Read_918 - Bitcoin is a Lie
By Guy Swann
Aired Dec 3, 2025 · 56m · Last boosted Dec 7, 2025
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"Bitcoin will fail. Because it is a lie... Because it claims truths that cannot be. That trust is defect. That property is virtue. That law, shared meaning should not supervene... I used to see value. Now I see a void. An emptiness where meaning should be." ~ Mike Brock What happens when someone claims Bitcoin is designed for enemies and breeds cruelty? I dive deep into an article arguing Bitcoin promotes antisocial behavior and destroys cooperation, then break down why this fundamentally misunderstands both game theory and what "Bitcoin is for enemies" actually means. Is...
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Mike Brock doesn’t read Ayn Rand and it shows. We need a Guy Swann reading of Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead. Maybe he will get it through podcasts?
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This part about the game theory was super fucking ridiculous. It looks like he randomly picked some game theory thought experiments on Wikipedia to argue Bitcoiners pretend to care about game theory to pretend their money is "scientific" rather than "ideological." Satoshi describes the 51% attack using the Gambler's Ruin problem, not the Prisoners Dilemma. I read that yesterday and was like..What the hell is this gu…
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Sounds like he heard @npub1hk0tv47zt… bring up Carl Shmitt and lost his mind about FaShIsM!!i! When in doubt, assume liberals are hysterical. That said, at least he read some Shmitt, or at least the AI summary...