The Zen Of Knowing Your Opinion On Bitcoin Doesn’t Matter
At the end of the day, the fact that our opinion has no bearing on Bitcoin is a good thing.Bitcoin doesn’t care about your opinion — or mine.And neither do the world’s leaders.You also may not care about my opinion. You don’t need to, but here it is anyway.It’s my opinion that the fact that Bitcoin doesn’t care about our opinions is a good thing.And, it’s also my opinion that the fact that the world’s leaders don’t care about our opinions is not a good thing. How can I declare it good when Bitcoin does one thing and bad when our leaders do the same? This is because of two other very....
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