Yesterday's embarrassing verdict in the #TornadoCash case is a clear demonstration of what was predicted in the 1997 book "The Sovereign Individual".

It predicted the appearance of #bitcoin, the freedom it will give to people, governments' response & the outcome.

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Connecting the dots:

Dutch minister Christianne van der Wal is in charge of slashing a large part of Dutch agriculture to reduce nitrogen emissions.

The policy is 100% model based (no measurements) and has been contested by highly reputable scientists.

1/ This is the reason for this week's protests of farmers who stand to lose their livelihoods, often built up over generations.

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Are you connecting the dots?

1/ Last week: Mexican President @lopezobrador_ threatens to cancel his participation in the Summit of the Americas in June, as have done several other Latin-American leaders.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur… 2/ He did meet, however, with the President of #ElSalvador about a week earlier.
laprensalatina.com/lopez-obrador-…

1\ #Ethereum and most other #altcoin network infrastructure runs predominantly on Amazon servers because their additional "functionality" requires a lot more computing power.

Why is that a huge risk in today's reality?

A thread 🧵⬇️ 2\ Marketing of most #cryptocurrencies relies strongly on emphasizing how their #blockhain is better, faster and more versatile than #Bitcoin.

99% of these projects' newbie target audience don't understand that bitcoin's seemingly limited utility is a feature and not a bug.