waxwing on Nostr: The Milei thing reminds me of an idea/pattern: ideological libertarians and ...
The Milei thing reminds me of an idea/pattern: ideological libertarians and anarcho-capitalists *who are not technologists* are very weak to attack by the crypto scammers.
A less extreme example than this Milei one is Jeffrey Tucker, who fell hook line and sinker for Roger Ver's sales pitch that "Core is evil". The arguments about scalability have a very technical aspect, *as well as* a more philosophical one.
Still, not automatically giving Milei credibility for having been 'duped', who knows. He did always seem pretty ignorant of what Bitcoin is about though; I think he admitted as much.
A less extreme example than this Milei one is Jeffrey Tucker, who fell hook line and sinker for Roger Ver's sales pitch that "Core is evil". The arguments about scalability have a very technical aspect, *as well as* a more philosophical one.
Still, not automatically giving Milei credibility for having been 'duped', who knows. He did always seem pretty ignorant of what Bitcoin is about though; I think he admitted as much.