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Aug 4, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Here’s a super weird thought of the day: Some of the Nazi death camp infrastructure (Auschwitz, for example) is now preserved as a museum/memorial, so that future generations will remember what happened and of what horrors humans are capable of perpetrating and enduring. /1
While the preservation of these places is important work, it does mean that as time and the elements try to wipe these places from the earth, someone’s job is to push back. Does someone have to string new barbed wire when it rises away? There’s got to be a janitor who /2
Sep 15, 2021 • 37 tweets • 8 min read
@BCAppelbaum, there's no way to sugar-coat this. Your piece today on Bitcoin was...not good. Poorly researched and full of misunderstandings, it is in dire need of correction. Thread 🧵: nytimes.com/2021/09/14/opi…
You begin your column citing El Salvador's recent adoption of Bitcoin as an official currency, then slyly draw a parallel with Esperanto, a 19th c attempt at a universal language. Is "New things don't always catch on" the best you could come up with here?
Jan 11, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Bitcoin has caused me to reconsider a commonly held idea about the history of the United States, and by extension history in general.
I’ve thought for awhile now that we could be living in a time on par with, and surpassing, the importance of the American Revolution. /1
Along with that comes the idea that we are seeing in “Bitcoin world” a gathering of minds on par with those which made up the Founding Fathers.
The FF are commonly seen as an extraordinary gathering of just the right individuals at just the right time, and there is truth /2
Jan 5, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
So here’s a theory about what’s behind the ongoing lockdown violations by the very people pushing lockdowns. It might explain why all of the officials who keep getting caught doing this seem to come from the same political slant.
Last year, there was talk about /1
The idea of “luxury beliefs”. The idea behind this theory is that as the differentiation between the working and upper-middle class blurs in terms of lifestyle and material status symbols, people will find other avenues of demarcation. /2
