Mike Brock
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Unfashionable.
It’s still incredible to think back to last April when I wrote this piece and most of my friends and family saw me as a little bit unhinged and overly alarmist. 
The Time of Monsters
On Institutional Erosion, Normalcy Bias, and the Conditions That Precede Catastrophe
My critique of the cypherpunks. 
Show Your Face
A Critique of the Cypherpunks
For what it's worth, my best guess, using my most disciplined guestimation, that it is 70-80% likely that Adam BAck is indeed Satoshi Nakamoto. This includes my sense derived from personal interactions with him, strong buttressed by Mr. Carreyrou's reporting.
✅ Supposed human rights activist celebrates IGRC collecting extortionate toll payments in an international waterway that will be used to fund its brutal repression.
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Ah, yes, see... the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is now adopting Bitcoin! This is it guys! The world will now see the beauty and potential of Bitcoin! A murderous regime that massacred 35,000 protesters in the streets in January has been orange-pilled! (corrected)
Seeing some former friends literally giddy with excitement that Iran will be using Bitcoin for paying tolls for the Straight of Hormuz as some kind of validation of the goodness of Bitcoin is very special. It confirms my worries about their fascist sympathies.
On what I would do if I had the power. 
On Moral Imagination
On Where We Could Go From Here
I wrote this back in April. Back when my TDS was at its worst.
The Time of Monsters
On Institutional Erosion, Normalcy Bias, and the Conditions That Precede Catastrophe
I understand people may think lowly of me for the unrelenting humiliation against my former friends which is on the spoke, but they betrayed me, you see. And I was made to suffer for insisting on truth. So now you must be made to suffer for insisting on lies.
The people who turned their backs on me, said I had TDS, said I was too toxic with my public disapprobation of Mr. Trump. Boy, am I now going to make their lives hell.