Luke Gbedemah

Reporter @Tortoise

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@cplrc @tortoise Non-profit service for the world = public good ∴ provision by a democratically elected government funded by progressive taxation.

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@SullyK86454670 @jan1mal @johnestevens @JenniGreyhounds Your comment betrays a considerable ignorance about how national-level policy on climate needs to work, and about the role of international collaboration that conferences like Cop are supposed to promote.

[Basia Cummings @basialcummings]

Christopher Allen was just 26 when he was killed on the frontline.

But hours after his death, the story about who he was - and what he was really doing there - splintered.

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[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@youngvulgarian It's 'greedflation' - price setters add additional increases under cover of ambient inflation to boost their income, because they can - many listed rental prices have increased by more than stated 9.4% inflation, so it's not because owners are covering their rising costs!

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

Covid-19 scams are getting a bit lazy these days... Check your syntax. And 4.06. Really?

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@gerpwr @tortoise @anilkseth Tortoise have subscribing members who help us to fund our journalism. The charge is a subscription fee to Tortoise. We don't show adverts or take funding from other businesses to write stories.

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@gerpwr @tortoise @anilkseth The event is free to attend. Please check your DMs!

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

Here's a challenge for 1 hour: Come make some sense of consciousness with the @anilkseth and @tortoise. I am delighted to be editing this one... Bring your questions about the mystery at large, and your copy of the brilliant #BeingYou.

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@MasterYolo69 @chrismcguire0 @ben_mckenzie I can't see how these stories demonstrate BTC's effectiveness over fiat currencies and traditional economics in fragile states. There's no usage data, no comparative figures on crime or fraud... just testimony from people with vested interests.

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@chrismcguire0 @ben_mckenzie In terms of my previous statement, you're conflating the predictability of the value of BTC in dollar terms, with predictability of the actual value of a dollar, as an expression of utility in a market.

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@chrismcguire0 @ben_mckenzie The data isn't the point. If BTC was at 6 figs, more govs owned it and it was in ETFs... that wouldn't change the anti-administration and inherently zero-sum purpose. BTC only generates negative externalities now. Some people don't just want to see the line go up and to the right

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@Royalkeyafrica @chrismcguire0 @ben_mckenzie This discussion is better had in long form... the data is not convertible to fiat in a predictable manner. The supposed value of the data is based on the fiat losses incurred by another party: your gain is their loss i.e. zero sum.

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

Time for a "radical rethink"? @tortoise will be talking about our intolerable #drugspolicy in the UK, and asking @normanlamb, @wudzee0 and @NaomiSBS about legalisation. This evening. Come be heard: https://t.co/5Bs6sAdQPU

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@GeoffreyHuntley Some heroes don't wear capes.

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@rettlerb Interesting. Will read each. Thank you!

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@rettlerb Any case studies you could point me to?

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@tante Couldn't agree more: PMH > SFB. Present Measureable Harms over Supposed Future Benefits... Haven't checked if these acronyms mean something else *eek*

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

@ofcoursebtmaybe @smdiehl @davidgerard @GeoffreyHuntley Doesn't this only work if salary and other opex can be satisfied in crypto rather than fiat?

[Luke Gbedemah @LukeGbedemah]

A fraud? The future? Everything? Nothing? Looking forward to untangling #Web3 with people who've given this subject a solid 10,000 hours @smdiehl @davidgerard @GeoffreyHuntley nb: I'm Antman.

[Stephen Diehl @smdiehl]

On Wednesday the Avengers are assembling to take on sense making of web3. Come listen to @davidgerard, @GeoffreyHuntley, @LukeGbedemah and myself make sense of what this all means. If you want to join the stream use GUESTOFSTEPHEN as the code.

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