Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@joshgans But here’s a point of confusion — suppose BTC fully displaces gold among cranks and increases in price 10-fold to equal the “market cap” of gold. Is that a success for BTC bulls (because they got rich) or a failure (because gold is actually dumb)? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 25, 2021 Hibernated

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A while back, I understood Bitcoin enthusiasts to be making very strong claims about the eventual replacement of fiat currency by intrinsically scarce digital money and I felt strongly that was wrong. Today I don’t know what we’re debating exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 25, 2021 Hibernated

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@lastpositivist Definitely tried to troll a grad student TA with this argument 20 years ago — if we all copied you and stopped eating meat wouldn’t that be like a cow genocide? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 25, 2021 Hibernated