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Here’s a Lollipop, Jimmy

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There are a number of words that are so over-used that I get annoyed just reading them. “Weaponizing” is one of them. I’m not sure when it came into existence, but these days, especially when referring to government departments, everyone is weaponing this, or weaponizing that.

Another word is “performative“, but I’m afraid it’s appropriate in the case of Bitcoin. The whole obsession with BTC getting to six figures is an utterly performative act, which it managed to achieve last night (with futures, mind you, not the cash market) for all of about 2 milliseconds. After that, it fell $2,000, because why not.

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