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Unreal Stupidity: How Kamala Harris’ Capital Gains Tax Could Unravel the Economy and Usher in Authoritarianism
In late August of 2024, Kamala Harris’ Economics Advisor, Bharat Rama, appeared on CNBC, confirming Harris’ intention to tax unrealized capital gains. This disclosure would have been met with universal shock and disgust if only voters understood how this sort of tax works and the havoc it would cause. Since most people can’t even define…
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Bitcoin Basics: Key Information for Beginners
Bitcoin is the most important invention to emerge so far this century. But it takes time to understand—its brilliance won’t dawn on you all at once. Bitcoin enthusiasts often say you need about a hundred hours of study to even begin to know what you’re talking about. That figure sounds right to me. I’ve put…
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Apple’s Trillion Dollar Bitcoin Question that Nobody’s Asking
It’s now been a couple days since the story broke that a copy of Satoshi’s Bitcoin whitepaper has been hidden away in every copy of MacOS since 2018, which are installed on about 100 million laptops in all. This story has generated loads of coverage, and I follow scads of Bitcoiners on Twitter. Yet somehow,…