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Erik Voorhees

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Toward peace, markets, and Bitcoin. Founder of https://t.co/vPo8SbPVWo | https://t.co/lvFaZubzOT

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Some day people will look back and be like 'wow you saved money in a currency that you knew would be debased forever? Why were you so dumb?'

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Alternatively, every Californian can use the permissionless protocols themselves to route around the diktats of every politician. VPN not even necessary.

This is why decentralization is so powerful.

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Heroes look like Elon Musk. They risk their own capital and that of those who voluntarily contributed it, in ambitious projects, without violence, toward grand human achievement.

Villains look like Elizabeth Warren. They steal other peoples' capital to force their opinions on those…

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All vendors should charge whatever they want.

What keeps costs from subsequently skyrocketing (indeed all vendors are greedy!) is not price controls (which lead to shortages instead), but competition... when prices become 'exorbitant,' similarly greedy competitors swoop in to…

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JP Morgan as authorized participant for the Bitcoin ETF is 👌

Looking forward to Dimon's next appearance on Bloomberg.

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Mountain Protocol is still asserting itself as 'permissionless' while also...

'Mountain Protocol products, including USDM, are governed under Terms and Conditions and are not available for US persons and other restricted countries/activities.'

Mountain Protocol | USDM pls stop this…

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Calling Jan 6th an 'insurrection' is nuts. I bet 90% of the participants thought they were on a fun unscheduled tour of the capitol building.

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Riva Devon Eriksen Emmett Shear Agree that Devon's tweet is condescending and could be more diplomatic, granted. Not sure it alleges anything about Emmett thinking in a binary way.

Devon's response is an articulate refutation of the hubris of central planning, and for this I celebrate it. It was passionate,…

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How is this man being selected as the CEO of OpenAI, however briefly, when he is still groping in the dark, struggling to understand even the most basic of concepts behind his own civilization?

Has it never occurred to him to wonder why hunter-gatherer societies don't have a…

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Great post from vitalik.eth, and the quoted segment below was banger.

Tokens -> Profit motive -> interest and attention -> progress. The cynics get confused because along with the progress comes a lot of noise, but this is what markets look like... perhaps the world has…

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Let's make 2024 a year of philosophical advancement.

Order now. Merry Christmas 🥂

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