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 Just listened to this masterpiece after reading it 2 years ago, and IT IS JUST SOOO FUCKING GOOD!!!

I did not appreciate it as much as I do now. https://image.nostr.build/9c34d89cd500b6b5d65a12d9d2e5347dd0ab6eb637e36a552fa1e935549402de.jpg  
 Re-reading old stuff is a good way to track how much you’ve grown. 
 Sometimes I run into a tech guy on Twitter, who talks about how cypherpunk he is.

I’m just a f... 
 Weird 
 Trump is a dollar maxi.

That is all, that is the message. We can all move on now 
 Yikes…It is kinda tough listening to this whole speech 
 I doubt he will, but fingers crossed 
 I was wrong, he eventually did🤣 
 Good afternoon.

The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump h... 
 Honestly, Idk my feeling on this whole phenomenon. Am happy Bitcoin is front and center and politicians are bending the knee to the industry.

But are they bending the knee!? Or is this part of the plan to bring us to heel?

Keep an eye out👀!

I’ll take freedom over NGU anytime of day 
 I don't know what I don't know but how I see it playing out is that,

they could vilify any native use cases for Bitcoin as being the wild-wild west and regular people who aren't in Bitcoin conversations (like we are) will be non the wiser.  While these same regular people are being pushed towards controlled systems like the "bitcoin dollar", propaganda could make us look like villains for choosing a different system.

While Bitcoin might be inevitable, having the masses blame us for the break down of the fiat system will turn them against native-use cases of Bitcoin rather than embracing these use cases. In that case, no one really case about the wealth of villains. Wealth confiscation might be rampant. 

Just my thoughts.