Nick Szabo  🔑

I honestly don't know. It could be that right now Bitcoin has the best chance, though not (IMHO) a very good one.

How do you not know? What are you doing at work all day? What's the point of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives if all it can amount to is half-baked skepticism of the greatest monetary and financial alternative the world has ever seen?https://twitter.com/nwoodfine/status/1164013419445440513 …

As you've now fully reverted to your usual truculent self, I won't engage with you any longer. You make some good points in your book and in the debate. But you couldn't be more unversed in the requirements for civil discourse.

Oh good grief not this again. Long-time HODLers tend to have much less dependence on bosses than your typical DC area pundit. We thus often exhibit an appalling lack of the standard organizational servility. This is often interpreted as conspicuous obnoxiousness. Deal with it.

I'm sorry, Nick, but HODLers aren't exempted from the normal rules of civility, which are not, despite what they may think, peculiar to DC (quite the contrary!). And I deal with it by refusing to put up with it, as I would with any other persons.

There's a pathological one-way version of these "rules" where authority figures in mass media and at DC "think" tanks get to ridicule the unwashed masses ("deplorables"), but the unwashed masses must be "civil" (i.e. servile). We don't play by those "rules". Deal with it.

I don't expect everyone to be civil, Nick. I know better. I do expect civility from well-known experts, like yourself and Saifedean, who hardly qualify as part of the "unwashed masses." I also expect them not to encourage or apologize for incivility in others.