<div dir="auto"><div>I did not write this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason <br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 23, 2026, 6:51 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 7:55 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Every single person or entity that has bet against Bitcoin has ultimately lost. Over and over again. Companies, governments, institutions, individuals.</i></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Because that happened in the past you use induction to conclude that "</b><i><b><font face="georgia, serif">Bitcoin will overcome the quantum challenge as well</font></b></i><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">"; </b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>but induction is just a heuristic rule of thumb that usually works because most things usually stay the same most of the time, however eventually induction will always fail<span class="gmail_default">,</span> and that's why predicting the future is so difficult. </b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Thanks to technological improvement Polaroid and Eastman Kodak stock started out being worth almost nothing but <span class="gmail_default">they </span>grew at an enormous rate into the stratosphere. However the technological improvements didn't stop and because of that the stock price of both companies reversed directions and crashed down to earth; bankruptcy was declared and today both stocks are worth precisely nothing.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Past consistency does not guarantee future outcomes. An inductively minded turkey might note that the farmer feeds it every day without fail and the bird uses that information to conclude that the farmer's arrival always means food, and that conclusion prove<span class="gmail_default">d</span> to be correct<span class="gmail_default"></span> for 364 days<span class="gmail_default">,</span> but on the 365th day, Thanksgiving, the farmer chopped the turkey's head off. </b></font><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Bitcoin is simply too useful and too deeply integrated into a massive global financial ecosystem at this point.</i></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Useful?<span class="gmail_default"> Using vast amounts of energy to solve silly hash puzzles is not useful, it's equivalent to building pyramids, or digging holes and then immediately filling them up again. Bitcoin has turned super sophisticated data centers into overly elaborate space heaters that do nothing except turn electricity into heat. And this ridiculous situation will not continue forever. </span></b></font><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"> John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div></div>
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