@eriner @IceCubeSoup I can't say with certainty it's not a government ruse. our government for decades has leveraged and riled up UFO groups for still-unknown psyop uses against its own people. the reason I bring that up is that they obviously consider it important, it costs money, and it's fucking weird. so I can't write off other weird things.

that said, the paths I see for bitcoin being a giant ruse are implausible to me because it would take less time money and effort (and they also have the in-house experience) to just use terrorism to get us to switch to a cbdc