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[ImThour]

The first ever post on Reddit about Bitcoin was downvoted.
Source: https://twitter.com/BTC_Archive/status/1376271719011397634/photo/1

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[CoinCube]

Economist, 2 years ago...

A reporter from The Economist wanted to interview me about the Thailand thing. This headline re-assures me that I made the right decision to turn them down.

At this point any reporter in the MSM wanting to cover the story is looking to attack us. No reporter's going to write a feel good story about how we got away and started over somewhere else.

Perhaps some of the alternative media might offer better prospects.
Periodicals critical of communism like the Epoch Times spring to mind.

[El duderino_]

[JayJuanGee]

[edited out]

The problem with Laura is that, by the time she becomes "more knowledgeable about Bitcoin", it will be "far too expensive" for her, and she won't buy... Of course, if she considers Bitcoin to be "far too expensive", it means that she still doesn't get it... It's OK though, some day she will get it, as will most current nocoiners.

As for being objective while HoDLing, I fully agree with what you've posted. I believe that being a Bitcoin HoDLer does not take away one's ability to criticize it. If anything, as far as I'm concerned at least, I feel that being a Bitcoin HoDLer makes me a harder Bitcoin critic. Maybe it's a personal thing, but I'm always very critical of the stuff I own, theories I agree with, etc. I want them to be put to the test and any weaknesses exposed. So, as a Bitcoin HoDLer, I say to all who want to attack Bitcoin: "Bring it on! Come and get it, and if you manage to do it I'm ready to change my viewpoint on cryptocurrencies!"

For sure there is some value that comes from actively participating in something that allows a person to both understand the thing better but also attempt to understand it better by seeing some aspects of the matter that would not be so easily seen without some kind of active participation (or stake in the game).  

[Elwar]

Economist, 2 years ago...

A reporter from The Economist wanted to interview me about the Thailand thing. This headline re-assures me that I made the right decision to turn them down.

At this point any reporter in the MSM wanting to cover the story is looking to attack us. No reporter's going to write a feel good story about how we got away and started over somewhere else.

Perhaps some of the alternative media might offer better prospects.
Periodicals critical of communism like the Epoch Times spring to mind.

Ya, I won't need to do any interviews until the book comes out. Still working on it.

We get requests for interviews all the time and the ones that aren't MSM I turn over to the CEO of Ocean Builders so he can talk about the cool tech of the SeaPods and not need to bring up politics. We're just building houseboats, no need to bring up politics.

One interesting tidbit, while I was on the run giving interviews, one of the reporters questions wanted me to comment on Trump. Their obsession over Trump was so intense that they wanted to somehow figure out a way to bash Trump in a story about some dude fleeing the Thai navy. I just responded focusing on the fact that Trump was a real estate investor and how our floating home project would have been great for the Thai economy. They definitely didn't use that answer in their article.

[Richy_T]

Bears not going down without a fight.

[d_eddie]

Bears still try to put up a fight because know their days are not counted.

Their HOURS are! 

[AlcoHoDL]

[...]

By the way, I did listen to that podcast between Laura Shin and Saylor in the end of January when it came out (here's a link if peeps want to listen to the whole 1 hour and a half thingie), and sure Saylor did end up lecturing Laura a bit in regards to some of her seemingly trader rather than HODLer thinking.. so there were some seemingly hostile times during that interview, and maybe it did kind of show that Laura might have been under-appreciating the power and importance of bitcoin through her ongoing attempts at journalistic objectivism.

[...]

I hadn't listened or watched that interview, thanks for that link. Here's the YouTube video:

Why Bitcoin Now: Michael Saylor on the Best Way for Companies to Buy Bitcoin - Ep.209

I found Saylor was his usual entertaining self, trying to simplify the various concepts, and making them more digestible for Laura and the Bitcoin newbies in the audience—which is a good thing, and Saylor is pretty good at it. I think he was a bit repetitive at times, reiterating the "thermodynamically sound monetary network" line, and the points about electricity, running water and Venezuela. He did come out as trying to persuade her to a degree. "And, by the way...this", "and, by the way...that"...

Laura came out as the happy Bitcoin semi-noob, with a pinch of evilness, when she kept mentioning about "Bitcoin reaching a bubble/peak", "when to sell", and overly laughing at times. She has a pleasant personality, I like her. I didn't get the impression that she has a deeper anti-Bitcoin agenda or anything like that, but rather, that she has the typical reservations and skepticism that anyone trained in the traditional monetary system would have. To her, the crypto space is just a new, hot thing that will increase her exposure and audience, will add more Twitter followers and viewers/listeners to her interviews and podcasts, but I don't think she really fully grasps the gravity and importance of Bitcoin and how it will transform the monetary system in the near future.

It's always great to listen and watch Saylor educating the masses about Bitcoin. In retrospect, a careful listener could have even guessed Tesla's $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment announcement that came about 10 days later. I believe this interview will forever haunt Laura Shin, when the time comes when she will see in awe and disbelief that Bitcoin has exceeded $10 trillion market cap, and Apple, Google and most of the big players have bought in.

[2GOOD]

Got bored so watched this again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo

One of my all time favorite
Yesterday I got bored too and watched this 10yr old infographic - brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo

About the poll: 60k

[Richy_T]

For sure there is some value that comes from actively participating in something that allows a person to both understand the thing better but also attempt to understand it better by seeing some aspects of the matter that would not be so easily seen without some kind of active participation (or stake in the game).  

For me, it gave me astounding clarity as to the arbitrariness and emptiness of fiat. I knew it intellectually anyway but participating in bitcoin made me, in the parlance of geeks, "grok" it.

[dragonvslinux]

Nice to see WO bulls as bullish as ever 

I came here just to check on sentiment while Bitcoin moves sideways. All good by looks of it then, based on the poll at least

I'll be back active in this thread at the end of the year at $$$,$$$ Bitcoin, looking forward to it.

No TA, no point. Uptrend is still uptrend. Just flipping altcoins for satoshis instead now   

[somac.]

Did she actually ever do something for Amazon or was she indeed just "an investor"?

It reminds me of the Eddie Murphy Raw skit of a wife making a dollar and then wanting half of $50 million in a divorce.

Fuck that shit.
The girlfriend I have now wants a prenup because she knows I will never go along with ridiculous 50% figures if we were to marry and then divorce.

Yeah, she did do a lot to get Amazon where it is today. In fact, she is actually a co-founder and absolutely deserves her share of the fortune. Wiki gives a good summary:

In 1993, Scott and Bezos were married, and in 1994, they both left D. E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and started Amazon. Scott was one of Amazon's first employees, and was heavily involved in Amazon's early days, working on the company's name, business plan, accounts and shipping early orders.[5][9] She also negotiated the company's first freight contract.[9] When Amazon began to succeed,[when?] Scott took a less involved role in the business, preferring to focus on her family and literary career.

[JayJuanGee]

Bears not going down without a fight.

Go Bears!!!!!!!!
































NOT!!!!

[xhomerx10]

Bears not going down without a fight.

Go Bears!!!!!!!!








NOT!!!!

[Torque]

[...]

By the way, I did listen to that podcast between Laura Shin and Saylor in the end of January when it came out (here's a link if peeps want to listen to the whole 1 hour and a half thingie), and sure Saylor did end up lecturing Laura a bit in regards to some of her seemingly trader rather than HODLer thinking.. so there were some seemingly hostile times during that interview, and maybe it did kind of show that Laura might have been under-appreciating the power and importance of bitcoin through her ongoing attempts at journalistic objectivism.

[...]

I hadn't listened or watched that interview, thanks for that link. Here's the YouTube video:

Why Bitcoin Now: Michael Saylor on the Best Way for Companies to Buy Bitcoin - Ep.209

I found Saylor was his usual entertaining self, trying to simplify the various concepts, and making them more digestible for Laura and the Bitcoin newbies in the audience—which is a good thing, and Saylor is pretty good at it. I think he was a bit repetitive at times, reiterating the "thermodynamically sound monetary network" line, and the points about electricity, running water and Venezuela. He did come out as trying to persuade her to a degree. "And, by the way...this", "and, by the way...that"...

Laura came out as the happy Bitcoin semi-noob, with a pinch of evilness, when she kept mentioning about "Bitcoin reaching a bubble/peak", "when to sell", and overly laughing at times. She has a pleasant personality, I like her. I didn't get the impression that she has a deeper anti-Bitcoin agenda or anything like that, but rather, that she has the typical reservations and skepticism that anyone trained in the traditional monetary system would have. To her, the crypto space is just a new, hot thing that will increase her exposure and audience, will add more Twitter followers and viewers/listeners to her interviews and podcasts, but I don't think she really fully grasps the gravity and importance of Bitcoin and how it will transform the monetary system in the near future.

It's always great to listen and watch Saylor educating the masses about Bitcoin. In retrospect, a careful listener could have even guessed Tesla's $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment announcement that came about 10 days later. I believe this interview will forever haunt Laura Shin, when the time comes when she will see in awe and disbelief that Bitcoin has exceeded $10 trillion market cap, and Apple, Google and most of the big players have bought in.

Wait a sec...that woman calls herself a "Crypto Journalist" and yet doesn't own any Bitcoin??? ??

No skin in the game == Ambivalence == Nocoiner == Crypto Journalist Fraud

[nutildah]

[Arriemoller]

@danheld
The US Dollar keeps collapsing against Bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1376157128302358531?s=21





Anybody still buying this dip from the ATH? I get paid in my fiat job tomorrow. Going to buy as much as possible, help me decide. I will buy £5 worth of bitcoin for every merit I get for this post. I will prove my purchase tomorrow with a screenshot.

Keep on stacking my WO family.

You are starting to push it now.

[vapourminer]

Anybody still buying this dip from the ATH? I get paid in my fiat job tomorrow. Going to buy as much as possible, help me decide. I will buy £5 worth of bitcoin for every merit I get for this post. I will prove my purchase tomorrow with a screenshot.

Keep on stacking my WO family.

You are starting to push it now.

i will give 1 (one) merit to the next 5 (five) peeps to reply that they put Slot Kid on ignore. if any of those 5 peeps to reply already had Slot kid on ignore, they will get 2 (two) merits. no need for screenshot, honor system applies.

Slot Kid putting himself on ignore does not count.

edit: will merit in the morning.

[philipma1957]

Anybody still buying this dip from the ATH? I get paid in my fiat job tomorrow. Going to buy as much as possible, help me decide. I will buy £5 worth of bitcoin for every merit I get for this post. I will prove my purchase tomorrow with a screenshot.

Keep on stacking my WO family.

You are starting to push it now.

i will give 1 (one) merit to the next 5 (five) peeps to reply that they put Slot Kid on ignore. if any of those 5 peeps to reply already had Slot kid on ignore, they will get 2 (two) merits. no need for screenshot, honor system applies.

Slot Kid putting himself on ignore will not count.

edit: will merit in the morning.

Okay you owe me 1 merit.

[Searing]

Did she actually ever do something for Amazon or was she indeed just "an investor"?

I think the joke is that she wasn't even an investor. Maybe she was a baby mommy?

I read she has given away or committed to give away 90% of here Amazon wealth she got in the divorce..meanwhile Bezo's is HODL'ing on to every dime

and his idea of charity is a FU...so pretty sure why they divorced…talk about moving apart on world views.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55313522