Our confidence in systems is gaining on our basic instinct toward confidence in loud people — because the latter is predictably faltering. This will have an interesting implication on, say, the structure of social media, where we basically follow loud people and not … systems.

Most social media interaction and response occurs on recent posts. But likes, retweets, and “you were right” replies on older posts become different, important signals too.

bear markets are exactly like this. everyone dies in a spectacular way but the few things that had solid foundations remain standing strong regardless of the environment around them. ethereum and the merge is the one very real success story this year. bad cexes deserve to die.

Every drip of permacrisis, revealing some malfeasance or deceit or failure in public, is an opportunity for looking back in public posts and exclamations: Who had it right? Was being right an anomaly, or do they deserve new amplification? The new trust-worthiness for any media.

I think the “bot problem” is going to invert. We might rather let our attentions be shaped by a programmatic feed of “bots”—that prove consistently right, accurate, and comprehensive—over loud and consistently wrong people with their self-interest, hubris, and limited vantages.

“Not your keys, not your coins.”

Would it be possible for U.S. regulators to annul/reverse the Twitter acquisition? Meaning would it be procedurally possible.

There seems to be an intellectual type today whose whole explicit approach is “I can’t be bothered to learn about crypto, or Africa, or China, or the metaverse, or Islam, or QAnon or anything really”. And this is regarded as wisdom?

Much has been made about Twitter accounts being undeservingly suspended in the past (i.e. trolls, bots, inauthentic behavior). I am researching how many suspended Twitter accounts get “unbanned” over time — and as an added curiosity how many of those then pay to become verified.

Is identity and payment verification, such as in Twitter Blue, antithetical to web3’s culture and priority toward pseudonymity, financial privacy, and protected/equal-access speech? Does Twitter Blue really jell with those principles? Is Crypto Twitter racing to get verified?

blocknyt.com allows “mass blocking” of a series of affiliated Twitter accounts. This kind of self-guided inoculation, helpfully coordinated with one-click ease, actually solves “the bot problem” better than Twitter Blue. Let users decide their attention expenditure.

I am shocked, appalled, and frankly, angry. BTC was birthed from the trauma of 2008. Sam's actions are a perversion of everything crypto stands for. My heart goes out to all of the victims whose trust was betrayed, savings lost, and livelihoods destroyed.

Would “verify every human” include Satoshi Nakamoto?