Share this page!

allen farrington Profile picture
Twitter logo
6 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I’ve only cried as an adult 3 times that I can remember: when my gf accepted my proposal, listening to @Snowden, and now listening to @JackMallers.
and that order matters btw: I will only ever be in awe of Edward and Jack from afar but family is the most important thing. especially the one you haven’t started yet 😊
sorry guys, I’m totes emosh.

your regularly scheduled shitposting will return posthaste 👍
fiancée is totes emosh too:

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with allen farrington

allen farrington Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @allenf32

allen farrington Profile picture
7 Jun
any bitcoiners working in traditional finance: your employer may not be as awesome as mine but don’t worry, your time will come and you’ll be a god damned hero 😊

DM me if you want any advice. happy to open source my institutional orange-pilling strategy 👍
so my DMs have exploded - WHICH IS A GREAT THING!

I’ll reply to all to be polite but a lot of what I’m saying is the same so I’ll shortly do a thread to make the generalities truly “open source”

...
okay, here goes:

1. *be clear on your goals and approach them tactically*

don't make your first swing about Austrian economics, regenerative farming, the petrodollar, or whatever other nonsense you've heard me spout off on.

remember that what you are trying to help ...

1/n
Read 32 tweets
allen farrington Profile picture
28 May
I had an interesting thought after listening to @harris_irfan and @saifedean and also chatting with Harris about his far too kind tweet below.

not to sound too grandiose but here follows my thesis on: what bitcoiners do and don't fight over.

🧵/n

Harris said he found it quite intimidating how smart everybody seems in the community. on the one hand, yay, go us, we are super smart 🤓

but on the other, I think the intimation is more a function of behaviour than intellgience. and it's indirectly a filter for humility.

2/n
there is simply no tolerance whatsoever for bullshit, and, simultaneously, the threshold for accepting something is that you understand it 100%, which means it needs to be perfectly explained to you also.

3/n
Read 14 tweets
allen farrington Profile picture
26 May
I'd be very, very, VERY careful dabbling in the "#Bitcoin is ESG" narrative and trigger-happily nailing your colors to the mast.

this narrative is absolutely true and will win out in the long run, but because bitcoin supports freedom, not because it supports audits 🙄
if you think capital allocators are going to give the slightest shit about greenwashing in the midst of a stagflationary bond market collapse, then I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you have been hoodwunk by ur-racoons, to happily borrow an @EpsilonTheory-ism.
"ESG" box-ticking is peak Cantillon.

in fact, it's Lenz's Law of Capitalism. it's not the horse you want to back, even from the most cynically capital markets-minded perspective you can imagine, *provided* you are sufficiently long-termist in outlook.

allenfarrington.medium.com/lenzs-law-of-c…
Read 4 tweets
allen farrington Profile picture
24 May
probably no group in human history has done more damage to the environment than "environmentalists".

the ultimate source of the climate being a political issue is that nuclear power is politically impossible.

we are in the early innings of the exact same thing with #bitcoin 🧵
the greenest future you can hope for with any shred of realism is predominantly nuclear and hydro, with pockets of wind, solar, and natural gas, all enormously aided by bitcoin mining reducing their cost of capital.

all else is virtue signaling bullshit, power-grabbing, or both.
and even in this greenest of greeny green greeneroo outcomes - assuming you want this, Mr Environmentalist - oil is sticking around for a long, long time to support the transition.

if you disagree, you hate humanity, are playing politics, or both:

Read 9 tweets
allen farrington Profile picture
23 May
I'm conscious of people hearing the same points all the time and everybody agreeing on the same things, and I didn't want to just add to the noise.

so Marty and I made a deal: I have a friend who has a unique way of explaining his take on #bitcoin so he's coming on with me.

1/3
I guarantee nobody will have heard this before or thought about it this way so I'm really excited, but it is important he tells it himself rather than me telling it for him.

the only problem is he is on a submarine and I don't know where it is or when it's coming back.

2/3
and in fact, nobody does. best guess is september or october ish, but there's really no way to know.

so when @MartyBent says "imminent", that's still true if your time preference is super low.

which it should be anyway so stop complaining.

I'M SO PUMPED! 🤪😃🥳

3/3
Read 4 tweets
allen farrington Profile picture
21 May
not that I speak for everybody or anything (except following thinkboi decimation EGMs) but my humble suggestion would be that the memes need to get more serious and more aggressive.

don't defend #bitcoin; make *them* defend literally anything else.

because the fight is coming.
for example:

and:

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-…
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @allenf32 has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @allenf32!

Read all threads by @allenf32

:(