Saifedean Ammous ✓
@saifedean · joined 30 Dec 2008
Author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard, The Gold Standard & Principles of Economics! Sold more than a million copies in 39 languages!
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@saifedean Maybe you can adjust your article:
With heat reuse you can get zero energy cost which, actually, can lead to much higher power going towards bitcoin mining.
This power is not “consumed” by bitcoin mining. It’s used for the same heating purpose as before, just with m
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@saifedean Mining electricity consumption may peak, but it does not mean that security budget issues disappear. At present, transaction fees still only account for a very small portion of miners' income. After reducing poverty by half in 2028, security expenditures will rely more
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@saifedean This was probably the investment ratio of the late John McAfee 😆
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@saifedean I think $10k drugs would still beat treasuries as a store of value.
More liquid market too! 😅
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@saifedean mining peaking my ass. network's humming not choking. saifedean's full of it.
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Bitcoin mining may have peaked and never again reach the size and electricity consumption it achieved last year. I argue why, how we can know, and what it means.
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Why Bitcoin mining may stop growing, and what it means. https://t.co/ze44DKL9aH
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15 years ago, if you did the responsible thing & bought $10,000 of 'risk-free' long-term Treasuries, you'd have $11,072 today.
If instead you spent $9,995 on drugs & $5 on bitcoin, you'd have $42,778 today. https://t.co/GGE7k78t4L
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The insanity was induced by the drugs, so her psychiatrist & pharmaceutical company should be found guilty along with her. That'd fix the overprescription & mental health crises pretty quickly, as the only actual mental illness is taking psychiatric medication.
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There are 150 trillion government shitcoins, growing at ~7% per year.
There are 20 million bitcoin, growing at 0.8% per year, a rate dropping by half every four years.
Guess that happens next.
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There are still people on this earth who think Israel is just defending itself and looking for security when its own leaders have been openly saying things like this for a century.
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There is practically nothing worth reading in all of Keynes' moronic writings except this. This explains all of Keynesian economics: the literal and financial rape of the next generation.
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Lindsay Clancy likely to found not guilty by reason of insanity. @drjosef explains why. https://t.co/hF4WHyEPrj
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"I'm leaving for Egypt … I shall get as far as Luxor; and have just heard that 'bed and boy' is prepared. I'm travelling luxe and feel very magnificent."
-John Maynard Keynes, letter to his gay lover Giles Lytton Strachey (6 May 1913). https://t.co/7hKewDZe2q
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Understanding Bitcoin will change how you see the world.
https://t.co/fbxKypmOYH is your guide - featuring books by @LynAldenContact, @parkeralewis, @matthewlysiak, @RicardoBSalinas, and me -including The Bitcoin Standard, which has sold more than 1 million copies in 39 https://
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views20 686this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %4.88%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.74%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 20 686 | 5 983 | 3.46× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.88% | 1.49% | 3.28× |
| Engagement rate | 1.74% | 0.93% | 1.87× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
65.2K25 Aug
51.1K2 Sep
19K
128.8K
22.4K3 Sep
470.3K15 Sep
11.5K
124.2K
57.3K
183
7.1K
2.2K
209
144
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.39%25 Aug
2.26%2 Sep
1.84%
1.97%
1.18%3 Sep
2.79%15 Sep
0.53%
0.36%
0.70%
1.64%
2.44%
1.93%
1.44%
2.08%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes78.8%19 454 in total
Reposts8.6%2 110 in total
Replies2.9%707 in total
Quotes1.3%321 in total
Bookmarks8.4%2 085 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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