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Meanwhile, Palantir announces an interest in accepting Bitcoin payments and investing in cryptocurrencies.[1] Leading from behind!

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-palantir-allows-payments-bi...

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Peter Thiel is full pro-Bitcoin.

Is that the same Peter Thiel who famously talked about how China was pushing bitcoin to destabilize the dollar?

Yep, if you listen to the whole exchange and read through the lines, he's essentially saying to US leadership either we innovate and build with this or we let our main competitor take over.

Is that how he feels about surveillance, too? Is that why he's building probably the evilest corporation out there?

Palantir shares have been basically bombing for months now. Banks have repeatedly lowered their estimates of where the company's financials are going mid-term. The company's C-level execs have been dumping their stock in huge quantities. At this point, it's looking pretty likely that Palantir went public so that its executives can finally cash out after 18 years of no profits, and then sell itself to someone like IBM.

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