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phtrivier parent
Well, the writing was on the wall.

We'll love bailing out the crypto scammers like we bailed larger banks.

None of us will benefit. Those who will, well, good for them, I suppose. That big pool will surely be full of, wet water, I suppose ?

It's not like anything matters anymore, right ? Enjoy !!!!


Irony: the first Bitcoin block has a link to an article about the bank bailouts, highlighting how it was created to be an alternative.

What started as an attempt to get away from the worst kinds of financial capitalism turned into an absurdist parody of it.

A take away of mine from the whole saga is: it’s actually very hard to get money to do useful things.

Money “wants” to scam, pump and dump, and most of all to gamble. A casino is what every financial system “wants” to become. Take away the regulations and rules and casinos is all you get.

I feel like a loose analogy can be made with trying to build a heat engine, to get energy that “wants” to just dissipate into entropy to do useful work.

Maybe there’s some kind of weird connection there. Useful investments are a lot harder — meaning less thermodynamically favorable, less likely to exist, lower entropy — than scams and bullshit and gambling. If money has an easy way to flow why would it take the hard way?

phtrivier OP
Interesting parralel, i'll go even further: given that the quantity of speech is infinite, but only a statistically insignificant part of it corresponds to truth, does it mean that truth-seeking is also going against the laws of thermodynamics ?
Probably. An infinite amount of bullshit can be created for free, but checking it is expensive. Actual truth gathering is also very expensive.

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