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[Dan @robustus]

To reiterate - because I have a feeling it may come up down the road - it's not bitcoiners' fault that governments over-spent and killed their currencies.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Gen X is the last stand between America and communism.

[Dan @robustus]

@profplum99 @nic_carter After your disgraceful performance on the Grant Williams pod with Nic a few years ago, you should probably just quit commenting on Bitcoin....you continue to do it poorly and with tremendous unearned confidence and borderline Peter Zeihan levels of arrogance.

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

How has global poverty changed in our lifetimes?

No matter what poverty line you choose, the share below it has declined globally.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

this is gold's quantum FUD but it's way worse because you can't software update gold.

[Dan @robustus]

@TrustlessState Not all.

[Dev @zkDragon]

I’m very thankful for the foresight of the industry in developing certificate transparency.

You don’t have to panic over “have I been MITM’d” the next few days, or from the last few years, thanks to this making attacks detectable

[Dan @robustus]

@Mademantrading @BuildTrev @DonAlt If you're reading my tweets here as pro-Trump, you're a moron, as your style of engagement telegraphs anyway.

Blocking you now to keep the avg IQ in my mentions up.

[Dan @robustus]

Pretty darn unlikely. Full removal from office impeachment requires both a simple majority house vote (which would happen, and has happened before) but also a two-thirds majority senate vote (the hard part). Senate Rs have shown no willingness to go against him, and even with a solid dem victory, you'd still need a lot of Rs to cross the aisle.

[Dan @robustus]

@BuildTrev @DonAlt Congress hasn't voted to fund the war. It's being funded through the previously authorized overall military budget. Total cost so far is under $50B; tiny relative to the overall military budget...Plenty of room in the budget for the commander in chief to play with indefinitely.

[Dan @robustus]

@BullGrylls2 @DonAlt Trump will find BS legally-dubious loopholes for everything until it ends up at the Supreme Court. Where his arguments will get struck down, and then he'll find a new angle. Eg, the tariffs.

[Dan @robustus]

I think we learned a lot of stupid lessons from the blocksize wars. Like UASF, plebs mattering more than economic nodes, miners simply doing the bidding of node operators, hardforks being unacceptable, etc. All of those are silly to view as absolutes, but I think a lot of ppl still have those opinions.

But this time around I think the corps win, and they are reasonable and want reasonable, practical outcomes. So if BlackRock, Coinbase, Saylor, and the 50 other most important corps in bitcoin want a blocksize increase, that's what's happening this time.

Last time I think the corps just didn't want the hassle in the end and it wasn't that big an immediate issue either way; was way more purely philosophical. So they ultimately just shrugged and said "fine whatever".....that's not gonna happen this time.

[Mandrik @Mandrik]

I could keep calling myself an ancap since, philosophically, I align with the ideals.

Reality doesn't give a shit about philosophy.

That's the harsh truth.

Most issues are essentially a trolley problem. You can claim the so-called "moral high ground" by not participating. Call yourself a better human because you didn't side with the lesser of two evils.

But understand that the world is filled with people who don't share your morals, aren't interested in making the world a better place, and want to take control of the power structure. They will use it against everyone who stands in their way.

These people will blame you for their shortcomings, steal from you, and even murder you and your family if they get the opportunity.

Philosophy: The state shouldn't exist.

Reality: The power structure exists. It has existed for all of human kind. It is not going away. Someone will take control of it.

What are you going to do about it?

[fejau @fejau_inc]

I don't know what to say on the valuation of frontier models or bottleneck trades, but a productivity boom from AI is absolutely happening its just a matter of how setup the business is for it and how skilled the users are which is likely causing a dispersion in teh data.

Internally at @Blockworks we've hit a genuinely absurd acceleration in productivity in recent months, it's insane.

We live in the future.

Anyone saying otherwise I'm just going to attribute it to a skill issue.

[Dan @robustus]

@zectrillionaire Lol I read about Pearl for like 15mins today and that was my first thought.

Coin is a few months old, with FDV of $4.5B. That's tough to swallow and I can't think of any instances where that worked out well over the subsequent few years.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible…

Elon once again showing the Billionaire class how it’s done. Bypassing the state completely, the fraud, the waste of tax dollars, the NGOs, and giving capital directly to American children. They will directly own a piece of American exceptionalism.

[Logan Dobson @LoganDobson]

unfathomable damage done to America. You could have abundant, cheap, emission-free electricity flowing to your home right now if it weren't for these people.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Any transfer of wealth that bypasses government is a good thing.

No ability for them to leverage it up as debt, spend it on nonsense or channel it off to their mates.

More billionaires will be happy to transfer their wealth if it goes straight to the kids.

[Werner Zagrebbi @zagrebbi]

France has the highest social spending of any country in the world