Also on vacation, I read The Blocksize War, by @jonathanbier, about Bitcoin's scaling schism (2015-2017). Brilliant book. I thought I knew the story pretty well, but there was a ton of new stuff that I learned. Will write a review for the blog this weekhttps://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-protocol/dp/B08YQMC2WM/ref=nodl_ …
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Right, I mean to get into the use cases behind Bitcoin (to the extent that one can speak of such things) requires more of a "macro thesis" around the banking system or fiat money or whatever cranky thing people say now. It's *anticipating* a problem, not solving one
But the same is true of holding tons of bullion, which is the whole idea that the smallblockers had in mind so 