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The Revolution Of 2024 From ZeroHedge Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election, the results of which defied every prediction. Who doesn’t like to see the smug elites who have ruled the world for five awful years taken […] Nov 16th 2024 12:50pm EST Source Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/revolution-2024 Share, promote & comment with Nostr: https://dissentwatch.com/boost/?boost_post_id=876429

Thanks for sharing this article by Jeffrey Tucker; I've known of and respected Tucker for at least a decade now, and still appreciate his libertarian takes on many things... Jeffrey was the MC at Libertopia 2014, where at that time he strongly championed bitcoin. Since then, I had lost track of his thinking on bitcoin, and only recently was quite surprised to learn he'd departed from the bitcoin fold. Reading this article prompted me to try and learn when and how he changed his bitcoin position, and I found this: https://stacker.news/items/511016

criticising a thing that has a life of its own just because the mainstream has started paying attention to it for the way the mainstream is paying attention to it is kinda lame tho and speaking from a platform that is far more centralised now than it was 15 years ago being so myopic about something far bigger than any other economic phenomenon in maybe centuries is pretty cringe... when you look at the big picture, nothing has changed, and bemoaning the fact that nasty people are trying to capture bitcoin is pretty ignorant of the history of repeated attempts that have failed in the last 9 years or so, i think you can even trace it back to Consensys and JP Morgan trying to muscle in on it with Ethereum, and the fact that most mainstream and even this "alternative" libertarian culture bastion barely even know about that, or the deeper story behind Ver, and Wright and Ross Ulbicht and the Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded and the ongoing darkweb and Tor and Nostr now i mean, it's just ignorant, speaking authoritatively about a subject they clearly have barely even looked into since 2015