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 Greg Foss does not understand Bitcoin at all, not sure why he's so prominent  
 Hot take 
 He's very entertaining  
 IMO he got very repetetive very quickly. He was fun to listen to for a bit but then he got annoying.

Didn't dislike the guy, just didn't think he ever had anything new to say. 
 How do you mean? Hes been in the space awhile now 
 He calls it insurance and lost his whole stack  
 Compassion 
 What he lost his corn? He had a bunch. How lol 
 He sold it all to buy some stonk that went to zero 
 Damn. Pour one out for a fallen hero lol I always liked him. Wish he'd join nostr 
 Holy shit 👀 
 No fucking way 
 I don't think it was that? Pretty sure he said it was an investment in an energy company that was connected to bitcoin mining I think, which he trusted too much. He was on Nat Brunell's pod recently talking about it and being diagnosed bipolar, which I kind of suspected when he previously spoke about his depression, but also goes on these massive rants and appears jacked. Common for bipolar people. If I had bipolar I'd try and steer clear of investing as much as possible and just stack sats. Easier said than done though. He's just a guy trying to make it in the world like all of us. 
 Nothing against him as a person just doesn't seem wise for people to follow his ideas 
 People could do much worse 😄 
 While I agree with your analysis I don’t see him espousing anything significantly deviating from
standard bitcoiner talking points.

Which ideas do you find problematic? 
 Talking about Bitcoin as insurance instead as money. It's just flat out incorrect. You don't save and spend or self custody insurance policies 
 Everyone has their own way of understanding and explaining bitcoin. E.g. "insurance", but it's not meant literally. 
 The dude had a pretty large bitcoin stack and invested it into a “peaker plant” power company whose stated intention was to sell power to bitcoin miners (hut8). Peaker plants only turn on when power supplies are insufficient for demand. Bitcoin miners intentionally sell their allotment of power back to the grid during times of peak demand, as the power they’re allotted is more valuable at that moment than the bitcoin they could mine(ie- they can just sell the power and buy bitcoin)

The dude is kinda straight dumb. He calls bitcoin insurance, but used his bitcoin as capital for an investment in something that made no sense, and lost his shirt. 
 Oh shit, he really lost it all/most of/a lot of his bitcoin?!

I thought he was a real one. And at such an age, I would think he wasn't gonna take risks, and he fucking knew the "asymmetric upside" geez! 
 He definitely gambled like someone who doesn’t :S
He is prominent from bull posting last cycle with some decent macro arguments, doing lots of podcasts band being a bit bombastic last cycle, and joining with swan. Imo 
 I figured out why he was so prominent when he sat on a panel at Pacific Bitcoin about 9/11 👻👻👻 
 1. He's hilarious..."The US dollar is the fastest horse in the glue factory" "Charlie Munger--don't buy the green bananas".
2. He's a huge character.
3. He understands debt markets and developed a new framework for valuing Bitcoin using credit risk and rush of sovereign default. 
4. He's funded a ton of education resources. 
 Haven't heard from for a while since I dumped Xitter. He used to be nice and funny, not sure what he's up to now.  
 Foss is an idiot and I have always hated listening to him on podcasts, even when I was still green 
 That guy is a pompous, bloviating ass. 
 Cafe Bitcoin  
 He just likes to invent his own version of bitcoin.  Why some people would rather believe false things instead of just accepting the reality of what bitcoin is I can't understand