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The paper behind these breathless articles leaves a LOT to be desired. Brief threadhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-06/bitcoin-blockchain-operations-in-china-threaten-climate-goals This is the article in question. It doesn

cantillon insider is desperate to maintain the classist, exclusionary dollar system. news at 10https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/1380226928003719173 I wasn't born in this country, nor was I a US citizen at birth. I went

Big news! The @CambridgeAltFin cryptoasset benchmarking study is out. Big takeaway: they estimate the number of cryptoasset users at 101m worldwide, up from 35m in 2018, using the same methodology

social media platforms don't create valuable property from scratch and then dole it out to users. the users stake their claim to digital real estate, build a homestead, fill it

Most normal people really hate the idea of filtering the earth's crust to find tiny bits of special rock and putting that rock back in holes guarded by men with

Read this thread. I think many underestimate the ways Bitcoin blockspace supports more txns today relative to 2017. - simply more space (2-3x more thanks to SW)- batching + SW

This is your annual reminder that Bitcoin pizza day may well have been a consequence of Satoshi admonishing Laszlo over accumulating so many BTC from his experiments with GPU mining

Reading this thread makes me feel like an ape in 2001: a Space Odysrey staring at the monolithhttps://twitter.com/cmsholdings/status/1260897355945181185 I get the vague sense that something important is going on here

On a serious note is there a risk of sovereign defaults from nations that rely heavily on oil exports? Here's 2018 data for heavily exposed countriesh/t @timpastoor for the idea

When this is up the political pressure to forgive all student loans will be overwhelming. Remember: it’s “only” $1.5T. That’s an average Tuesday for the Fed these daysJubilee 2020https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1248380096903176193 Paid

contemporary midwit sciencism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human racehttps://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1247343900475490304 this thread is probably the purest single manifestation of this absolutely toxic cultural pathology to

> legacy payments systems have fraud because of deferred settlement > blockchains have quick finality, wow no fraud> blockchains do not scale, let's introduce deferred settlement > resultant systems predictably