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    1. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 23 Jul 2018
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      Nick Szabo  🔑 Retweeted George Selgin

      George is a fellow OG but this is wrong. Bitcoin is seamlessly global, it does not and need not conform to the ideological speculations ("macroeconomic theories") of particular polities.https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1021553927324688386 …

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      George Selgin @GeorgeSelgin
      When I wrote my book on free banking, I tried to persuade other economists that it would promote stability. To do that, I had to take their concerns, theories, and beliefs seriously. Fans of bitcoin and other crypto's ought to do the same.
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    2. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 23 Jul 2018
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      Dr. Selgin was on the mailing list with Wei Dai and myself where in 1998 cryptocurrency (bit gold, and a bit later b-money) was invented. His description of free banking was very inspirational and informative.

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    3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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      (Also Larry White's description of free banking). My two-layer architecture (bit gold for the basic currency and settlement, Chaumian cash for the retail "bank notes") was inspired by the free banking system of bank notes redeemable on demand for gold at a gold window.

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    4. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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      The lesson I drew from that and other aspects of history that the real money in these circumstances was gold -- that is what people wanted at the end of the day. If the gold window closed, the trust-based part of the system collapsed.

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    5. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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      Trust and security considerations are far more important than speculations about aggregate human behavior. Psychologists have a hard time making their experiments on individuals repeatable. Macroeconomists speculate about vast numbers of interacting individuals, no repeatability.

      6 replies 46 retweets 218 likes
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    6. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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      High inflation causes savers and creditors large tangible harms, as we see today in Venezuela, Iran, Sudan, Nigeria, Argentina, &c. But alleged harms caused by much lower levels of "bad deflation" are very causally remote from monetary decisions -- it's ideological speculation.

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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      While macroeconomic debates are very popular in the fiat central banking world, where monetary decisions are highly political, they are nevertheless ideological speculations not science.

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        1. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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          For these reasons, I strongly urge those developing or maintaining cryptocurrencies to focus on trust minimization and security. Protect holders against internally caused loss of value, but treat macroeconomic considerations with many grains of salt and very low priority.

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        2. Psycho Sage‏ @psycho_sage 24 Jul 2018
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          If you read Alan Greenspan’s work, the FED is completely professional & apolitical. I am not sure how or why they try to appease politicians. Congress has no authority over them as the federal reserve act.

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        3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 24 Jul 2018
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          Replying to @psycho_sage

          Appointed by the President and Congress, able to transfer trillions of dollars to organizations of their choice, but "apolitical". That whopper is right up there with the ICO sams.

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        4. Psycho Sage‏ @psycho_sage 24 Jul 2018
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          Thanks Nic. You’re correct, they do transfer funds arbitrarily

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        1. CharlieP‏ @Bitcoinacrypto 24 Jul 2018
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          If someone had told me this at the start of my uni macroeconomics course, I could have saved years worth of struggling and feeling stupid. Microeconomics appears grounded in observable science. Macroeconomics is just fairy tales.

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        1. Joe Walton‏ @JosephBWalton 24 Jul 2018
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          'Economics' used to be called 'political economy' until 'political' was dropped a decade before the Great Dep. Then-current practioners thought it was a simple mathematic sci. that was degraded by the 'political'. Ever since, it has been regarded clinically and disserved society.

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        1. Barack hod’lama‏ @burakinmove 24 Jul 2018
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          Keynesian economic model which is followed by major economies suggest that totalitarian interventions may succeed better than free market principle, as per stated in his books german translation pressed in 1937

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        1. Ben Johnstone‏ @mrbenjohnstone 25 Jul 2018
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          I disagree that they're ideological - they are purely real politik; a distributed pose with an underlying, unconscious incentive to corral votes for the incumbent.

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