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by @tuur This new paper is a true declaration of war: the ECB claims that early #bitcoin adopters steal economic value from latecomers. I strongly believe authorities will use this luddite argument to enact harsh taxes or bans. Check 🧵 for why: https://m.primal.net/Laim.png Rather than praising bitcoin as a tech paradigm shift à la petroleum and the internet, the authors introduce the blatantly luddite argument that "early adopters" ... "increase their real wealth and consumption" ... "at the expense of [latecomers]". https://m.primal.net/Lain.png Then they go on to brazenly advocate for legislation ... "to prevent bitcoin prices from rising or to see bitcoin disappear altogether" in order to prevent "the division of society". https://m.primal.net/Laio.png The authors also model some projections, to illustrate the paltry amount of BTC that will remain available for latecomers. (Woe is me! Conspicuously left out is the reason that has driven 15 years of bitcoin adoption & development: it's simply better tech.) https://m.primal.net/Laiq.png In all the years I've been monitoring the bitcoin space, this is by far the most aggressive paper to come from authorities. The gloves are off. It's clear that these central bank economists now see bitcoin as an existential threat, to be attacked with any means possible. Many of us have warned that this was coming: bitcoin as a major political fault line both in national and international elections. Well here it is. It means that us HODLers must take action to insure that governments respect our basic right to hold property. And no, this won't be a war between haves and have-nots. Rather this will be a historic clash between those who stand for the natural rights of the individual, and those who clutch at the failed ideologies of collectivism and central planning. Here's the download link to the paper: "The distributional consequences of Bitcoin". (We need detailed rebuttals. Who's writing one?) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877

Salty no coiners writing papers. nostr:nevent1qqspjqz6rdwzvh7ayhxtgm65qjjejzqaapmq5jz2w65yury4g69gxgspz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyg8u7u9ytnagzl42syaeh29rwht385ckna9z0u7u4s75jyfd7e7n0cpsgqqqqqqs935pr4

As strange as it may sound, this is spell casting. Spell casting in sorcery is the attempt to alter reality through the spreading of lies. What is called propaganda in modernity. This just reveals unsurprising intention. which is, they want to steal from the people, malign the people, and hoarde all value for themselves. they will fail. they already have failed.

Anybody familiar with history of government propaganda has seen this narrative coming for 10 years. Those who have had this foresight already have filled their bags with Monero at the cost of a temporary purchasing power decrease as the full force of the state turns against it, delisting it, suppressing its price and media attention while bad mouthing privacy as something only criminals and terrorists would seek. This will self-correct. Monero is a great store of value for those who don't want to be excessively taxed like most KYC Bitconers.

This is a total declaration of war by the ECB towards Bitcoin, this is totally ridiculous and demonstrates the moral character of the European Union. Evolution always comes first, it is natural law, this logic applied by the ECB is totally anti-evolutionary and will lead to the demise of the European Union. Wanting to deny the natural law of the first is pure and simple communism and discourages any entrepreneurship. That we Bitcoiners are stealing wealth from others? That we bitcoiners will provoke social division? Those who cause social division are you murderous buracrats who create wars, those who steal are you communist bureaucrats with your abusive taxes. The only thing that is happening is that people are stopping using your fake money, Bitcoin is no longer a child's game, this moment I knew it would come, now it's time to be men, firm men, men with honor, men of conviction, it's time to fight for our dignity. European Bitcoiners, this is war. https://m.primal.net/Lajr.mp4 nostr:note1ryq95x6uye0a6fwvk3h4gp99nyypm6rkpfyy5a4gfcxf2352sv3qfd09rj

It’s a retarded argument. The paper is claiming that Bitcoin holders are benefitting at the expense of those with no exposure to Bitcoin. If that is true, the answer is to simply get exposure to Bitcoin.. It’s @saifedean's gunpowder analogy - once the technology exists (and the paper in its conclusion throws out the idea that Bitcoin could be legislated out of existence lol) you either adopt it and benefit, or you suffer from those who have adopted it. These clowns are just pissy that they can’t control it and they aren’t the ones holding the coins. A new group of financial elites is a threat to their power; they don’t want to buy in now and be “middle class”, they want to go back to them being at the top of the tree and failing that they want Bitcoin to disappear. nostr:note14hd2z48knluwy5t77ff6zkkf6fw4zrk3h06g4v2ttgakk67hqrusuv56eg

I also love how they say that only criminals use it for transactions yet they impose all the regulations that make doing any sort of business with Bitcoin criminal. If not literally illegal then the compliance and tax regulations make it so hard to do legally that it discourages people. Remove the regulation and CGT and then watch what happens to transactions.

how they claim software outside of their system can steal economic value and leave out money printing within their system really just shows they view laypeople as uneducated idiots who cant put anything together on their own

If anyone feels the need to contact the paper's authors, please feel free to email them at their emails below https://nostrcheck.me/media/16afe0531a7cd932b9a7c6cdceb9b6c19a43b364af4cce7eb6064de2f9bf18d0/410e9ca556ba14f910c2134f51bba2dea2cd0700c67c46602068257c5fcf1ec7.webp

I suppose from a central banker’s POV, the benefits of inflation are more widely spread as compared to the concentrated gains made by those early to Bitcoin. e.g. if inflation is at 2% but my pay rise is at 5% then I’m ok. And for those who can’t secure pay rises above inflation then the government’s increased tax haul linked to inflation (fiscal drag, greater receipts from sales taxes) helps fund support from social welfare programmes. @frphank what’s the best argument you have in favour of the current monetary system?

The argument is genuinely laughable. Seeing as they’re so incensed with the injustice of Bitcoin perhaps they’ll decide to return all the wealth they’ve plundered from around the world for Centuries. It’s not like European Monarchies have had a monopoly on land ownership in their respective jurisdictions. It’s not like they’ve colonised countries all over the globe and systematically impoverished billions of people around the world. Damn you bloody bitcoiners. How dare you take a chance on something most people ignored for the first 3 years. It’s not right.

>to provide the world with a better global means of payment has not materialized Hey ECB, did you read my guides? Check this out: https://darth-coin.github.io/merchants/bitcoin-lightning-payments-irl-en.html

Compensation for risks taken. Sanctity of contracts. Freedom to allocate scarce resources to their most productive ends. Basic capitalist premises protect this strawman argument. The EU is broken. The ECB will capitulate soon.

All this misunderstanding are based on bitcoin as a currency, not as an asset. The word #cryptocurrency causes this misleading. Bitcoin is an asset. Yes, it can be used as currency, but it's an asset. #bitcoin nostr:note1ryq95x6uye0a6fwvk3h4gp99nyypm6rkpfyy5a4gfcxf2352sv3qfd09rj

So let’s see if I have this right🤔 The peepl who are abusing the cantillon effect are trying to apply the description of the abuse of the cantillon effect to risk takers who invested early in a new technology (BTC)…and in essence front ran the cantillionares (who are used to having the advantage of early access to new money and inside information on most if not all assets)🤔😳 …🤔1st they ignore u (check) …🤔2cd they laugh at u (check) …😤3rd they fight you (ie arbitrary regulation and fud, mainstream flooding in (etf’s) and prolly manipulating prices, and now pitiful whining when “those retarded diamond handed f*cks” won’t sell… I’m sure soon to be followed by authoritarian regulation and legal/financial friction (taxes, fines and new civil laws) …🐸🌅and then just maybe we win…we’ll see how diamond handed the “retarded plebs🐸” really are “Freedom on my fellow retards” …and God Bless ya’ll (…if u are so inclined to be blessed)…and may good fortune smile upon u if ur religious beliefs are different from mine🐸🍻🌅🚀🚀🚀 https://m.primal.net/KiJz.jpg https://m.primal.net/LNuh.jpg

#Bitcoin will impoverish legalised plundering institutions run by unelected fiat intellectuals and the world will be a better place for it. https://image.nostr.build/71ddf54ff5f231819b15aba2cbbc086b5f0da22ffb19b2167d34d4c78ae00212.jpg nostr:nevent1qqspjqz6rdwzvh7ayhxtgm65qjjejzqaapmq5jz2w65yury4g69gxgspz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyg8u7u9ytnagzl42syaeh29rwht385ckna9z0u7u4s75jyfd7e7n0cpsgqqqqqqs935pr4

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Tl;Dr: A la "animal farm": Bankers are generous and good Bitcoiners are greedy and bad Everybody sing it with me! -ECB et al (PS even with many delusions about, methinks, this banker Revolution will find a hard time gaining traction?!)