.co/kzdZ39Qvrr
The 5th Circuit Court has already ruled that Tornado Cash sanctions were unlawful:
https://t.co/Vp4FACqnn8
However, the DOJ has dismissed this ruling as irrelevant:
https://t.co/tna6p4Nvnr
My trial is set for April 14, 2025.
Joe Biden pardoned his whole family, Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci, but he did not pardon Julian Assange.
Will President Trump right this wrong? #PardonAssange