Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now.

With 2020 as our guide, it's safe to say that if X/Twitter were still a public company, anyone criticizing the Secret Service or talking about Biden's age in the last two weeks would have been banned for spreading "Russian disinformation." Man, it was bad back then.

If this was a google cloud outage, half the decentralised blockchains would be down

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“Microsoft is a global monoculture and is therefore subject to catastrophic collapse.” — me, 20 years ago: jurvetson.blogspot.com/2004/09/whithe… “The resiliency of critical computer networks might suffer if they migrate to a common architecture. Like a monoculture of corn, they can be more

Calling it now: >Trump wins. >Larry fink treasury secretary. >Blackrock creates Eigenlayer AVS to bundle a bunch of middle class homes into securities. LRT created. >We all start lev trading these LRTs. >Americans ask who holds title to their mortgages >We don’t know, no one

DO NOT EXPECT any *immediate* improvement in US #crypto policy, since Biden wasn’t in charge of it anyway—Warren has been in charge of it all along. Will the Warrenite financial svc agency appointees’ last gasp of power be an even harsher crackdown??? #OperationChokePoint2.0🤔

Robert Smith The whole Biden thing has been exactly like a bank run. The debate was the equivalent of a regulatory filing finally confirming what analysts long feared: insufficient cognitive reserves to meet investor and depositor liabilities. This prompted all the heavy weights to start

this is the most important legal case happening in crypto this year and will set enormous precedent for developers building on crypto rails. if you have the means, please donate ETH via JuicΞbox Protocol. link in the next post.

“The United States’ advantage is decentralized and open innovation. Some people argue that we must close our models to prevent China from gaining access to them, but my view is that this will not work and will only disadvantage the US and its allies. Our adversaries are great at

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It is one thing to tax energy sources differently. It is quite another to tax users of the same energy source differently. Bitcoin can incentivize the buildout of renewable energy. But maybe not, if bitcoin mining is taxed more than AI or pornography for using the same energy.

FOIA Files EXCLUSIVE: It took 11 yrs & 3 separate #FOIA requests but I finally obtained docs from DOJ about the agency's legal analysis of the trillion-dollar platinum coin, which #MintTheCoin advocates view as a way to circumvent the cycle of debt crises 🧵

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THE NETWORK SCHOOL We got an island. That’s right. Through the power of Bitcoin, we now have a beautiful island near Singapore where we’re building the Network School. We’re starting with a 90-day popup that runs from Sep 23 to Dec 23, right after the Network State Conference.

There is so much alpha in books from 1870 to 1930, it's unreal.

Seeing crypto people decry Pavel's arrest....guys...this is why crypto matters. Telegram, X, Facebook...they're all backdoored. Durov wouldn't share the backdoors with France so he got arrested. If you think X doesn't have backdoors....the answer isn't to whine on yet another

Both the First Amendment and federal statute prohibit what Harris is proposing in terms of social media regulation here. "Hate and misinformation" - whatever that means - is free speech in the United States, and the government may not interfere with it.