This flipped within our lifetimes.Before 2016, it was considered paranoid right-wing extremism (albeit true; see Venona) to claim that Russian spies had infiltrated the US government.After 2016, it became mainstream conventional wisdom (albeit false; see Russiagate) to claim that Russian spies had infiltrated the US government.The reason is that for much of the 20th century Russia was on the communist left. But by 2016, Russia was now on the nationalist right.So, the idea of a Russian conspiracy was not use ...

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New podcast on the Bitcoin Network State.Bitcoin Archive (@BTC_Archive):BALAJI: BITCOIN AND THE NETWORK STATEI talk to Balaji Srinivasan the former Coinbase CTO, and ex-Andreessen Horowitz VC about:- Rise of Bitcoin- The Network State- America's Decline- China & India---------------------------------------Connect with Balaji:X: @balajis https://t.co/6gGQbOrhkC ...

Privacy is not a crime.Free Roman Storm!https://t.co/0IfNesOpSm https://t.co/S1RXX0gWNVHaseeb ＞|＜ (@hosseeb):Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that ...

RT Haseeb ＞|＜ (@hosseeb)Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that Tornado Cash as built complied with the law, under the guidance given by FinCEN in 2019.The government has now stated in open court that they are contemplating charges against Dragonfly for having invested i ...

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Stablecoins do offset. They can extend lifespan.It's possible that most local fiats collapse against USD, while USD then collapses against BTC.Like most local papers collapsing against NYT, and NYT then collapsing against social media.https://t.co/rhUCQ0tx3fFlorent (@FloB_Safe):@balajis How can the dollars lose the dominance while US stablecoins are being spread across the planet ? ...

Yes, but no manufacturing economy can be realistically stood up in time to replace the sheer consumption that money-printing enables.Example: to make $1T, you can (a) print or (b) sell $1000 phones to 1B people. Obviously, the former is far easier.https://t.co/glnreb1a1V https://t.co/kNFZgGpqdZMichael Bruno (@brubarian):@balajis Have you read Miran’s piece tying reserve currency to trade and national security? It helps frame this recent trend in dollar depreciation. ...

De-dollarization Trend - JPMC承认“去美元化”已成为投资者、企业和市场参与者讨论的重要议题 [1] - 随着美国去全球化，全球去美元化趋势显现 [1]

JP Morgan is updating their p(doom), but for the dollar. https://t.co/NtCivnXCJo ...