I know and I agree with you.

They were promoted as permissionless cause you could have just spun up an Ethereum wallet and start transacting with USDC without any KYC.

The original promise for stablecoins was faster settlement on a blockchain, permissionlessness, no KYC.

As a side effect, the US government can export the dollar to the world while the petrodollar is retracting.

Once people get accustomed and comfortable using stablecoins, they will introduce the surveillance measures.

Cypherpunks have not failed.

Bitcoin was made and allowed to stay open-source so that the elites (parasites) can also have their own escape hatch.

They don’t want their fiat trillions to be taxed into oblivion to placate the struggling “useless” plebe masses being replaced by AI.

Bitcoin self-custody and privacy tools will be waiting for them.

Yeah they might be useful to protect yourself against Bitcoin’s exchange rate volatility.

Nobody’s perfect unless you have a massive bitcoin stack and you can afford to be 100% ideological with your actions.

But I often get a bit of an ick, a dirty feeling when I’m using USDC or USDT, like I’m doing something naughty..

At least to stop using stablecoins for payments.

There was a time when I was excited that I could pay a flight ticket or something with USDC if I couldn’t pay with bitcoin.

Now in that scenario, I would just rather pay with fiat than contribute to stablecoin adoption for payments.

Yeah thanks I noticed that but for some reason those archive links don’t open for me.. maybe a VPN issue

Was he named in the paywalled article above?

In the cyborg world the power of human eye contact evolved through millennia will be underestimated.

I don’t know when the lobbying starts for 2042 but maybe the 1750 BTC will have some lobbying power by then.

I suppose they’ve still been mining even though they sold?

Or Bhutan could lobby FIFA with their bitcoin stack to host the final in 2042.

Probably a lack of quality coaching knowledge.

It seems to be a snowball effect: talented kids choose cricket because it increases the odds of becoming a professional athlete.

Joint cup hosted by India and China would be interesting. And a few games played in Nepal in high altitude.

Now I know what those empty closets in Mallers’ room are for: transaction tax reports!

Xi Jinping, the most powerful man in the world, holds the cards

Almost certainly it would settle at some moving average at some point, so that would be a good entry point from a risk-reward perspective.

But if you’re busy living your life, securing a small bag right after the IPO could be a good left-curve/right-curve play.

Another researcher griped on X that “even asking for a code review” triggers Fable’s guardrails

Fable seems like a genius marketing gimmick by Anthropic if it can’t do much and often reverts to the previous model

Maybe the author of the article used some free tier LLM to generate the text

This reminds me of the old joke about the moron who loved getting kicked in the ass because it felt so good when it stopped.

Haha some Democrat politician should have tweeted this too

Many people in the world operate at least partly with the sociological perspective in mind, so I think Claude was trying to acknowledge that in order to better equip the user for the practical world.

Please withdraw all your assets by July 9th. After this, the federation will sweep the remaining Bitcoin. Any other assets or tokens on the network from then onwards will unfortunately be unrecoverable.

Only a month to recover coins? Aren’t these kind of things often recoverable a bit longer?

Imagine taking some time off from your ”crypto” for summer and then planning to come back mid-July to play with your Botanix garden?

Not your UTXO, not your coins.

Still, it did bring up both the arithmetic and sociological perspectives for the user to evaluate instead of going full woke.