those occasions where the short-seller ends up winning offer invaluable signals on how society should better allocate resources. https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-is-the-biggest-big-short "… bitcoin should essentially be viewed as a massive short position against the entire financial system. (Even bigger than the “The Big Short.”) I’ve been shorting out capitalism since the early noughties - saying it " I’m shorting out capitalism ". Check it - its gold. If you’re long on cryptoanarchism, you are positioned to benefit if the present system of governance on which the entire world depends for poor security and inadequate well-being collapses. This was known from before 1991. Thirty years ago! Cypherpunks collapse governments. Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. Mike Huben puts it this way - the entire USG will merely go underground like the Bolshevik bank-robbers of 1905. Don’t laugh! https://theworld.com/~mhuben/cypher.html “… What he misses is that his system, if tolerated, would merely force government to operate secretly rather than openly…” JIM foresaw this - Part Six https://cryptome.org/jdb/ap.htm Fully recognizing this, another (and far more credible) person thought a while, and in a proud revelation suggested that one way that the establishment would “fight back” is to convert to a government that is based on fully decentralized authority …" No need for any anarchists to ever break into a sweat providing best-practice Swedish-style socialist benefits to the masses. That’s the last desperate ploy of todays neo-liberal, nation-states. As if that will save them! It may buy them enough time to get to CYPHERPUNK 2027 - IF ( big IF) they are lucky! ECONOMIC Girly-men clutch their pearls and make a beeline for the fainting-couch at first mention of revolution. But that " Big Short " movie only covered a minor recession. The Spanish Civil war took place during the Great Depression. Those anarchists were not afraid of economic ruins. They carried a new-world-order in their hearts. And now that dream is fast becoming a globalized reality! WELCOME to the WORLD-WIDE ANARCHIST REVOLUTION!