It sounds as if your plans to leave are NOT in the too distant future, which surely has a bit of a sad undertone, even though none of us are immortal in any kind of a meaningful way, since it seems that AI will likely fail to capture our essences, while that is at least my sense of those of us who seem to be mostly human (or maybe all human and just with a bad image?).


You are not wrong, and surely those of us who are able to stay focused are likely going to be in a better place than the various shitcoiners, and likely the "insider" shitcoiners will still end up coming out o.k.. while they are fleecing retail.. .. but what else is new?

Some normies are going to figure out that bitcoin is the signal, so not all of them will end up being duped.    We  are largely saying similar things, you just seemed to emphasize the negative angle with a kind of expectation that humans have potential to human better, but that seems a bit of a hard bar since we are surely all flawed and gullible in various ways that end up getting exploited.. and even a lot of very smart peeps get sucked into some level of exploitation by the misinformation and disinformation.

I don't have any exact solution regarding how to help to save people from themselves... it tends to be a kind of process and a kind of way of the world in which we live, currently..   Maybe I am just saying that change takes time, and some eggs are going to get cracked along the way of eating a yummy omlet.


Apart from your proclamation to seek out shitcoin opportunities, you make some decently good points.

Bitcoiners should still be in a good position to weather out higher prices of 2x to 3x-ish in  the next 6-8 years, investors in other assets will vary in terms of their abilities to keep up in real terms.

I am  likely not enough of a visionary to consider the ways that AI would be culpable of fucking up jobs as much as it might get blamed for other irresponsible aspects of governments that interfere with world-wide markets and incentives to work in a variety of ways that AI would not quite be ready to fill.  I suppose there could be some value in attempting to study these kind of impacts more, yet the elephant in the room likely relates more to various government money systems and various ways that free markets do not exist, and surely I don't even know the resolution to those kinds of matters since there is always going to be interplay between labor and capital and some aspects of trickle down does likely work but also workers are going to have uprising too if there might be lack of sharing of company profits. ... and I am not even claiming to know the solution to these kinds of tradeoffs that may become even worse during periods of unrest. 

I have doubts if Trump and his various team members have all (or even most) of the answers, at least from the USA angle or how whatever the USA might do in light of world ramifications, either.


You are likely not wrong in anything that you say including that there are going to be KYC channels that are pushed and preferred, but direct transactions still exist and there are still people working on ways to directly transact.

yes, we have problems with tax treatment that discincentivizes direct transactions and other attacks on self-custody and software development.

Yes.. I understand it  all is not going to be magically resolved in any kind  of quick way, and battles are going to continue to be fought.. and I don't even want to get into any of your specifics, which again none of them are really wrong, except perhaps your seemingly futile (overly pessimistic) undertone.   

NOSTR is a great place for you to be expressing your views (and I likely have to get there sometime soon-ish), including questioning the extent to which Jack Dorsey is pushing KYC or non-KYC interactions.  I don't see Dorsey as an enemy, even though his bitkey is not really a very great wallet, even though it purports to  be.

By the way, you did not quite say that stable coins can be a kind of backdoor to have a CBDC without calling it a CBDC.. so I thought maybe I could add that point to the extent that you did not seem to highlight the problem of that angle.


Of course he is engaging in a kind of affinity scam... I am not sure how it can be stopped, but he likely is going to spark a lot of ethics investigations, and the backlash might not be helpful in regards to his being able to accomplish some of the more meaningful policy kinds of pushes, at least related to bitcoin.. and some of his other stuff can be quite divisive, but what else is new when it comes to that cat.. pushing limits and frequently going  beyond limits as a kind of negotiation position that might end up blowing up on him if he is not able to reign some of it in enough.