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=== 2017 ===
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|content=@MikeFrench13 @tommartell I’m fine with that. Thanks for your candor.
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|content=Tired of “Bitcoin gains in value!” headlines?
Try this: “Against a mysterious world-wide low-grade revolution in the industrialized world, the dollar & other violence backed fiat currency continued their collective plunge against math backed Bitcoin.”
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|content=Note: I’m *not* a Bitcoin evangelist & I don’t pretend to know the future. I do know of other ways to view this event that must be explored.
|timestamp=4:28 AM · Nov 29, 2017
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|content=@MikeFrench13 @tommartell I have no doubt that there will be collapse(s). Perhaps many. Bitcoin may well even be destroyed. Read it again. It’s not implying what you seem to be inferring.
|timestamp=9:20 PM · Nov 29, 2017
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|timestamp=11:07 PM · Nov 29, 2017
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|content=@kylerow I don't think there is any question that there will be 'implosions'. I also don't think there's much question that crypto-structures are here to stay, evolve and grow no matter what happens to Bitcoin.
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=== 2018 ===
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|content=The Nakamoto Collective is almost the only forward looking thing I can think of. 11 years ago, I was unable to get our Prime Broker to take seriously that a small Hedge Fund wanted to speculate on some new concept. It was so cumbersome that I gave up and wrote an essay instead...
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|content=7/ I hope this is wrong. But if it‘s correct, “improper” bitcoin transactions will start to carry serious criminal penalties. Further @jordanbpeterson will not deliver a technological fix as indicated.


I remember the polite discussion about liquidity, clearing, custody, spreads, etc. By the end, they were laughing at us. There is something about *institutional* ridicule that allows those who had just blown up the world to deride others even when the institutions are disgraced.
Watch @datasociety, @nytimes coverage & payment channels.


Bitcoin at the time felt totally sketchy as a financial instrument as it was tied to contraband. But I didn’t see it as money. If I did, I would be unimaginably wealthy if I didn’t lose it all to digital theft, accidental loss or spending it . But I am an idiot in these matters.
Happy Holidays.
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|content=1/ The Christmas Thread.


The reason I was interested in it was more complex. If Bitcoin was digital gold, and gold was a quantum mechanical wave, then some group had created a:
First off, Merry Xmas to all.


1) Novel</br>
I’m asking for your help. I want to know whether any of you know about any quiet working groups or meetings involving but not limited to Visa/MC/PayPal/etc working on the issues of “populism”/“radicalization” as euphemisms.
2) Locally enforced</br>
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3) Digital</br>
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4) Conservation law</br>
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|content=2/ This would be organized by by some group like CFR, NAS or some other blue chip institution. It would be looking to figure out how to handle the “problems” of popular nullification of institutional objectives. In short it would view Brexit, Trump and restrictionism as “hate”.
|timestamp=2:23 AM · Dec 26, 2018
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|content=3/ This quiet meeting would bring together the major “stakeholders”(?) which would not include the public. The twin problems the meeting would actually be trying to solve are “free speech” and “democratic choice” which the public generally doesn’t want solved at all.
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|content=4/ The meeting would explore the question of how to use the existing anti-terror programs &amp; platform level controls to handle garden variety dissent contributing to popular nullification as if it were “hate speech”, which it would claim was akin to, or a gateway for, terror.
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|content=5/ I’m not asking b/c I have any information that such a meeting occurred. I, in fact, have NO such information. However, I am well aware of how coordinated action has been made to look more “emergent”, in the past &amp; I now think we’re at a very dangerous juncture between 2018-20.
|timestamp=2:23 AM · Dec 26, 2018
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|content=6/ This all now looks way off to me. Patreon is just the window through which we are glimpsing it. Why? Because they‘re clumsy. I fear we‘re seeing some plan to reestablish the former power of the Gated Institutional Narrative well above Patreon’s paygrade using payment networks.
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=== 2019 ===


Called the blockchain. And money was but one thing it could be.
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|content=@TearsOfKekistan @jgreenhall Jordan is very different to my way of thinking. More focused on emergent governance.
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|content=My emphasis on "Sense-making" came from him directly as did the phrase. I don't know that I can or would recommend him to most sane people. Just know that he's out there and that when everyone has gone crazy, he is one of 5 or so people I call to make sure I'm not losing my mind.
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|content=I'd like to pay a debt or two. I have not always had the easiest relationship with @jgreenhall over the last 10 years and I don't always feel comfortable with his takes on things. But he is one of my "minds of last resort." Early on @wikileaks &amp; @Bitcoin. Maddening on everything.
|timestamp=10:13 PM · Feb 13, 2019
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|content=Thought those of you who put up with me should know; I've been thinking about this for a long time and it's time to boost @jgreenhall's signal: high variance, high insight, and high agency. Just know, he's not your indoor cat.  


Can you imagine. Some group was creating as-if physics inside the network. Bitcoins to me were ‘waves’ propagating not in vector bundles, but on networked computers as substrate.
End.
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|content=@eigenboop @jgreenhall He can be amazing.
|timestamp=6:56 AM · Feb 14, 2019
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|content=@TynnLyzzi @jgreenhall More than welcome.
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This was genius. I reasoned at the time that it didn’t make sense to me as a medium of exchange.
=== 2020 ===


And I hated the blockchain. What the Satoshi collective had done was genius. But there should be no ledger. Gold, as a wave, doesn’t tell you where it has been. So instead I dreamed of meeting the Satoshis and getting rid of that damn implementation by using digital bundles.
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|content=Why stop there? Bitcoin wants to know.
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So, Satoshis if you’re out there, you haven’t needed fame or been eager to cash in. That is likely because you get where this is going. Please find me or someone who can explain how AU works as a wave in a bundle. Let’s build a new digital physics around local conservation laws.
=== 2021 ===


I wrote this 11 years ago. I always thought you’d read it & come find me. You weren’t rich then. You were either a government project, a collective or a lone genius. But you inspired me like little in our time. This was my attempt to get you to reach out:
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|content=I wrote this 11 years ago. I always thought you’d read it &amp; come find me. You weren’t rich then. You were either a government project, a collective or a lone genius. But you inspired me like little in our time. This was my attempt to get you to reach out:


https://edge.org/response-detail/11861
https://edge.org/response-detail/11861
 
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Thank you. For everything. And congratulations. Not on your wealth, but for giving us all the means of escape. For creating something truly new. And for having it up for for so long and proving the naysayers wrong. I have no words.  
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What you created wasn’t money but hope. 🙏
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|content=Bitcoin at the time felt totally sketchy as a financial instrument as it was tied to contraband. But I didn’t see it as money. If I did, I would be unimaginably wealthy if I didn’t lose it all to digital theft, accidental loss or spending it .  But I am an idiot in these matters.
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|content=So, Satoshis if you’re out there, you haven’t needed fame or been eager to cash in. That is likely because you get where this is going. Please find me or someone who can explain how AU works as a wave in a bundle. Let’s build a new digital physics around local conservation laws.
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|content=And I hated the blockchain. What the Satoshi collective had done was genius. But there should be no ledger. Gold, as a wave, doesn’t tell you where it has been. So instead I dreamed of meeting the Satoshis and getting rid of that damn implementation by using digital bundles.
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|content=Can you imagine. Some group was creating as-if physics inside the network. Bitcoins to me were ‘waves’ propagating not in vector bundles, but on networked computers as substrate.
 
This was genius. I reasoned at the time that it didn’t make sense to me as a medium of exchange.
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|content=The reason I was interested in it was more complex. If Bitcoin was digital gold, and gold was a quantum mechanical wave, then some group had created a:
 
1) Novel</br>
2) Locally enforced</br>
3) Digital</br>
4) Conservation law</br>
 
Called the blockchain. And money was but one thing it could be.
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|content=Thank you. For everything. And congratulations. Not on your wealth, but for giving us all the means of escape. For creating something truly new. And for having it up for for so long and proving the naysayers wrong. I have no words.
 
What you created wasn’t money but hope. 🙏
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