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Milton Friedman on Inflation: A Government-Made Disaster 

Milton Friedman on Inflation: A Government-Made Disaster Inflation is not a natural phenomenon but a consequence of government actions. Milton Friedman famously argued that only the government can create inflation, and misguided policies, like price controls, worsen the problem. Friedman Famously Said: ‘Inflation Is Made by Government and No One Else’ Milton Friedman, a leading figure in economics, repeatedly emphasized that inflation […]

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‘Totally Irresponsible’ — Bitcoin Proponents Express Discontent Over Twitter’s Doge Logo Change

‘Totally Irresponsible’ — Bitcoin Proponents Express Discontent Over Twitter’s Doge Logo ChangeAfter the Twitter logo was changed from the original blue bird to a cartoon image of the famous Shiba Inu Doge, the cryptocurrency dogecoin rose significantly in value and is now up 27% more than 12 hours later. However, a number of bitcoin proponents expressed distaste for the logo change, and a few insisted that […]

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Crypto industry was ‘judge, jury and executioner’ for FTX: Pompliano

The crypto investor and Bitcoin bull said that in crypto, market forces tend to eliminate bad people as quickly as bad businesses.

Prolific podcaster and cryptocurrency investor Anthony Pompliano has not lost faith in people or the crypto industry despite the disappointing conduct of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

Bankman-Fried, once widely regarded as crypto’s “white knight” is now a pariah in the crypto industry due to — by his own admission — the “careless” mishandling of FTX customer funds and his ongoing strange behavior on Twitter.

Appearing on Nov. 17 at the Texas Blockchain Summit, Pompliano was asked about how to ensure high-quality representation “in the halls of power,” responding that market forces eliminate bad people as quickly as bad businesses:

“It might be a little counterintuitive, but the free market is a hell of a fucking referee. If you watch what just happened, this industry is who held the industry accountable. […] CZ is the one who used market forces to take that company [FTX] down,” he said.

“At the end of the day, the judge, jury, and executioner was the free market and the industry itself.”

Pompliano continued, “The good people, they survive, the bad people, they end up getting washed out.”

Speaking on CNBC on Nov. 15, Pompliano said, “I think there are a lot of people saying, ‘I don’t have any information. I don’t know what’s going on.’”

Pompliano added he had businesses with money on FTX's platforms and an advertising relationship with the crypto exchange.

Related: Crypto will generate more wealth than the internet, says Morgan Creek Capital CEO

Pompliano, an ardent Bitcoin supporter, founded North Carolina-based Morgan Creek Digital Assets with Mark Yusko in 2018. He also runs the Pomp Crypto Jobs website. He has attracted attention for saying pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, advocated for the inclusion of crypto in pension funds, and dismissed crypto mining’s energy consumption saying, “crucial things in the world use energy.”

Morgan Creek Digital Assets was reportedly putting together an alternative offer for BlockFi before FTX invested $680 million in the crypto lender in a bailout in July.

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Gold Bug Peter Schiff Insists This Is ‘Not a Crypto Winter,’ Economist Says It’s More Like ‘Crypto Extinction’

Gold Bug Peter Schiff Insists This Is ‘Not a Crypto Winter,’ Economist Says It’s More Like ‘Crypto Extinction’Since bitcoin started falling from its all-time high last year, the economist and gold bug, Peter Schiff, made sure everyone knows that he wholeheartedly believes the leading crypto asset will fall to zero. Now that FTX has collapsed, Schiff has doubled down on his belief and he’s wasted no opportunities to dunk on bitcoin throughout […]

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Tornado in the Coal Mine — How Globalists Plan to Penalize Privacy and the Poor

Tornado in the Coal Mine — How Globalists Plan to Penalize Privacy and the PoorNo privacy. No property. No prosperity. If you follow the news, you’ve seen the trend — putting legal limits on cash transactions, the emergence of surveillance-oriented, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more recently, crypto mixing platform Tornado Cash being sanctioned by the United States Treasury. There is a new wave of propaganda increasingly demonizing […]

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Get Real, Lagarde — The Underlying Asset ‘Guaranteeing’ Your Euro Scam Coin Is a Gun

Get Real, Lagarde — The Underlying Asset ‘Guaranteeing’ Your Euro Scam Coin Is a GunWith the approaching tsunami of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) looming ever closer, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when central banks shill their coins at the expense of sounder assets. Recently, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde went so far as to say that cryptocurrency is “worth nothing.” According to Lagarde, crypto has “no […]

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Does Jack Dorsey Support Voluntaryism? Twitter CEO Shares Murray Rothbard’s Book ‘Anatomy of the State’

Does Jack Dorsey Support Voluntaryism? Twitter CEO Shares Murray Rothbard’s Book ‘Anatomy of the State’Ever since the CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, started appreciating the crypto asset bitcoin, crypto enthusiasts have been following his coattails. However, there are very mixed views about Dorsey because while some people adore him, others are skeptical of his goals as his firm has been accused of mass censorship. Then on August […]

Quantum computing will fortify Bitcoin signatures: Adam Back