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As an Argentine, I agree.

This article "blames" everything that is wrong with Argentina on an "enemy" figure. It is generally accepted that monetary policy has a lead time of at least a couple of months (it took the FED at least one year [1]). The causal relationship implied in the article, regarding having a record high inflation in the month of January is pretty unlikely.

[1]: https://time.com/6227633/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-...

It's blatantly false that "Bitcoin Core was purchased by Blockstream".

It's absolutely not the case. It's more like a conspiracy theory that keeps getting pushed into Bitcoin-related threads at Hacker news (maybe to tilt future analysis?)

If we take a look at the past month of commits from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse/monthly, the top ten authors are:

- MarcoFalke

- fanquake

- hebasto

- ajtowns

- glozow

- ismaelsaadeq

- TheCharlatan

- instagibbs

- brunoerg

- mzumsande

None of them works at Blockstream.

When you say "long ago", it likely points to the "Bitcoin Cash" incident. Almost every person that knows of Bitcoin Cash thinks that Bitcoin is a scam; almost everyone else laughs at the idea of Bitcoin Cash working.

Long ago, that was also the case: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/61blfg/blockstream...

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As an advertiser, I'm not sure that I care about "brand damage" for fake accounts that only follow nazis, with fake traffic generated; just don't charge me for it.

I agree that "suing journalists" is scary, as the author says. But "media watch" is not "journalists", it's an NGO.

The other side of the story is that this is intimidation and fraud, thus, it's not protected by free speech:

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037

2. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1726653530218619018

3. https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1726671127840493811