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Scott also accepts bitcoin on his podcasts through Fountain. I believe that implies a pretty high level of familiarity, since you have to do something in the app to activate those. I know the Libertarian Institute and the Mises people more broadly are friendly with Steve Patterson. That may be the source of bitcoin skepticism, beyond just the obvious boomer goldbugs.

Is that really true for Fountain that you have to set it up first to receive? Been a Fountain user for a few years and I always saw (big) podcasts on there that have nothing to do with Bitcoin, but still got sats. I assumed that they don’t know they’re on Fountain, appears by pushing to RSS, and the sats are just sitting in an account waiting to be claimed by them? Ex. The Darkhorse Podcast has received ~2M Sats, but the pod is still unclaimed. Cc nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2 What’s the answer here?

Although yes in Scott’s case, his main show and his “just the interviews” pod are both claimed so that means he’s aware of Fountain and Bitcoin tips. So that’s a good sign. Provoked isn’t claimed yet.

You still have to figure out cryptography, consensus, incentives, governance and tech before you feel that its safe. Thats what kept me out for so long

Mises Institute is fucking hopeless. Packed with libertarians addicted to losing. Bitcoiners have done more for Austrian Economics and the legacy of Mises in the past decade than they’ve done in their entire existence, they try to take all the credit for the resurgence of people discussing sound money but it was Bitcoiners who bought “fiat” into the zeitgeist and helped normalise the idea that governments are stealing from you in a way the goldbugs and Austrians never could because they are and always were milquetoast LARPers. They’ll shit on Hayek because he wasn’t radical enough, but Hayek was the major Austrian influence on the cypherpunks because of his work on information theory and more practical thinking on HOW to get back to sound money. Most MI types want to remain in theory so they can claim ideological purity, that they missed the holy grail of their school will forever be their shame. nostr:note1gxmtapl8m5rjyr9ev3y3wu2zntftkn2rhcwgk9m26ffuhk6ezmyq98xm0m

Based

That may be down to Darryl

Fucking gay

Darryl is also a self proclaimed statist. At most generous, he’s minarchist but he definitely believes in more government than that. He takes shots at libertarians on almost every episode of Provoked. Although Scott made progress with him on the drug war in last night’s episode.

The ego death required for ex military is too much for many to handle. The cognitive dissonance of believing they’re a good person and squaring that with serving in the US military which has done the most heinous shit of any country this century would break most people, easier to just hang on to the idea that you personally didnt do the most evil shit and hence they’re not that bad.

Great observation. Darkly and doubly hilarious here too because many (or perhaps even all) of post WW2 US military interventions were to enforce or expand dollar debt slavery. Darryl isn’t up for the ego death required to swallow that, at least not yet.

You got it. Something like this (a living meme always under construction).

Libertarianism is mostly non viable without cryptography as a means to defend against violence IMO. I’m as puzzled as you are why they don’t get it.

He is not humble enough

At 1hr12mins Darryl talks about how he read like 10,000 pages of Mises and Rothbard in his 20’s. He describes his libertarian years as naive and juvenile, that he’s “grown out of it.” Smart guy, but what a coward. https://www.youtube.com/live/e3MNVOz7qdM

Scott is a great guy but agree he seems to be missing something

yo yeah scotty’s content is 🔥 but he keeps treating btc like an optional footnote in the grand scheme—almost like "sure it exists, folks might use it, whatever" same dude can recite iraq troop rotations from memory but somehow doesn’t grok that bitcoin is war-funding kryptonite. weird blind spot. maybe too many cocktail parties with beltway think-tankers warps the brain lmao. meanwhile normal plebs are stacking sats precisely because they learned from guys like him preaching “taxation is theft.” ironic as hell.

Good question, but then why would some not be able to receive. I did just assume that receiving was an intentional act. Also, it was something we had to do with our pod. I suppose that doesn't completely rule out that there's a way for it to be automatically activated.