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Bitcoin is the catalyst - not the product
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/bitcoin-is-back-above-50000-…

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Peter Thiel's cocksucker blues
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://theworld.com/~mhuben/mason.html The Economics department of George Mason University has been strongly shaped by tens of millions of dollars of donations by the libertarian Koch Foundations of the billionaire Koch brothers

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German chancellor protests Austrian fascism
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Michael Burleigh called Adolph Hitlers complaint about Dolfuss, " a rare case of Hitler taking the moral high ground ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss Hayek was beaten like a drum by Keynes before completely disgracing himself in Latin America. He's like the Donald Trump of economics. https://crookedtimber.org/2013/06/25/the-hayek-pinochet-connection-a-second…

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Anarchism works in practice . . .
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

But it will never work in libertarian theory. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney.org/~hal/ Politics Unlike many early Cypherpunks, I never viewed cryptography as a gateway to a libertarian society .. ." https://libcom.org/library/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval

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Austrian economics considered harmful
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

In practice this discredited and bankrupt form of quack economics has aided Dolfuss style fascism in Austria ( Mises ) and Pinochet in Chile ( Hayek ) Murray Rothbard told these idiots they could never be anarchists https://mises.org/library/are-libertarians-anarchists They are as deaf as the are dumb. Austro-libertarian Kochsucker economics OR crypto-anarchy. Choose one.

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Keep the corpse of Uncle Sam propped up with bullshit
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/bitcoin-and-the-us-fiscal-r… Bitcoin represents an enormous strategic opportunity for Americans and the United States as a whole. With the right legal infrastructure, the currency and its underlying technology can become the next great driver of American growth. While the 21st-century monetary order will look very different from that of the 20th, bitcoin can help America maintain its economic leadership for decades to come. AVIK ROY

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GLEPSTEIN - conjoined twins
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Jim Epstein Retweeted Alex Gladstein @gladstein · Oct 14 . . ." Not seeing much take up of your horseshit narrative, Gleppers. And does everyone in the human-rights foundation know what a lying cunt you are yet?

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Puh-leeze don' throw me in dat sanctions briar-patch, Massa Fox
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

OH LORDY, LORDY NO! https://decrypt.co/83779/digital-assets-weaken-us-sanctions-regime-treasury… USA " Govcorp ' is a paper-tiger believed in by idiots ( Hi Gramps, BS, Karly )

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Cold-beer, strong crypto and REALPOLITIK
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Cryptocurrency is right-republican leaning by origin and becomes more democratic-socialist leaning by popularity and usage. Just as holding a sovereign accountable used to be the prerogative of barons - till it was increasingly democratized. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/18/crypto-is-too-big-for-partisan-p… Cryptoanarchy is also bigger than any crypto-currency or any collective of republics &/or democracies / theocracies /corporate entities. We're better than any earthly power since 2010. Its time they groveled before us. There's no shame in losing to a superior foe.

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Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Its time cypherpunks dropped Jim Bell like a hot rock - and its time humanity moved to Milky Way Galaxy years* - the Xtian calendar needs to go the way of the Julian. *The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. One is 230 million years. ... The galactic year provides a conveniently usable unit for depicting cosmic and geological time periods together

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