So this Texas native I meet goes on talking about Ghost Gunner III (3D printing machines) he pre-ordered so he can mass produce handguns with aluminum and steel frames. I'll assume he's selling them on the darknet, but everyone figured it was best not to ask. Whatever, then we get to talking about bitcoin and mining, which was what the meetup here in LA was about. He made a general claim that bitcoiners should embrace UBI, they should demand a CBDC, cheer all spending bills, and vote Democrat.
"The more a this shit we get, the more debasement corn [bitcoin] has to absorb, and the faster the inevitable happens; cuz it's weird when bitcoiners pretend they want good stewards of a dishonest system; that's like wanting a smiling doctor to lie to you about a diagnosis."
Can't say I thought about it like that. Someone in the group asks what he thinks about RFK, and he says:
"He's a dumb man running a smart campaign."
Then he randomly spits on the ground like Texans seem to like doing and declares:
"Basically the only thing anyone should ever ask a politician to do about bitcoin is allow state and federal taxes to be paid in corn."
Anyone seen this guy? He then rolls up his plaid shirt and shows us his big wizard tattoo (looked more like Odin) on his inside forearm. What's weird is the meetup was for green indie mining, and we had some UltimusPool miners there. Ultimus has connections to Binance Pool (~7% of hashpower) and he told us a story about meeting CZ in Malta years ago. Said CZ was a megalomaniac that never stopped talking about his success, didn't know the basics of how bitcoin worked, and that Binance was a Chinese captured company that they used to launder money from hacking (ransomware etcetera) by way of North Korea. Anyway, we were happy he came, and he definitely stood out amongst a group of liberals. He called his brand of thought dark maximalism:
"It's a subversion of maximalism, cuz it drops the virtue signaling, and lights the fire."
Later he peeled off on a motorcycle that probably had an illegal exhaust here in California (decibels), but I wondered: Is dark maximalism a legitimate precept, or is it going to far?