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oh god i literally just argued against accelerationism but this would just nuke the US economy
Putting speedrun to shame
Wheeew boy… This is something.
Learning from Bukele
even Bukele, a megalomanic with more or less unlimited domestic political power, is now backing off this bitcoin shit after the IMF showed him what it would do the Salvadoran economy (in a JFK-assassination-video-from-another-angle-style I imagine).
He’s pivoting back to good old gold mining now, though that’s even more domestically unpopular than the bitcoin since all metal mining has been banned in el Salvador since 2017.
Yes please completely and utterly destroy the treasury that’ll go super well
…let him cook.
But why…
a pump and dump crypto scheme I presume
They believe their own bullshit, apparently
Yeah these guys are so insulated from human life and the consequences of their actions that they pretty much live in a venture capital brained state of complete delusion.
Because technology of course!