Bitcoin Tech Talk #337
Interesting Stuff
Cyclical History - History tends to be seen by a certain type of person as always moving from worse to better and not really ever regressing. This article puts a kibosh to those sentiments, showing that collapse can and does happen on a frighteningly regular basis. Regression takes over when people do stupid things and the incentives are misaligned. I would say that fiat money is very much like that right now.
War and Politics - The article is about the role of intelligence in war and how information usage has become more and more complex as the sources of information have diversified and digitized. The most interesting part of the article for me was about the political ends of war and how that can’t be solved by technology. No matter how good the intelligence and information quality, unless the goals of a war are clear and the finish line clearly demarcated, war is in essence futile. I suspect that this lack of goals and ends for modern warfare, especially wars of global dollar dominance that the US is engaged in, is a result of the plentitude of fiat money.
Legacy Media Bought with Ads - What a long read on what changed in the legacy media since 2018. In a revealing look, the ratings on the cable news don’t merit the insane cost of ads on those networks. They are all bought by the companies that advertise on them and in effect the Overton window is now controlled by those that fund them. The few people that watch the legacy TV news channels trend much older and their votes are being bought with propaganda. Thankfully, this can’t last much longer as the influential people that anyone under 50 listens to are no longer in legacy media and they’re not easily bought.
What I'm up to
Fighting Fiat - I did a podcast with BitCorner, which is a Spanish language podcast where we talked about a lot of things. The main points of discussion were the fiat system, CBDCs and taking advantage of the opportunities that Bitcoin gives. I also explained why getting out of fiat totally changed my life.
Chiang Mai Meetup - I’ll be doing some sort of steak dinner with Bitcoiners in Chiang Mai. The details aren’t set, but it’ll be April 3, 4 or 5. I’ve really enjoyed meeting Bitcoiners and hanging out with them in this region and will do a good bit of that in the next month.
Taipei and Seoul Meetup - I’ll be traveling to both places in April and I’ll be at their respective meetups. I met a lot of the members of those communities during the Vietnam Lightning conference and we’re going to try to get more Bitcoin-only content in both places.
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