Five years I’ve been asking this… Name someone who understood Bitcoin and then decided they wanted nothing to do with it.
Best I’ve got is Taleb, and I don’t think he ever understood it as a protocol- just a “hedge to inflation” and an “asset”. TheRoadToOneBTC (nprofile…3w8k) said Amir Taaki today, but he hasn’t rejected Bitcoin, he’s rejected who ended up running it. Not the same thing IMO.
Anyone got better? 1k sats if you have a better answer to Taleb.
mikebeatty / Mike Beatty
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