From stuart.laforge@gmail.com Fri Jul 6 02:41:49 2018 From: Stuart LaForge To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Trade Volume Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:41:49 +0000 Message-ID: <172289284705.3881296.2611107088995205244.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7578974571159219774==" --===============7578974571159219774== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, April 12, 2013 9:57:55 PM UTC-7, Anu wrote: > > > > > 2013/4/13 Lodewijk andri de la porte > > >> Or a single person trading against himself a lot. >> >> The weak to strong hands is likely true though. But, weren't we already=20 >> screwed? I mean Bitcoin was never able to change the balance of wealth, th= e=20 >> rich buy Bitcoin and get rich in Bitcoin. So with Bitcoin we just remain=20 >> screwed.=20 >> =20 >> > =20 No. You are wrong. The world has changed forever. Bitcoin was=20 a technological djinni like the nuke. Now that it has been loosed in the=20 world. All the kings horses and all the kings men cannot get bitcoin back=20 into the bottle again. But you are also right: the king is forced into the=20 game now so he is both vulnerable and dangerous. =20 > =20 >> >> Indeed. It could have been different. I really tried hard for a different = > outcome. Gave presentations in Berlin at a number of African embassies, in = > Nigeria, in many other places. Wrote articles. Talked to the church even. I= =20 > guess I spent a fortune to make this a different outcome. I did move=20 > things, but certainly not in the ways I intended. Quite the opposite. I=20 > made very few friends with the poor but I am now well connected with the=20 > rich & powerful. With billionaires, congressmen, MPs, PMs, ministers,=20 > embassadors, cardinals. Fuck. This is indeed the golden rule: Those with=20 > the gold make the rules. > =20 =20 Yeah. That Steve Jobs guy had lots of gold. Too bad he didn't make any=20 rules against cancer with all that gold. What's with this rant=20 anyway? Did you lose money? Did you get robbed while slumming in the=20 hood? I just don't understand how you could be upset that spending money=20 made you more wealthy friends than it did poor friends. My problem is the=20 exact opposite. I would be happy to be your poor friend if that's all you=20 want. Or is this perhaps you declaring your side in the class war or=20 something? =20 > What I have learned: There is a reason poor people are poor and rich=20 > people are rich. There is a reason poor nations are poor and rich nations=20 > are rich. Much of it has to do with people refusing to think, letting=20 > others do the thinking for them. It has to do with religion, collectivism = > and the belief in authority. > =20 > =20 There are *lots* of reason why people are what they are. A lot of your=20 angst stems from thinking too *much*. About what was and what could be=20 rather than opening yourself up to the present moment in all its glory.=20 Lighten up. Enjoy your new found wealth. =20 =20 =20 =20 > =20 > Frankly, I see very little hope. This whole thing will go the Malthusian=20 > way. Humanity itself is a huge bubble and it will pop. > > Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem. I for one, plan to rage against=20 the dying of the light. Are you giving up? =20 =20 Stuart LaForge =20 --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "zs= -business" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an ema= il to zs-business+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to zs-business(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/zs-b= usiness/-/Zbm7kNwdr74J. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============7578974571159219774==--