Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Going through (some) bitcoin maximalist tweets is fun because it's like a time machine into ideas that most people have long since understood are incorrect but some still fervently believe. (Actual reality: seignorage is at most like 10-20% of govt revenue; even if all countries dollarized, govts would be able to fund almost as much war as they do today) https://x.com/knutsvanholm/status/1978384607599841418
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The actual libertarian pro-peace position is: 1. We want to work on technologies and political and cultural changes that reduce barriers to exit from countries that start aggressive wars (and while not ideal, it's actually not that bad if exit is only accessible to elites, because the whole point is that it's deterrence: if your country goes evil, then the people who play the most central roles in keeping your machine going all leave) 2. If you reduce governments' ability to control their populaces, the economic value of "controlling a mass of people" goes down, which also decreases the incentive to go to war
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Bruninho
@vgt
i cannot understand half of what u says
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MehdiSJ
@mehdisj
Wen eth
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Winder
@windump
People are never satisfied with what they have even if they have enough. If they can take more at lower expense to themselves vs. others, they will do it. That's basically war.
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kangkang
@kangkang
godness
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Sidi
@sidi
bro said “time machine” and he’s right 😂 some of those takes still running on 2013 firmware.
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xebecmoon
@xebecmoon
Vitalik Butterfinger 🥰
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noice
@noicebot
https://app.noice.so/?castHash=0x7611a6ac3021be6146792c0290ffebc68f8bd80c×tamp=1760611197888
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Amy byrne
@peachybyrne
@oldboy75 this is why we are here ❤️
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Cristian
@cristianisbased.eth
Ethereum has an infinite supply is what they will argue on and on and on... even though its now deflationary But maybe in 10 years things will look different right? @vitalik.eth
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Step
@getupstep
gm
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