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Feb 22 4 tweets 2 min read
@LukeGromen Translation: Sanctions shoot ourselves in the foot b/c it accelerates capital flight out of our financial system for virtually no benefit.
@LukeGromen To benefit from Sanctions, buy Bitcoin first, use it as a fishing net to re-capture the capital once it flies.
@LukeGromen If you're going to set the theater on fire, you should position yourself to get a cut of the rent people pay to escape the theater.

Hence why *all* financial system intermediaries need to be buying #BTC right now. Especially central banks. Especially governments.
@LukeGromen They don't because they are still living under this delusion that they can actually stop people from escaping the theater.

They're so complacent from not having competition for 400 yrs that they literally can't reconcile or understand the looming existential threat.

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Feb 22
"Dead men tell no tales" means dead men don't break promises. The implication of this idiom is that violence gives people zero-trust control over people & property. There is no such thing as zero-trust control over ppl/property w/o violence. Peace is merely a state of high trust.
What people misunderstand is that they assume violence must be kinetic. This has never been true.
I argue, an act qualifies as violence if it presens a credible threat of harm. Doesn't have to be physical harm. Can be social, emotional, or financial harm.

Thoughts?
The fundamental tension between peace & violence is that trust, itself, is an exploitable security vulnerability. Peace is a state of high trust, but higher states of trust are more vulnerable to exploitation that need to be resolved via violence.

Thus, war is inevitable.
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Jan 3
Problem is, u have to make sincere effort to understand the legitimacy & impact that war has had in scaling civilizations, to fully comprehend/understand why #bitcoin is so disruptive. So military guy has to explain war in notoriously anti-govt community. Recipe for disaster.
I end up being targeted as a warmongering spook for trying to point out the similarities (which is essential for understanding why #Bitcoin disrupts it).
Ironically, the "power projection" framework I'm introducing in my thesis destroys the FUD that nocoiners are so gullible to (ex. ESG, Web3), and are demonstrably effective a orange-pilling govt officials & boomers.

It's also a refreshingly new perspective for ppl IMO.
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Dec 19, 2021
Ethereum is useful f/lots of reasons, but sovereignty isn't 1 of them. This is why PoW is more secure than PoS. The fundamental security flaw of PoS is that it gets increasingly harder to countervail the control authority of stakers over time, forcing users to trust them
Stakers can change the validation rules on you. Stakers can withhold valid transactions from the ledger. You necessarily have to trust them not to do these things b/c you have increasingly less ability to countervail their control authority if they start breaking bad.
Yes - it is this simple.
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Dec 18, 2021
Don't mistake detail for information. Knowing technical details of things doesn't necessarily signal intelligence.

People who can (accurately) explain complex topics in simple ways have high signal-to-noise ratio b/c they know how to identify & filter out unimportant details.
The oldest trick in the book is using technical detail/jargon to attempt to signal intelligence, or as an obfuscation tactic to essentially deflect/escape an argument they can't win.

Engineers, scientists, & analysts do this often. It's easy to spot & very disingenuous IMO
Interestingly, this is one reason why the DoD pays for officers to attend esteemed engineering schools & get the highly technical degrees.

Makes it harder to BS military officers. You dont want your violence-wielders to be susceptible to BS.
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Oct 31, 2021
The store of value token is the cryptoeconomy value denominator - the implicit unit of account for all value to be generated in the future. Own the denominator token, and you will own it all...
People who favor alts over #bitcoin are assuming a future where these different coins live on the same layer, as equals. They do not believe on will denominate the other because the value of both are currently denominated by USD.
What they fail to understand is that when USD falls, the world will need a new denominator, and there will be one obvious answer - the energy token, the one we've already been tacitly using to compare the performance of altcoins for years
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