I don’t necessarily disagree. Lyn didn’t say exactly what Napier thinks govt would do so I’m guessing what I think is the most common claim: they co-opt a few entities that control a large (and growing) portion of the UTXO set and either outright seize it, or do something else like a forced fork onto “gov chain”. Maybe that’s not the angle. But if it is, how does the likes of Nostr combat it effectively? And if it’s not the govt angle, what would it be?

*don’t see

ETFs/Coinbase and Microstrategy at the present time. I see how our enhanced abilities to coordinate these days help much in the scenario where a government decides to go after these large blocks of UTXOs controlled by a handful of entities.

What precisely is it about improved coordination that negates the financial repression tools which Napier claims will destroy Bitcoin? I believe we need to make it sufficiently difficult for the government to control large swathes of the UTXO set to avoid what happened to gold, but I don’t quite see how better/faster communication tools help very much there.

The solution is that knots create a version of Bitcoin that does everything except financial transactions. :taps head meme:

It’s not quite that stories are dangerous; stories are powerful and often useful. In the west, the vast majority of people in the world have no *need* for rationalism, and in most of the rest of the world being rational can easily lead to ostracization or worse, which is why…

It’s really amazing. The interesting thing to me is that I get it now more than ever— even though I run shorter distances and with less intensity than I used to. I’m wondering if it is down to me skimming more information than ever from Nostr and X, which ultimately gives me more information to work with when in that higher functioning mode. Total speculation and it contradicts what you’re suggesting to some extent, but it’s interesting to me.

When I go for a jog these days, I’ve noticed a large amount of increased insight and clarity of thought in recent years. Feels like my IQ goes up a full 5 points. Not sure if the below effect is setting a lower bar to rise from and it’s basically a wash, or if I’m spending more time accumulating a broad range of things that are more effectively synthesized when the blood is flowing in my brain.

Maybe I’m dumb!

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