How Bitcoin dies

How Bitcoin dies

This is by Mencius Moldbug, a coder who made off with enough options money just prior to the dot-com crash to basically be retired in the Bay Area, reading and writing. He's been bringing the wordy essays for almost a decade now on a wide variety of topics, but I'll save you some time: He's crazy. He's the very definition of Umberto Eco's lunatic, who says things with a certain superficial plausibility, but you know something is wrong with it, but it takes so much work to dig through the mess and find it out that you'll find you feel it was a waste of time to do so. His prolixity is a direct attempt to enhance this quality of this prose.He's got some weird definition of an ideal state based on corporate governance, he thinks black people are a social class defined by welfare queens and petty criminals, he thinks he eviscerated Dawkins by somehow agreeing with him. The leng...

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