₿radley Rettler @rettlerb Twitter profile

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We ( @resistancemoney and @craigwarmke and I) believe *Resistance Money* is really, really good. We think that people who start reading it will want to keep reading it. So we’re giving away the first chapter FREE. Give this link to anyone:

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@freganmitts I once had success by instructing the students to believe that there was a ravenous lion in the room, and then asking why they weren't running out the door. Was it that they couldn't choose to believe the ravenous lion was there, or that they weren't scared of it?

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500 people don’t understand CoinJoin, UTXOs, and #Bitcoin .

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@ProjectLincoln When he is gone they will try to shove this support under the rug and be the fiscally and socially Conservative party again. We must never forget what they are willing to tolerate to remain in power. #LincolnVoter

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This does not sound like someone who understands Bitcoin. Nor does it sound like someone who wrote the words he’s speaking.

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The year is 2140. ETH is the global currency. Every 12 seconds, someone with lots of ETH gets more ETH. The people with little ETH have to work to earn more ETH; those with a lot of ETH get more for free. The socioeconomic divide has never been worse. Yet.

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The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming is now running a #Bitcoin full node with @getumbrel .

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Does this seem like someone who understands #Bitcoin ?

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ANNOUNCEMENT: The University of Wyoming has established the UW Bitcoin Research Institute. The BRI aims to produce high-quality peer-reviewed publications about bitcoin from all academic disciplines. First act: hiring @resistancemoney ! 1/

Bitcoin Research Institute

The homepage of the Bitcoin Research Institute at the University of Wyoming.

www.uwyo.edu

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@rettlerb

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I'm a Warren supporter and donor. I'm also pro- #Bitcoin . Retweet if you think Senator Warren and I should have a conversation about how Bitcoin helps level the playing field for the poor and unbanked.

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

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Bitcoin requires so much computing activity that it eats up more energy than entire countries. One of the easiest and least disruptive things we can do to fight the #ClimateCrisis is to crack down on environmentally wasteful cryptocurrencies.

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A $30 overdraft fee is a half day of work at the federal minimum wage. There are no overdraft fees in #Bitcoin .

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Progressives, welcome to #Bitcoin ! Bitcoin is an inclusive monetary and savings technology that resists control by oligarchs. As such, it fits nicely into the progressive worldview. In this thread, I'm collecting pro-Bitcoin essays by progressives. (DM me more of them!)

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If transactions on the lightning network are not #bitcoin transactions, then transactions on the Visa network are not US dollar transactions.

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I usually tweet about #Bitcoin . But here’s why I’m an #ETH maxi👇

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@dcexaminer The Department of Defense administers 17 different vaccines, as outlined in the Joint Instruction on Immunizations and Chemoprophylaxis, for the prevention of infectious diseases among military personnel. Weird that he had no problem with that until now.

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This is literally how the #Bitcoin network operates.

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I miss the old age of investing, when only wealthy old white men were allowed to do it. That was nice and safe. Especially for them.

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My monthly energy bill is $150. #Bitcoin transaction fees yesterday were $1.60. If a single #Bitcoin transaction really consumed "as much energy as a US household in a month", fees would be higher. This should be obvious.

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@TheEconomist And the ability of Russian dissidents, Hong Kong protestors, Afghan women entrepreneurs, and anyone resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism. I’m sure you weigh all that in the article.

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Interesting to note that Congressional witness who is advocating for Proof of Stake, @AriJuels , is the Chief Scientist at a company (Chainlink) that runs a Proof of Stake Coin ($LINK), and that his affiliation with Chainlink was not disclosed at the beginning of the hearing.

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@rettlerb

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Some thoughts on @nntaleb 's 6-page Bitcoin paper, available here: Let's start with the conclusion. "There is no evidence we are getting a great technology" with Bitcoin or blockchain. Does the argument support this conclusion? I think not. 1/23

Taleb - Bitcoin_Currencies_and_Bubbles.pdf

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

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This is wild. HSBC aided drug cartels in laundering 881 BILLION United States dollars. The US dollar is for criminals.

HSBC Holdings Plc. and HSBC Bank USA N.A. Admit to Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations,...

HSBC Holdings plc (HSBC Group) – a United Kingdom corporation headquartered in London – and HSBC Bank USA N.A. (HSBC Bank USA) (together, HSBC) – a federally chartered banking corporation headquart...

www.justice.gov

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@ChrisMattson11 Translation: “we don’t take care of our employees so we’re making you do it.” I wouldn’t go back.

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@gladstein @SudanHODL @steve_hanke @CoinATMRadar Dude thinks they’re cashing out legal tender with an ATM at 8% instead of spending it at a merchant for 0%.

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I just got tenure! The purpose of tenure is to protect academic freedom, and let professors take risks and explore areas of research outside the mainstream. For me right now, that's economic justice and the role I think #Bitcoin can play in bringing it about.

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Homes should not be investments. I would love to see #Bitcoin take over the store of value portion of real estate's value, so that homes can be for living in, for people who need them.

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@davidaxelrod

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This speculation is driving up housing prices, forcing actual home buyers out of the market. Shouldn't states consider slapping a hefty additional tax on non-owner occupied housing sales?

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Crypto owners are young and poor and racially diverse. @SenWarren ’s anti-crypto army are old and rich and bank lobbyists. Disheartening to watch her alienate her base for people she claims to fight against. I voted for her and donated to her; I can’t see doing either again.

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@rettlerb

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Chic-Fil-A CEO publishes op-Ed calling for McDonald’s to consider a move away from hamburgers.

Chris Larsen

@chrislarsensf

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Last year, I published an op-ed calling for Bitcoin to consider a move away from PoW to a low energy validation method. Today, I’d like to share an update on how my thinking has evolved on this front.

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Food waste causes 8% of global carbon emissions, compared to Bitcoin's 0.14%. Let's end food waste.

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@rettlerb

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@RealNatashaChe Same with an art NFT where the artwork is destroyed? Same with a real estate NFT where the building burns down? I’m having a hard time understanding.

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@rettlerb

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The @nytimes failing to rescind their invite to SBF is making me look very prescient. Share this widely! They should be ashamed. And follow @btcpolicyorg , who supported me in the writing of it.

Hard on Bitcoin, Soft on Crypto Crime: A Case Study of the New York Times

BPI Fellow Bradley Rettler exposes the New York Times' pattern of tough-on-bitcoin, easy-on-crypto coverage.

www.btcpolicy.org

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@rettlerb

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Some people start telling the story of bitcoin with the history of money. Another way is to start telling the story of bitcoin with beginning of the internet and the problems of surveillance and privacy breaches. Both are right, but we don't hear the second as often.

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@rettlerb

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Bitcoin is anti-authoritarian money. Trump is an aspiring authoritarian. I hope nobody thinks he’s actually going to keep any promises he makes if he gets power.

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@fugitivemama @jonfavs Imagine thinking that Trump repeatedly lying about the virus and his own attitude towards it counts as "destroying" anyone. Trump supporters really hold him to absolutely no standards at all.

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So I’ve got a bunch of private censorship-resistant money stored in an unhosted self-custody wallet and I’m pretty sure the makers of the wallet don’t have a money-transmitting license. Should I be worried? Pic related.

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@rettlerb

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Firmly on team @LynAldenContact . She is top 0.001% at thinking, and top 0.001% at explaining her thoughts

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@rettlerb

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This paper about #Bitcoin remittances (i) doesn't mention #LightningNetwork , which they're using and costs pennies, and (ii) assumes people use ATMs rather than an app exchange or paying in Bitcoin. I was surprised it was published, but then I noticed Prof Hanke is the editor...

Steve Hanke

@steve_hanke

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Pres. Bukele's assertion that sending & receiving remittances in #ElSalvador via #Bitcoin is cheaper than traditional methods is FALSE. Bukele is delusional. Read about Bukele's Bitcoin BLUNDER in the @JohnsHopkins Studies in Applied Economics Series:

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Hot take: @mcuban actually understands #Bitcoin better than most Bitcoin critics.

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@greenpeaceusa Turning the waste methane into anything at all would do nothing to reduce fossil fuel consumption. So no current energy users should convert to using waste methane? Terrible argument.

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Unless, you know, you want to learn about Bitcoin.

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Ready for tomorrow's fireworks?!

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A lot of large and important institutions bought #bitcoin over the summer. They will announce their purchases between September 7 and November 19. Enjoy the fireworks.

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when it comes to coffee. First, Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee. It’s where coffee was discovered. It’s been there so long that the varietal is “heirloom”. Basically, “we have no idea because it’s unique to Ethiopia”.

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Empty flights are on track to consume all the world’s energy by 2030, according to my model.

Thousands of Planes Are Flying Empty and No One Can Stop Them

A pre-pandemic policy on airport usage is pressuring airlines to keep "ghost flights" in the air. The climate impact is massive.

www.wired.com

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The point about DOGE that people miss is that Mark Cuban owns DOGE, and he’s a cool guy. And if you buy DOGE, you can be a cool down-to-earth billionaire like Mark Cuban. You will also make Mark Cuban more wealthy. Which makes it a community anyone can join and enjoy.

Mark Cuban

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The point about DOGE that people miss is that DOGE's imperfections and simplicity are it's greatest strengths. You can only use it to do 2 things: Spend It or HODL It. Both are easy to understand. And it's cheap to buy. Which makes it a community anyone can join and enjoy.

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Bitcoin is converting methane emissions to something 40x less harmful for the environment — while securing a money that helps in the fight against authoritarianism. @greenpeaceusa is fighting against that, with no plan for methane emissions.

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@rettlerb

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In philosophy, when someone asks for comments on a paper, they *want* devastating objections so they can incorporate responses before submitting their paper. This is the spirit in which I offered comments on @nntaleb 's paper. He responded in a slightly different spirit.

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@rettlerb

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I have a PhD in philosophy. I’m not pro-Bitcoin because of one meme. And it’s more than a bit insulting to suggest that I’ve been “tricked”, and then falsely ascribe reasons to me.

Brett Scott

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Some people got upset with me for calling Bitcoin's monetary story right-wing, incl. @Gladstein , who believes there's a growing wave of progressive Bitcoiners. He's right. Ever more lefties are tricked into going conservative via BTC. To learn why, see

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@rettlerb

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I once submitted an op-ed to the NYT going through each of their op-eds on bitcoin and pointing out factual errors. They declined to publish it.

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Reminder: the NYT has a history of spreading misinformation about bitcoin.

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@rettlerb

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My book *RESISTANCE MONEY: A Philosophical Case for #Bitcoin * starts shipping tomorrow! Like and retweet this post; I'll be randomly selecting two winners to send a free copy of the paperback. (Must follow me and be willing to DM me a physical address.)

Resistance Money

www.amazon.com

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@tante You: conceptually, it can’t work. Lightning Network: *actually working*

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"Alice uses her smartphone to scan the barcode on display. Her smartphone shows a payment of 0.0150 BTC to Bob’s Cafe." -- @aantonop , *Mastering Bitcoin* Alice bought a $610 cup of coffee. Andreas was so early.

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The on-chain data is telling me that the interesting thing about Bitcoin is not the price, but the monetary policy, distributed governance, financial inclusion, privacy, and censorship-resistance.

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@rettlerb

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Not many know this, but we had to promise to sell 1,000 copies of Resistance Money by Jan 1 to get our publisher to lower the price from $54 to $29 -- if we failed, we were on the hook. We bet on ourselves, and you. That bet has paid off. From the bottom of my heart: thanks!

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Just a friendly reminder that Ayn Rand accepted $50k (in today's dollars) worth of government assistance and the Ayn Rand Institute applied for (and received) around $1,000,000 in PPP loans from the government that they never paid back.

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Final settlement (bitcoin) vs third-layer payments (Visa). Alex de Vries knows this is an illegitimate comparison. He doesn’t care. Bitcoin’s work isn’t just for transactions. Every bit of work secures the whole $700 billion network. Alex de Vries knows this. He doesn’t care.

Digiconomist

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1 VISA transaction consumes about 1.5 Wh of electricity on average. The average energy use per Bitcoin transaction is 2258 kWh. A BTC transaction requires roughly 1.5 million times the same amount of electrical energy; enough to power a single US household for 2.5 months.

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@rettlerb

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@gladstein Tomorrow Newsweek is publishing a positive Bitcoin article, written by myself and @resistancemoney . Trying to skew that ratio.

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@rettlerb

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Taleb has now responded to me three times without *ever* addressing the substance or explaining where my comments go wrong — just childish insults.

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@rettlerb

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I've now read the tech bros' anti-crypto letter. tl;dr When you're writing an essay, you need to support your claims -- the bolder the claim, the more support needed. This letter is long on bold claims and short on support. In short, it's shockingly bad. A 🧵 1/24

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If gold was an inflation hedge, so would be copper, aluminum, tin, and the other gazillion metals out there, which in itself debunks the scarcity fallacy and the role of metal as an inflation hedge. Oh, gold has features those others don’t, you say? Welcome to the conversation.

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For @BitcoinMagazine , I evaluated @steve_hanke 's argument. "If we care about believing true things..., we should go out looking for evidence that we’re wrong and evaluate it with the desire of getting to the truth -- not with the desire of being right."

On Confidently Misunderstanding Bitcoin: A Response To Steve Hanke

The arguments against cryptocurrencies did not accurately reflect current data nor common understanding of terms.

bitcoinmagazine.com

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@PeterMcCormack @saifedean I said to someone else that vegetables have a lot of vitamins that are hard to get from meat.

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@jacobin Bitcoin is used to evade authoritarian governments in places like Turkey and Russia, and by poor people to store value in places where currencies are inflating and to work around predatory lenders. Bitcoin mitigates economic injustice.

The rich get richer, the poor get Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a buzzword and some argue it’s a scam. But with Elon Musk’s Tesla recently investing $1.5 billion into the cryptocurrency and with the Mayor of Miami considering giving city employees the...

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@rettlerb

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I'm a philosophy professor at the University of Wyoming, working mostly on #Bitcoin and #cryptocurrencies these days. I also work in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. But chances are, if you're reading this, you're here for the Bitcoin. So, here's some of what I've done:

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@rettlerb

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A quick response to Paul Krugman. In his essay, Paul Krugman investigates "the strange alliance of crypto and MAGA believers". It's important to note, first, that Donald Trump is anti-crypto. He called Bitcoin "a scam against the dollar". 1/10

Opinion | The Strange Alliance of Crypto and MAGA Believers (Published 2022)

Crusading for God, family … and Bitcoin?

www.nytimes.com

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Wouldn’t it be great if a home was something you lived in and not something you stored value in?

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He also says Bitcoin transactions are slower than credit cards. But this is comparing a final settlement network (on-chain Bitcoin) to a third-layer network (Visa). Taleb seems to be unaware of Lightning Network, where transactions cost less than a penny and are instantaneous. 6/

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💯 You absolutely can get better at reasoning. I’ll occasionally get emails from students years after they take Critical Thinking telling me they’d just applied something from the class like Bayes’ Theorem or expected utility, or noticed an error they made like confirmation bias

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I had a middle school class specifically on critical thinking. It's not going to turn everyone into Socrates, but applied critical thinking is indeed a teachable skill that can be leveled up from a given starting point.

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Fascinating look at how ChatGPT “reasons”.

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Why does chatGPT make up fake academic papers? By now, we know that the chatbot notoriously invents fake academic references. E.g. its answer to the most cited economics paper is completely made-up (see image). But why? And how does it make them? A THREAD (1/n) 🧵

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Today #Bitcoin mining will be debated in the @HouseFloor @EnergyCommerce Committee. I wonder whether @HouseDemocrats and @HouseGOP and Chair @FrankPallone know that their memo has (at least) 12 false or misleading statements. Here they are, and why they're wrong. 👇 1/20

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@matthewstoller I'm an Elizabeth Warren supporter and pro-Bitcoin. We pay our taxes, and don't launder money. The problem with this part of the bill is that it shows no understand of how cryptocurrencies work. Miners and nodes are simply unable to fill out a 1099 for every transaction.

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We have submitted the revised version of to our editor. 250 pages, 12 chapters, 450 footnotes, 650 works cited. I am so proud of it. Can’t wait for y’all to get to read it.

Resistance Money

Bitcoin is resistance money, empowering its users to resist authoritarians, inflation, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion.

www.resistance.money

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Washed Ethiopian coffee is my favorite coffee. Naturally processed Ethiopian coffee is my second favorite. Coffee from everywhere else follows. 99% of the coffee I buy is Ethiopian. I’m an #ETH maxi.

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Here are my responses to the @nytimes op-eds on #bitcoin from @BCAppelbaum , @paulkrugman , and @EswarSPrasad . Written for @btcpolicyorg . Ask and ye shall receive, @AlyseKilleen and @thetrocro !

Hard on Bitcoin, Soft on Crypto Crime: A Case Study of the New York Times

BPI Fellow Bradley Rettler exposes the New York Times' pattern of tough-on-bitcoin, easy-on-crypto coverage.

www.btcpolicy.org

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You don’t get to define “the” bitcoin ethos. You run your node; I’ll run mine.

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Today I learned that @BitcoinMagazine has Marxists contributing to it. Not a great look and doesn’t bode well for keeping the Bitcoin ethos alive and well.

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#Bitcoin is taking money away from Western Union and giving it to the people of El Salvador.

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@ShellenbergerMD Are you against physical cash, too? US $100 bills are 333x-800x more likely to be involved in criminal activity than bitcoin, according to the United Nations.

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“Can I take your biometric data? I’ll give you $50. Sorry, not $50 — $50 worth of a cryptocurrency I invented. No? Okay, I’ll get the biometric data of the people who need the money more.” -Worldcoin

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@InterstellarBit Sounds like bitcoin takes the good parts of progressivism and the good parts of conservatism.

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Seńor Cabrera now has 3 extra hours each week to spend in leisure, or to work and make more money, or to do whatever he wants. Paying his bills with Bitcoin gives him his time back.

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Dave Troy is being used to advance a plan to increase wealth inequality and spy on citizens. An unelected private entity shouldn’t have control over the money supply — the people should. Dave Troy needs to read some Iris Marion Young.

Dave Troy

@davetroy

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The Human Rights Foundation @HRF is being used to advance a plan to crash the global economy and drive assets into cryptocurrencies. This is a pump and dump on a global scale, hiding behind “human rights” with positions functionally indistinguishable from the John Birch Society.

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I’ve been chosen to give a Faculty Senate Speaker Series talk on how bitcoin serves as resistance money and can help bring about justice for marginalized people and communities.

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This explains Krugman's fundamental mistake. Bitcoin isn't MAGA. It's an anti-establishment -- the political establishment as well as the corporate one. Bitcoin helps ALL people -- on the left and right -- elude those they distrust. Bitcoin is . 10/10

Resistance Money

Bitcoin is resistance money, empowering its users to resist authoritarians, inflation, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion.

www.resistance.money

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He goes off the rails in tweet #3 , when he assumes that if two groups agree about X, then they agree about everything and so anything that one group believes can be held against the other group. (Presumably he doesn’t actually believe this, since he agrees with Putin about BTC.)

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1/There are people who are genuinely trying to talk intelligently about cryptocurrencies, but can’t because they don’t have historical background. This thread tries to correct that by suggesting required reading. First, it’s necessary to know what problem it attempts to solve.

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"Money without State" has been published online! It was great to work on this with @resistancemoney and @craigwarmke , chatting weekly on Zoom about the most interesting aspects of #Bitcoin .

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@GravelInstitute How many pro-Bitcoin progressives did you talk to before you made this video? How many articles did you read about Bitcoin's use in developing countries? Only the most privileged could see Bitcoin solely as an investment and refuse to consider people in other situations.

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#Bitcoin is the digital money for a free world. To invest in it is to invest in humanity. From @resistancemoney and me.

Governments Should Invest in the Bitcoin Network

Bitcoin provides an important alternative to centrally controlled Russian, Chinese, or U.S. digital money.

www.newsweek.com

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@rettlerb

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@Lee4ever2 @ProjectLincoln My parents are Republican. And I think life begins at conception. But now I favor free contraception, contraceptive education, free prenatal and delivery and postpartum healthcare, paid family leave, affordable childcare, etc as ways of reducing abortion. Not “make it illegal”.

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@rettlerb

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Next, Taleb asserts that "transactions in Bitcoin are considerably more expensive than wire transfers". This is not true of even on-chain transactions, which are currently USD$4.75; my bank charges $30 for a wire transfer. 5/

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@rettlerb

2 years

Hey @CleanUpBitcoin and @greenpeaceusa : here you go. The code is changed. Now stop telling bitcoin to change the code and start convincing people this thing is better than bitcoin.

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My DMs are blowing up and I love it. Clearly the Bitcoin Research Institute was an idea whose time had come.

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@rettlerb

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If you're a scholar and you want to be involved, my DMs are open! If you're a journalist and you want to learn more, my DMs are open! If you want to support our work, you can do so here: /end

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@rettlerb

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@FrappuccinoSlim @GoodwinMJ Touché. But certain parts of life were better before all the money flowed to like twelve people.

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@rettlerb

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I'm making a HUGE announcement for anyone interested in better academic research about bitcoin.

Bitcoin Policy Institute

@btcpolicyorg

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Saturday July 27th from 10:15-10:30am BPI fellow, @rettlerb will take to the genesis stage to discuss the #bitcoin research institute.

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@greenpeaceusa Myth: @greenpeaceusa is campaigning against PoW for purely environmental reasons. Fact: @greenpeaceusa accepted $5 million from the CEO of a crypto token (XRP) who sees #bitcoin as competition because bitcoin is an inclusive, decentralized, censorship-resistant digital currency.

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@rettlerb

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@SenJohnBarrasso Do you think that Presidents should be able to lie about elections and incite violence against Congress and the Vice President with impunity? If not, what do you suggest the penalty should be?

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@rettlerb

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@greenpeaceusa I’m going to install solar panels and subsidize the cost by using the excess energy to mine bitcoin, which will also drive out miners using fossil fuels.

Greening Bitcoin With Incentive Offsets

www.resistance.money

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@rettlerb

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@DigiEconomist The computations secure a network worth $700,000,000,000 that’s censorship-resistant and inclusive and democratic and incorruptible. You may be lucky enough not to need that, but billions of people do. To say it’s “useless” is to treat them as not mattering. They matter.

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@rettlerb

3 years

When an authoritarian regime dislikes something, it's worth looking more closely at that thing.

Pat Toomey (US Sen. ret.)

@SenToomey

3 years

China’s authoritarian crackdown on crypto, including #Bitcoin , is a big opportunity for the U.S. It’s also a reminder of our huge structural advantage over China.

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Imagine hating #Bitcoin /crypto so much that you ignore the desires of billions of people around the world who are financially and politically much worse off than you, and you lecture everyone about how Bitcoin doesn't do what they're literally already using it to do.

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@rettlerb

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@greenpeaceusa The fact that you haven't hired anyone to change the code is proof that you don't care enough about the code being changed. Bitcoin is open source. Copy and paste the code, change the parts you don't like, and release it. Mission accomplished!

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@rettlerb

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I will not be tweeting about $MSTR or Bitcoin ETFs. I have no professional opinion about them, except the obvious — they are not resistance money. Bitcoin is professionally (ie philosophically) interesting because it’s resistance money. So, I’ll keep tweeting about bitcoin.

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