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June 26, 2026 · 1h 30m

“I WAS WRONG”: Bitcoin, Nostr, AI & The Reality of Freedom Tech Adoption | Matt Odell

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1 If you can't spend your wealth without permission, you have no wealth.

3 I also didn't expect 90% of influencers were going to go join MSTR clones.

10 And some random schmuck at a tech company can just like type into his computer like, 11 where is Matt usually on a Wednesday?

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If you can't spend your wealth without permission, you have no wealth.

It's fundamentally an IOU.

I also didn't expect 90% of influencers were going to go join MSTR clones.

I felt like at least some of them would hold the line.

Anthropic is also weird too, right?

They're run by Effective Altruists, which is basically a cult.

It's the same cult SBF was a part of.

And they like literally think they're making God.

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NOSTR: https://primal.net/odell

X: https://x.com/ODELLXYZ

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