Oddbean new post about login | logout Feels like he says things that he knows Bitcoiner’s want to hear in an effort to placate us. But if you listen carefully he has some pretty statist / fiat views. The guy is a world class salesman. He knows how to manipulate quite well.
Yea that’s definitely true. He’s at a minimum buddy’s with intelligence people but it probably runs deeper than that. But a moron? Idk man
Moron is the polite phrasing. If he's actually that dense he's a moron. I personally suspect you're spot on with the intelligence ties and he knows much more and is playing a role. In that world he's just a douche instead of moron.
What do you think his end game is?
6102 styled acquisition has always been my assumption tbh.
I think about this a lot. The thing we have going for us is the ability to be really slippery, and my hope is there’s a critical mass of self custody plebs by the time they try some shit. Also they’ll obv go after a lot of other assets before Bitcoin so that should give us some runway. Not a fun thought tho