Oddbean new post about login | logout Took a while, but I now have alby connected, so I can zap to my heart's content. Let's do a contest. I'll give a prompt, funny responses get zaps. Reasons the mainstream media will give for why you shouldn't own Bitcoin.
It's not real. Only Jimmy Song and other criminals use it.
Because bitcoiners are mean
You're too damn smart to fall for magic internet money without any backing, right?🤔🤨😄
Because the price goes up and down, unlike anything in the "real" economy...
Anti trans / racist / climate destroyer used by extremists 🤷♂️
Its too speculative! Its not a store of value because if it were it would stay the same price. They are not sending their best! https://v.nostr.build/yqqDP.mp4 https://i.nostr.build/vGGvl.jpg
it’s boiling the oceans. bigly.
Bitcoin will un-gay the frogs
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Thought of you immediately after posting this
🫂😂 #Bitcoin saved the frogs 🐸 https://i.nostr.build/Q775Z.jpg
Definitely don’t want anyone being happy. 😆
Do not buy Bitcoin because @bitcoinpierre and his Bitcoin Mining is boiling the Oceans. This will be the BlackRock talking point when the Ethereum ETF launches and they got a new shiny product to sell to investors. https://v.nostr.build/WGGK3.mp4
Trump likes bitcoin
⚡️🤙💜
LFG Jimmy 💎⚡
Breaking News… Bitcoin stored in cold storage and not with a government approved custodian can cause people’s internal organs to swell and burst. Reports are flooding in from Christchurch, New Zealand, where a 26 year old man prolapsed this morning while buying a baked potato. Eyewitnesses said the man shuffled in a circle before a violent twitching overpowered him, and he collapsed. Seconds later, he babbled in an unknown language before his organs emptied onto the store floor drenching the area, and several bystanders, in blood and mucus. Politicians and police urge all Bitcoiners to be aware of the health risks associated with self custody and urge people to give over their private keys to a trusted government custodian before the anal twitching begins. G7 countries are having an emergency meeting in Brussels this weekend to put the finishing touches to their global campaign to keep citizens safe. “Make the switch before you get the itch’ is touted to be the message for Bitcoiners world wide. Stay tuned for more on this rapidly developing story.
Tulips, dude. QED.
zappity-do-da
"This good and not the bitcoins" Sounds like a joke but was a real newspaper cover when some spaniards were getting up early and forming queues in order to buy treasure bills https://image.nostr.build/f29fc82eca65fe884c7b3a4c4f6db231dcafceeed6b619ad85a0d75e2feecdc0.jpg
Bitcoin is used by the Patriarchy to maintain power
"Stop using Bitcoin! It could kill you! CDC reports of a highly contagious virus having escaped from a military super lab onto the internet. If exposed to Bitcoin, shut down all electronic devices and report to the nearest quarantine zone for testing. If unsure, download <this> government app that reports any and all Bitcoin use to the authorities. Oh, and Bitcoin has been linked to criminals. Yeah......"
it’s for communists
because is not issued by any government
"Bitcoin isn't a store of value, it's price is only going up because people are buying it" -Peter Shiff on FOX, probably.
Because Satoshi might return to steal our bitcoins and use them to fund terrorism
Destroying the $ therefore it's not patriotic ...!
You can em cheaper on Amazon. Only $14.59! https://m.primal.net/HlzX.jpg
It’s only used by criminals like Fortnite Winnie the Pooh https://m.primal.net/HmAU.png
"Bitcoin is an alien invention!": Some might suggest that Bitcoin was created by extraterrestrials with a dark plan to destabilise the world economy.
"Bitcoins cause baldness!": Wacky theories may be emerging linking the use of Bitcoin to hair loss, prompting some to avoid cryptocurrency to maintain their hair.
because there are only 21 millions, and we are 6 billion. not enough for everyone
BITCOIN MASSIVE BREAK OUT IS COMING SOON 🔥 THE PRICE IS CONSOLIDATING IN THUS BULLISH FLAG PATTERN. WE ARE IN A TREND CONTINUATION. PRAY FOR $75,000 !! https://t.me/RebelCapitalists/2
“Our expert tech reporters have found Bitcoin to be a scam. Our team each bought a small amount of Bitcoin and entered their addresses multiple times, but were never sent their special Bitcoin “keys”. Representatives from the post office agree that Bitcoin is a scam and this issue of mailing fictitious keys is just another part of the scam.”
"Bitcoin has no intrinsic value."
"Bitcoiners claim that there will never be more than 21M coins and yet accuse our existing financial institutions of causing poverty. Digital pot meet empty kettle?"
'What if Satashi pops up and says we're going to 42m coins?' - Jamie Dimon (I'm paraphrasing from memory)
Holding your own keys is hard and dangerous. Better spend hours getting a certified brokerage account, waiting on a business day to connect it to your bank account, set up a 401k with you fiat boss, filling out tax forms so your ruler knows everything, click out of all the warning messages required by the SEC, and own an ETF. Simple!
You will own no-thing and you will be happy. Owning bitcoin will make you unhappy. -MSM, Chief WEF Mouthpiece
"Bitcoin it's an attack to our stable and democratic economic system.." LOL
If the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones. HHH, Democracy: The God That Failed, p. 93 https://image.nostr.build/e86505dcabbd0e8b497b28796bd99185241fe70d45136834ea6fee1b54e309a2.png
page 172. Also, apparently he said a quote too that goes like "my goal is to introduce racial determinism to the Austrian method" which to me sounds seems like it explains his whole motivation straightforwardly. Can't remember where the quote is. https://image.nostr.build/b5acd43d36b003b39f5f187751196a870e4fb57de2cd1ba5d93c305bdcdecbb5.jpg
Hoppe has never said the word "decentralize", i dont think he's the right guy to listen to for praxis
Never? Hahah, you're rambling too big... You don't know shit. Just like all the classic anti-Hoppe ignoramuses. The fact that you simply discredit the man's works with a quick CTRL+F scan proves your malice. Go read without cherrypicking and then try to come... I leave below the excerpt from "Strategy: Stopping the Statist Disease" on page 6 of What Must Be Done to prove your absurdity: "... Second, because a monopoly of protection is the root of all evil, any territorial expansion of such a monopoly is per se evil too. Every political centralization must be on principle grounds rejected. In turn, every attempt at political decentralization—segregation, separation, secession and so forth—must be supported." https://cdn.mises.org/What%20Must%20Be%20Done_7.pdf
Ok, he used the word "decentralize", but in context, he means something different than what I mean. He's saying basically that we need to engage in politics and promote things like "brexit". I think here Hoppe presents a false dichotomy: He says if you against "political centralization" then you must support all "segregation, separation, secession".
You proved my point. You don't know shit. I repeat, don't make absurd criticisms and whataboutisms without cherrypicking sentences, without reading objectively, and without being fueled by all the fuzzy lolbertarians around. All his work is based on a complete philosophy, a sound logical epistemology and economic science. If you claim otherwise you are performatively contradictory and anything you have to say about decentralization or liberty is completely unimportant. I have no time for you.
"Bitcoin is bad for homotranslgbtsexuals. Click here to read why."
But The Reeeeeeegression Theoreeeeeeem!!! https://image.nostr.build/81cd5afd36b2ebe8c1d000e3c808e86628dddcf283fd53c761d0ef11e27f7dc1.gif
"if it was a good store of value the price wouldn't change"
It's racist, homophobic, misogynist, and a product of white supremacy!
Because it killed Charlie Munger. BTC killed Charlie. Live with that Bitcoiners, you evil fuckers. https://image.nostr.build/397b322562dbb9eec01327ae4296f9033e7195f676874e1f4491e219704d7293.jpg
Because "jOuRnALisM"
Laser eyes are scaring the children.
Because you can't call a helpdesk
why idle your car to solve sudokus that trade for heroin??
It's not backed by the "full faith and credit” of the U.S. government"
We've told you 476 times before that bitcoin has died - are you stupid?
„A single Bitcoin transaction could use the same amount of water needed to fill a garden swimming pool“ https://image.nostr.build/42c25f2517459dc12c546d9e07a56d879d6e0b6b2e278defd5a223f292f563e0.jpg
Aren't you aware that bitcoin funded Jan 6. It's money for insurrectionists. Don't be one of them.
Because you're funding Kim Jon's designer wardrobe https://i.redd.it/2odzaeypztt61.jpg
It's going to boil the oceans!
“You shouldn’t own bitcoin because you can’t throw darts at it. “ - Elizabeth Warren. Hands down the most hilarious one I’ve heard yet.
Because not backed by the army 🪖
Because you can't buy a "State Bitcoins" album to collect them with your grandkids.
