RE: Rep 72 today 🎉 Are we part of a decentralised revolution or a banking system trap?
From my article "How to Avoid Funding the American Deep State":
"Regarding how expensive and slow bitcoin transactions have become:
The lead maintainer of the Bitcoin Core repository on GitHub, Wladimir van der Laan, works for the Digital Currency Initiative (as do Cory Fields and Gavin Andresen, who, however, hasn't contributed to Bitcoin Core since 2016, as far as I know). The DCI's current director is Neha Narula, who was a senior software engineer at Google. She's not the only one at the DCI who has a funny background.
The DCI was co-founded by Brian Forde at the MIT Media Lab. Forde is a former White House senior advisor. And MIT Media Lab's director, Joi Ito, is a strategic advisor to Sony and a board member of the New York Times Company (among other things). Then there is of course the fact that the MIT receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government every year.
In 2016, AXA Strategic Ventures co-lead a $55 million investment in a key funder of Bitcoin Core: Blockstream, for which quite a few Bitcoin Core developers have worked. At the time of the investment, AXA's CEO and chairman was Henri de Castries, who is also the chairman of the Bilderberg Group's Steering Committee."
Man, I'm sorry to see that so few people read your seriously extensive article on this, which I will go through later today. Thanks for dropping the highlights here.
Was aware of point 3 but not the others...
Thanks. Feel free to let me know if there's anything in the article you don't like (it did do better on Minds, but yeah).
Interesting to learn about minds. I just joined a few weeks back and am posting there now but still figuring out how everything works. Are you under the same username there?
Yeah.
Subscribed ;)
FYI, you can find lots of info on how to use Minds here and here ;)
You are a legend! I was wondering how you make your articles look so pretty on minds? Am assuming I will find the answer here...
Thanks, not sure what exactly you mean by "pretty," but I'm sure those links should tell you how. The blog editor is pretty buggy though, or at least it was a few months ago - switching browsers helped. (I had to recharge and update my article with your post before replying to your comment.)
And thanks for the remind ;)
No problem, your post was pretty good after all ;)