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calle 👁️⚡👁️ | 7 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +25 
 Story time. My encounter with Bitcoin OG, privacy extremist, and defector Amir Taaki:

- "Hey Amir. I work on a Chaumian Ecash system for Bitcoin and I thought you might like it"
- "Ecash on Bitcoin? Well, good luck with THAT!"
- "Why? It's actually going pretty well."
- "Bitcoiners are all ret****d. All they know is HU HU - HODL (imitates cavemen sounds)"
- "Ok boomer. Let's talk about cryptography now."

Some of the old guard has no idea what's going on these days.
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Karnage | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 He’s somewhat right. 50% of bitcoiners ARE retarded. And proud of it 🤣
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calle 👁️⚡👁️ | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 *have
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OT | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Must be jaded

Did he mention "darkfi" 

Cringe...
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calle 👁️⚡👁️ | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Of course, he's all about Dark Fi
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OT | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Heartwarming
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Cleaningup12 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 🤣🤣
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EZ | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Last time I interviewed him he was launching shitcoin based version of DeFi which he called "DarkFi" so no surprise here 

https://dark.fi/manifesto.html
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DarthCoin | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 He's totally right, people are retarded nowadays.
Even worse, they now are looking only for compliance with the govs.

https://i.postimg.cc/7ZG3tVrM/compliance.jpg
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Max Hillebrand | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Best comeback
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⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡ | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Amir NGMI
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Stirling Forge | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We'll see how that works out for them
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "some" haha... have you heard the hilarious takes from Bruce Schneier and Nassim Taleb about bitcoin?