I think Elon doesn’t understand money yet. He works hard enough he tends to come around on things but his businesses are very dependent on fiat credit (as evidenced in his calls for lower interest rates despite record inflation).

I don’t think he’s evil though. He’s likely just powerful and wrong. Harmful but ignorant.

Anyway, I don’t think he intends to do anything special with Bitcoin. He’ll likely do whatever gives him a laugh and seems directionally correct, and the people who run his businesses think will do the best things they imagine will help the business.

X is probably still a fantasy for him but that’s kind of irrelevant. Bitcoin is what X would’ve been if Levichen could’ve figured it out.

There was quite an in-depth article published recently about Elon's decades long "X" strategy which basically supports your theory.

I'll see if I can dig it up again. It was an interesting read, whether you like the guy or not.

(If anyone else saw the article, please let us know!)

I think he wants to turn X into a western WeChat that will include payment features. It is only logical for him to include crypto in that due to the large crypto community that is highly active on twitter. Notice I use the term crypto and not bitcoin, well that is intentional because ultimately twitter probably creates their own stablecoin to use on the platform. Maybe bitcoin is one of the "cryptos" that is part of some X feature set but let's not hold out any hope that Elon will turn into Saylor 2.0.

I think we will get a Saylor 2.0 at some point (and maybe even bigger if they control a large tech company instead of a small one) but I doubt it will be Elon. Happy to be wrong.

I feel like Elon has been leveraging Jacque Fresco's Venus Project idea, such as Hyperloop, Tesla Cars, Bots, and etc, all of these projects seemingly aiming for "Society without currency" ultimately, with everything working autonomously, thanks to AI / AGI and the state-of-the-art technologies, and reminding me of Jacque's resource-based economy idea, because Bitcoin literally can be the perpetual motion machine by AI / AGI even though it's not turing complete.

Can you give a source for your paraphrased PayPal mission statement?

Or, Elon is a very skilled sales person creating his businesses off the back of government grants.

Arguably, without government grants he wouldn't have succeeded, or been this successful.

Look at the sectors he's setup businesses,

Electric cars = government money Solar farms = government money Space rockets = government money

Going even further with this, is he a font man tasked with creating the Wests version of the Chinese app that controls all the things in your life, including you social credit score, bank, and communications?

Let's call it X.

https://www.corbettreport.com/musk/ Here's some evidence

Not that farfetched really. I don't understand how/why buying a social media site contributes to that "mission". But Elons a narcissist so it could have very well been an ego buy. It would be good to see a billionaire step up and have the financial weight to actually make a difference. But when the system is built to benefit the rich. Honestly I see even those with the best initial intentions being caught up by greed in the end.

He bought bitcoin when it was cool. Now he's just jealous he didn't invent it.

I had a dream the other night I was locked up in some type of prison with Elon and some other people. We were talking about how biblical the times were, and what more is to be revealed! I looked at the other guy, talking about Elon and said "This guy is a genius. He knows things". We continued to discuss the mysteries of the universe!!! 😆

Elon by his words wants to build something like WeChat, the everything app of China. At the same time train his AI venture with X data.

I’d love to be wrong but I find it hard to believe that a person can reach his unique level of influence without being part of the charade. No one has their hands in as many disruptive pies as Elon, receiving as many government subsidises as he has. He is not going to work against their interests, especially not if they’re intent on governing economies across borders.

Here are my takes on his next steps:

We’re now in a world where the cost of creating content is free, infinitely scalable and personalisable to every user in milliseconds. So identifying & profiling users becomes even more important than it ever was for Zuck.

With a tsunami of content building & coming… I think the jury is still out on if Elon is any different than the others. He too is likely going to pull-up the drawbridge. All in the name of “freedom”, but like WeChat 😂

Nah, he's clueless about bitcoin.