Rahim Taghizadegan (scholarium.at)
@scholarium_at
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The last Austrian Austrian Economist in the direct tradition, the first one to grasp #Bitcoin . Best-selling book author, professor, investor, engineer.
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IMF experts warn: Bitcoin adoption poses huge risk ... Let me complete that sentence: ... to us.
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On my way to bring some insights about Bitcoin into the German parliament
Wir freuen uns auf den in Kürze beginnenden Vortrag mit Rahim Taghizadegan (
@scholarium_at
) und die anschließende Debatte zur Frage:
Wie ändert
#Bitcoin
unsere Gesellschaft?
Es wird voll!
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Next week, I'll teach the first class on
#Bitcoin
at the University of Emden/Leer in Northern Germany.
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Creating this skull as virtual AI art would have allowed Greenpeace to save 99% of the energy and resources that went into it. Instead, they contributed to melting Greenland's ice sheet. Change the art!
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Impressed by
@JMilei
's very personal and witty speech in Hamburg, capturing the spirit of Mises and Hayek.
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Joining the hype: ChatGPT has not disappointed when asked to write a conversation between Hitler, Stalin, and Ludwig von Mises in a Viennese coffee shop in the early 20th century, sometime before the outbreak of the First World War.
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"Trust me" is the final plea of those who have squandered all trust.
"My main message today is simple: the soul of money belongs neither to a big tech nor to an anonymous ledger. The soul of money is trust." — A. Carstens
#CounterReformation
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Others innovate; we regulate! Let's party our "lauchpad" for more bullshit jobs siphoning off ever more of the remaining wealth. The kind of jobs "AI" would be best at replacing.
Historic!
The EU becomes the very first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI 🇪🇺
The
#AIAct
is much more than a rulebook — it's a launchpad for EU startups and researchers to lead the global AI race.
The best is yet to come! 👍
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Who wants to join our team? Interest in Austrian Economics & Bitcoin, skills in history, research, IT, writing. Payment in BTC possible.//Mitarbeiter gesucht mit Interesse an Österr. Schule, Affinität für Geschichte, IT, Schreiben. Bezahlung in BTC möglich.
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Eine kritische Analyse der Ergebnisse der EU-Wahl mit einigen Bedenken über die Entwicklung der Grünparteien für
@FuW_News
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Long interview on the biggest Austrian Bitcoin podcast on investment, Bitcoin citadels, Vienna, and Switzerland.
#Bitcoin
ist Hoffnung - aber Hand aufs Herz, der Interventionismus hat Deutschland und Österreich hart zugesetzt
Was hat uns bloß so ruiniert? Großes Interview mit
@scholarium_at
Jetzt reinhören!
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Not sure, if no internet would really be worse for bitcoin than for gold (or any other asset). BTC needs only low bandwidth for confirmations, can be traded p2p offline, while the value of most assets w/out access to intl. markets (transport, logistics, settlement) collapses.
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I've again been interviewed this week by the important Austrian newspaper "Die Presse" and discovered in their newly renovated lounge that they are now honoring their former columnist Ludwig von Mises with beautiful wood panels.
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Confusion is an essential part of the financial system.
CLIP: We hear a lot about the national debt.
But do currency-issuing governments really ‘borrow' their own currencies?
The answer might surprise you.
Watch FINDING THE MONEY documentary, In Theaters and On Demand TOMORROW May 3:
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#Bitcoin
is different things to different people, so the correlation is not clear: Short-term, bitcoin is a crypto token highly correlated to fiat. Long-term, Bitcoin is a resilient and dynamic network increasingly capable of replacing fiat-driven assets.
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The recording of my masterclass on Monetary Theory &
#Bitcoin
for
@LuganoPlanB
has finally been shared:
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Amazing reception yesterday of my talk in Lebanon, even made it to the evening news on TV. Glad to see so many bright people in Lebanon passionate about freedom & culture. If you are in Lebanon and have missed it, come join me tonight in Antelias with
@saifedean
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Sunday in the beautiful old Hansa city of Bremen. The streets are dominated by drunkards and the deranged, half German, half recent immigrants. Doesn’t bode well for Germany.
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Windräder lassen sich nicht mit Windenergie, Fotovoltaikanlagen nicht mit Sonnenenergie allein produzieren. Die nötigen Hochöfen, Minen und internationalen Transporte operieren hochgradig fossil.
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Kritische Analyse zu Worldcoin:
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Casinos use tokens for a reason - it becomes "play money". Liquidity for NFTs (as for ICOs) is much higher in ETH not for technical, but psychological reasons. BTC used to be play money (for the first ICO: ETH), but now it is seen as property by more, not a token to gamble away.
@stephanlivera
@udiWertheimer
@OwnNothingBFree
Think of all of these things as casino games:
- Spot/futures/options trading is craps
- NFTs are poker
- Yield farming is slots
Bitcoin has fewer types of games to play. Remember that people came into Bitcoin bc of speculation. There are less journeys into Bitcoin then.
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An Austrian Austrian in the midst of the most famous American Austrians, honoring Lew Rockwell's work for the legacy of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard.
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Disappointing take, Per. Menger & Hayek knew that money is an attribute, not a binary category. Adoption is a process, which means it's gradual, not "semi-universal" (this oxymoron is a sign of your confusion).
The issue for bitcoin isn't the technology, but its adoption. To be perfectly clear: it's not money (other than in limited circles). To become money, it must be adopted semi-universally as a medium of exchange by people in their everyday transactions (both buyers and sellers).
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Politik bedeutet, die Energieversorgung den Plänen von Kinderbuchautoren und Schülerinnen zu unterwerfen statt von Ingenieurinnen und Unternehmern. Auch die Pläne der letzteren können schiefgehen, das geplante Chaos der ersteren bleibt aber meist ohne Konsequenzen für die Urheber
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I will speak in Lebanon on Jan 6, together with
@saifedean
. I'll talk about "The Cultural Relevance of Bitcoin for Lebanon and the Middle East". Register here to attend:
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Two digital gold concepts, worlds apart. Ditched my last "
@Goldmoney
:" all fiat gains lost to high fees, outdated UI, restrictive rules, no p2p. Contrast that with
#Bitcoin
's free self-custody, permissionless p2p, and great DCA tools. The old 'digital gold' was such a dead end!
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Ein Interview u.a. über einen Bitcoin-Standard, in dem die Antworten kürzer ausfallen als die Fragen ;)
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Der hochdeutsche Titel:
#Bitcoin
- Kult oder Kultur?
Darum ging es: Ist Bitcoin Vorbote und Grundlage einer neuen Kultur? Oder nur ein Kult in seiner Filterblase? Ein kritischer Blick auf die enge Verbindung zwischen Geld und Kultur, die Enttäuschungen der menschlichen Natur,
BTC23 ft. Rahim Taghizadegan
@scholarium_at
- Hodln, nua net hudeln!
Jetzt auf YouTube verfügbar.
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@johnnystacks21
Essenz dieser Kritik ist einheitliche Geldschöpfung/Leitzinsen für unterschiedliche Wirtschaftsräume - ist aber nur ein Symptomproblem und nicht Ansatz der Österr. Schule. Kernproblem: Geldplanwirtschaft, die funktioniert natürlich umso schlechter, je größer und heterogener der
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An unusually long and deep podcast on some of the most complex topics that should be easier to follow and listen to than it may sound ;) If you enjoyed it, let us know and share it, then it may become the start of a series.
Rahim Taghizadegan (
@scholarium_at
) joins me to discuss what Jungian psychology and Austrian economics have in common, the problem with the deterministic worldview, the nature of incentives, and whether
#Bitcoin
is a fundamental innovation.
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Der Fall der gescheiterten Kryptobörse
#FTX
zeigt Regulierungsillusionen und Finanzblähungen auf. Die Kryptoszene ist eine gemeinsame Schöpfung von Regulatoren und Financiers.
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Just completed crafting the foreword. From the glimpse I've had, this book promises to be a visually stunning masterpiece!
#Praxeology
- The invisible hand that feeds you
Coming soon to an internet near you
@KonsensusN
@OmniFinn
@Mel_Shilling
@scholarium_at
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Anstatt von Deutschland und Österreich zu lernen, begeht die Schweizer Politik ähnliche Fehler. Im Sinne möglichst freier Migration muss die subventionierte Migration enden.
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Now going to the Main stage
@BTCPrague
, speech at 14:40. Happy for anyone still in the audience ;)
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The surprising historical links between
#Madeira
,
#Austria
, and
#Bitcoin
, revealed in a speech at
@BitcoinAtlantis
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@dergigi
Tokens on a ledger, but not token money – Ein geldiges Zeichen, das kein Zeichengeld ist, sondern sachloses Sachgeld.
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Die ideengeschichtlichen Hintergründe von Degrowth sind überraschend und reichen sogar zur österreichischen Schule – eine würdigende Kritik:
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Studying the Three Body Problem in physics taught me how hard it is to make predictions about complex systems.
Economies are unimaginably complex, so it makes sense to analyse them via their emergent phenomena.
This is the approach taken by Austrian School economists.
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Wer die authentische Österreichische Schule vertieft kennenlernen will, findet im intimen Alpensalon im ursprünglichst “österreichischen” Geiste eine einmalige Gelegenheit – es sind noch ein paar Zimmer im Kloster für uns frei geworden:
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@fabthefoxx
Die Sicht ist gut, die Theorie falsch. Geld als "Recht zum Bezuge von Gütern" ist eine irreführende Analogie, die daraus folgende moralische Bewertung der Geldmanipulation teile ich aber.
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@matteopelleg
@giacomozucco
Important distinction. I always write "Bitcoin" for the network and "bitcoin" for the asset, explaining the difference when possible. I just need to make sure that the editors of my articles don't remove the distinction.
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Great exposition, but based on the common fallacy: Bitcoin community = people getting engagement on Twitter.
Assuming that Bitcoin Twitter would be different from any other social media bubble is naive. The concept of a "public debate" is fundamentally flawed. Tribalism is
@renepickhardt
@udiWertheimer
It isn't so much that a single specific current narrative is strange/self-contradicting, even though there certainly are some inadequate narratives out there. Let me start by listing some:
- Bitcoin is perfect, doesn't need to change. But also everyone should self-custody!
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Don't miss , June 8-10! I'll be giving a unique perspective on European history – from guilders to Bitcoin. Also, I'll be discussing CBDCs, Europe's future, and Bitcoin Citadels at various panels and the dev/hack/day.
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Next week in Riga at , I'll speak about the "History and Ethics of Privacy and Trust", come up with the most accurate price predictions for Bitcoin with
@TuurDemeester
and
@adam3us
on the economics panel, and record a podcast series with
@Breedlove22
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It is an honor to be part of this amazing series of deep conversations
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@mathias_von
@a_nnaschneider
Ich bin weder an ideologischen Etiketten und Gruppierungen noch an Wahlen oder Meinungen interessiert, daher falscher Ansprechpartner.
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I recently talked to
@PrinceySOV
about the difference between the Austrian and Keynesian Schools of Economics.
Rather than trying to reduce economic interaction to statistical abstractions, the Austrian approach takes the basic axioms of human action as its starting point.
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Don't miss my talk at
@AdoptingBTC
on the monetary background of the conquest of America and (anti-)colonialism. A historical deep dive with some potential lessons for El Salvador
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Wenn Wien auslässt, springt die alte Schwesterstadt ein – natürlich bin auch ich dieses Jahr wieder in Prag dabei und freue mich auf ein Wiedersehen mit möglichst vielen deutschsprachigen plebs :)
Calling all CHADs! 🇨🇭🇦🇹🇩🇪
Unfortunately,
@thebconf
planned for this year in Vienna has been canceled. ☹️ With support from its organizer
@derPeter21
, we want to invite all the plebs from the DACH / CHAD community to
#BTCPrague
🤗
We offer many CHAD speakers in the lineup:
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A key use case of
#Bitcoin
is its ability to permissionlessly transfer wealth across borders.
This function – similar to that played historically by diamonds sewn into clothes – allows people to escape financial wipe-out under authoritarian regimes or during economic collapse.
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@tonster96
@jordanbpeterson
Would be happy to explore with you why C.G.Jung, when writing about economics & politics, sounded like an Austrian economist. Also: Mises’s thymology and the link to the Austrian schools of psychology.
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Ich spreche auf fast jeder
#Bitcoin
-Konferenz in diesem Jahr, doch BTC23 in Innsbruck ist mein Favorit: bester Ort, beste Organisation und nicht zuletzt das beste Publikum :). Heute letzter Tag für vergünstigte Karten (Code "scholarium"):
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#Bitcoin
is an exciting monetary innovation that brings real social benefits. But why are so many people attracted to "crypto" scams?
I argue that lack of trust in central banks has led to the rise of “counter-trust” where people become too susceptible to alternative narratives.
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On my way to
@LuganoPlanB
. Don't miss my masterclass Saturday at 10 am, UTXO Room, to learn about the astonishing complexity and beauty of monetary phenomena and how Austrian Economics helps understand
#Bitcoin
. Deep dive for all levels, from newbies to the most advanced.
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Zero interest actually turns capitalism on its head. … Zero interest means that consumption does not follow production; rather, production follows consumption: If the future is materially equivalent to the present, everyone prefers the present.
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Don't miss my keynote tomorrow in Liechtenstein if you are in the area: How it began and why Bitcoin is different (from all the crypto tokens). Speaking right after the prime minister in my favorite micronation, which tries to be one of the best places in the world for "crypto",
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@MarkusTurm
@fabthefoxx
@BitcoinJoker42
@JanineGriesser
Gestaltung macht stets der Verlag, also nächstes Buch bei Aprycot? ;)
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Today’s S2F seems to be Softwar. Is there a moral duty to call it out? No, it’s no scam, just an analogy inflated by the cargo-cult science of modern academia and credentials.
Is the attention it is getting, testimony to the lack of intellectual rigor among Bitcoiners? No, it is
Great exposition, but based on the common fallacy: Bitcoin community = people getting engagement on Twitter.
Assuming that Bitcoin Twitter would be different from any other social media bubble is naive. The concept of a "public debate" is fundamentally flawed. Tribalism is
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#Bitcoin
is not a political unit or an enterprise, it is a technology.
Its adoption in El Salvador is undoubtedly positive for the local population.
However, we need to be sensitive about supporting politicians just because they introduce pro-bitcoin policies.
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When money depreciates, people are forced to use inappropriate assets – e.g. real estate or index funds – as alternative savings vehicles.
Forced "investment" does not allocate capital according to the real needs of society, it merely creates waste and exacerbates systemic risk.
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Peter Thiel was a disappointment. Singling out enemies in the name of a crowd he does not even belong to is just nasty politics. The choice of enemies was boring and arbitrary. He missed Lightning and presented Ethereum as a high-velocity alternative to Bitcoin.
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I have seen criticism of
#BTC22
and other Bitcoin conferences for high ticket prices, which are deemed antithetical to the open ethos of Bitcoin. A thread with some thoughts on the issue:
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Beautiful Lugano not only has one of the highest Bitcoin adoptions for retail payments, but also one of the best Bitcoin conferences. Looking forward to seeing many of my Swiss friends there
Announcing Austrian economist and Investor in Bitcoin citadels
@scholarium_at
as an official speaker at Plan ₿ Forum 2023!
Don’t miss the event of the year in Lugano, October 20-21! 🇨🇭
Get your ticket now! 👉
#LuganoPlanB
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Let's quote Murray Rothbard to celebrate his birthday: "the absurdities … of fiat paper money would be far more evident if … each neighborhood or street block were to print its own currency. A more decentralized world would be far more likely to turn to sound … money."
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A quite common straw man: praxeology as anti-empirical "armchair" dogmatism that claims immunity to criticism. This could not be further from the truth. A thread to set the record straight ...
Is a priorism in economics the most fiat of all methodologies? So much trust!
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Politik ist der einzige Bereich, in dem Versagen zu mehr Macht und Einkommen führt. Neuer Artikel für
@FuW_News
mit einem kritischen Blick auf Wirtschaftskrise und Konjunkturzyklus.
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I never give the same talk twice, but that is irrelevant: organizers select for reach, and attendants go to conferences to meet other people. That is why topics don't seem to matter. All natural and fine, it has nothing to do with Bitcoin(ers)
When next conference with same people and same topics?
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Don't miss my talk today
@BtcPrague
16:00 on the main stage on why Prague is so beautiful, what it has to do with some surprising and hidden parts of monetary history, and what lessons we may learn for Europe's future.
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Letzte Stunden und damit letzte Chance für alle, die in diesen Zeiten sparen müssen. An der BTC23 gar nicht teilzunehmen könnte teuer werden: Im Bärenmarkt wird eingefädelt und gebaut, was später die größten Früchte bringt. Auf ein gutes Jahr 2023 und das Wiedersehen in Innsbruck
Ab sofort gibt es für kurze Zeit stark vergünstigte Karten für die beste
#Bitcoin
-Konferenz BTC23 15.-16.9. in Innsbruck: Mit Code "scholarium" auf buchen. Nicht verpassen!
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Odd coincidence that the US gov seems to prepare a Bitcoin sell-off after Trump's
#Bitcoin
endorsement. The speech in Nashville was his typical superficial rambling, but the context seemed quite bullish though :)
You can't find a better "Trump loves Bitcoin" impression on the internet.
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Alle werden zu Spekulanten? Daniel Stelter
@thinkBTO
sucht im Podcast mit Rahim Taghizadegan Antworten und betrachtet dabei die Österreichische Schule, ihre heutige Relevanz und vor allem ihre Sicht auf die gegenwärtige Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft.
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That is very kind
@TuurDemeester
, you're a role model to me. I may have had a head start on Austrian Economics and even Bitcoin, but you have been much faster at understanding Bitcoin than me.
Looking forward to this conversation with the esteemed Rahim Taghizadegan. A role model for us, back in 2009 me and my friends shared notes about his Institut für Wertewirtschaft in Vienna. He's the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition.
#bh2023
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Despite what its proponents claim, mainstream economics doesn't function as a predictive science.
Its long-term forecasts are rarely more reliable than rolling dice.
Mainstream economists are instead mainly in the business of fabricating narratives to justify interventionism.
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@BachmannRudi
@monikaturyna
Wenn die “Feuerwehr” den Brand gelegt hat, ist sie auch für den Wasserschaden zur Verantwortung zu ziehen.
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@ecb
@Lagarde
@UN4Youth
@UNDESASocial
ECB losing the meme war an indication for how much trust has been destroyed by the hubris of monetary technocrats?
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Ein "deep dive" zu AI, Bitcoin, Medien, Universitäten und mehr. Der erste Podcast, für den nachträglich ein Foliensatz angelegt wird :)
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It was a friendly rage, no worries 😉
@scholarium_at
really got into a rage, it was great fun, great panel about WTF a Citadel is
@BitcoinAtlantis
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Diesen Samstag, 24.09., 9-16 Uhr Seminar im scholarium zur Entstehung und Wirkung der Österreichischen/Wiener Schule, gute Einstiegsmöglichkeit ins Studium generale (vor Ort oder im Fernstudium):
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The real artwork is proof of some outstanding work by the talented artist
@thevonwong
and not some virtual nonsense in a metaverse owned by VC or NGO scammers. Proof-of-work makes
#Bitcoin
the only non-virtual digital asset. The art was funded with a bribe by a VC scammer to NGO
Creating this skull as virtual AI art would have allowed Greenpeace to save 99% of the energy and resources that went into it. Instead, they contributed to melting Greenland's ice sheet. Change the art!
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Podcast über die praktische und gegenwärtige Relevanz der Österreichischen Schule der Ökonomik
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Internet shutdown would also increase innovation in mesh infrastructure, satellite internet, data transmission via CB radio, offline payments (statechains …).
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In my recent discussion with
@PrinceySOV
I talked about my training in the Austrian School of Economics and how entrepreneur Roland Baader passed on his library of 30,000+ books to me.
These books are now stored at the Institut Scholarium in Vienna and are available to students.
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Nur noch zwei Tage Sonderangebot für BTC23 in Innsbruck Mitte September 2023. Pflichttermin! Ich werde womöglich über Bitcoin & Kultur sprechen.
Ab sofort gibt es für kurze Zeit stark vergünstigte Karten für die beste
#Bitcoin
-Konferenz BTC23 15.-16.9. in Innsbruck: Mit Code "scholarium" auf buchen. Nicht verpassen!
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Ethics expert from top university giving moral advice almost as good as financial advice from top economist.
To reduce our carbon footprint,
@NYU
prof. Matthew Liao suggests altering genes to make people shorter and also to create artificial allergies to red meat.
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Do, 28.09., 19h, Wien: GELD & INFLATION - WAS JEDE(R) WISSEN MUSS. Salongespräch von Rahim Taghizadegan mit
@ASchnauder
(Chefredakteur
@derpragmaticus
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Don't commit the error of bad theory: preferring clear-cut, binary categories or labels over messy reality. You're ignoring the real increase in Bitcoin's "moneyness," while clinging to the least useful definition denoting a potential end-point (universal medium of exchange).
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Some historical background on the Austrian School at its Viennese beginnings:
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Wie viel Marktwirtschaft steckt eigentlich im Strompreis? Die Antwort ist komplizierter, als es auf den ersten Blick scheinen mag.
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If your stream is clogged with bad news, zoom out. Big-picture article for
@TimelessBitcoin
, deeply diving into history: . See the thread for a few key points
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Verifying my account on nostr
My Public Key: 901b0bebf02ab7a39e4dad43ef9f0cfb6f1c1ba633b8fbe76c410b5a027d4a6b
Find others at
@nostrdirectory
#nostr
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