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haikyuutrash11 · 6 years

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GET TO KNOW ME!

1: My name? Jess, but most online people call me Jet

2: Do I have any nicknames? I have loads of nicknames and I pretty much answer to slurred words too lmao

3: Zodiac sign? Taurus

4: Video game I play to chill, not to win? Overwatch

5: Book/series I reread? Junjou romantica and a few others

6: Aliens or ghosts? I like both... but I guess aliens

7: Writer I trust enough to read whatever they write? @yakulev-trash

8: Favourite radio station? don't have one... oh wait... maybe kerrang

9: Favourite flavour of anything? toffee

10: The word that I use all the time to describe something great? sick

11: Favourite song? worst question to ever be asked... fuck knows fam

12: The question you ask new friends to get to know them better? got any kinks? lmao

13: Favourite word? yaaaars

14: The last person who hurt me, did I forgive them? my ex and no I do not

15: Last song I listened to? post Malone better now

16: TV show I always recommend? the big bang theory or anything Michael McIntyre

17: Pirates or ninjas? ninjas

18: Movie I watch when I'm feeling down? I don't really watch a lot of films to be honest

19: Song that I always start my shuffle with/wake-up song/always-on-a-loop song? at the moment BTS- idol ft minaj

20: Favourite video games? overwatch, rayman, bloodbourne

21: What am I most afraid of? losing my son

22: A good quality of mine? non judgemental

23: A bad quality of mine? quick to assume

24: Cats or dogs? dogs

25: Actor/actress you trust enough to watch whatever they're in? Jason stathem

26: Favourite season? winter

27: Am I in a relationship? no im happily single

28: Something I miss? lay ins

29: My best friend? Jody and wife

30: Eye colour? blue

31: Hair colour? at the moment its half purple half red

32: Someone I love? Yaku! my omega :D

33: Someone I trust? my mum

34: Someone I always think about? my son

35: Am I excited about anything? Haikyuu season 4

36: My current obsession? Reinhardt x Lucio smut

37: Favourite TV shows as a child? Sailor moon and digimon

38: Do I have someone of the opposite sex that I can tell everything to? yeah, my gay American friend Jacob

39: Am I superstitious? nahhhh

40: �� What do I think about most? getting all my shit sorted

41: Do I have any strange phobias? ……. nunu from teletubies and wind turbines

42: Do I prefer to be in front of the camera or behind it? behind it

43: Favourite hobbies? writing, gaming, painting, drawing

44: Last book I read? deviations submissions

45: Last film I watched? 47 ronin

46: Do I play any instruments? I used to play the violin and guitar. but don't anymore, although I do want to learn piano

47: Favourite animal? leopard

48: Top 5 blog on Tumblr that I follow? bun that

49: Superpower I wish I could have? telekinesis

50: How do I destress? vape

51: Do I like confrontation? mate I love that shit

52: When do I feel most at peace? when im cuddling my son

53: What makes me smile? a few things... okay a lot of things but too many things to name

54: Do I sleep with the lights on or off? off, what made man sleeps with them on?!?!

55: Play any sports? pfffffft

56: What is my song of the week? why is there so many song questions

57: Favourite drink? milk

58: When did I last send a handwritten letter to somebody? ………… hand...…. written...…. letter?

59: Afraid of heights? nope

60: Pet peeve? chewing gum loudly

61: What was the last concert I went to see? reading festival and I only went to see metallica lol

62: Am I vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian? no

63: What occupation did I want to do when I was younger? red arrow pilot

64: Have I ever had a friend turn enemy? yeah

65: What fictional universe would I like to be a part of? Haikyuu… and I would be such a slut lol

66: Something I worry about? all the legal stuff im going through right now

67: Scared of the dark? embrace the dark

68: Who are my best friends? what... like you want me to name them all?????

69: What do I admire most about others? honesty. if a person is honest with me all the way through then I will really appreciate them

70: Can I sing? don't think so

71: Something I wish I could do? dance and play the piano

72: If I won the lottery, what would I do? treat my mum and dad to what ever they wanted and the fly over to Hawaii and be with my omega and then move to Japan

73: Have I ever skipped school? no kids don't skip school!

74: Favourite place on the planet? Tokyo

75: Where do I want to live? Tokyo

76: Do I have any pets? nope

77: What is my current desktop picture? Kuroo and Tsukki in suits sat on a sofa

78: Early bird or night owl? night owl

79: Sunsets or sunrise? sunsets

80: Can I drive? legally no

81: Story behind my last kiss? goodbye lmao

82: Earphones or headphones? headphones

83: Have I ever had braces? yes for 2 years then I didn't wear my retainer and they moved back lmao

84: Story behind one of my scars? I have a scar at the top of my finger where I caught it in the part of the door where it locks and I was on skates and slipped and chopped my finger off. I went running to my mum and she put the tip back on and rushed me to hospital lmao

85: Favourite genre of music? metal

86: Who is my hero? my mum

87: Favourite comic book character? do overwatch comics count? if so then Genji

88: What makes me really angry? having to repeat myself

89: Kindle or real book? real book

90: Favourite sporty activity? *throws up*

91: What is one thing that isn’t tight in schools that should be? sorting out bullies

92: What was my favourite subject at school?

93: Siblings? yes 3... 2 sisters and 1 brother

94: What was the last thing I bought? bread

95: How tall am I? 5″8

96: Can I cook? yes I can

97: Can I bake? indeed

98: 3 things I love? anime, Tsukki, and petals

99: 3 things I hate? slow updates, not getting haikyuu season 4 and my ex lmao

100: Do I have more girl friends or boy friends? boy friends

101: Who do I get on with better, girls or boys? usually boys

102: Where was I born? Hastings UK

103: Sexual orientation? pansexual

104: Where do I currently live? Hastings

105: Last person I texted? my mum

106: Last time I cried? I couple of weeks ago

107: Guilty pleasure? im not guilty about any of my pleasures ;)

108: Favourite Youtuber? the anime man

109: A photo of myself. nope

110: Do I like selfies? if im the one taking it

111: Favourite game app? summoners war

112: My relationship with my parents? really good with mum and a bit rocky with dad

113: Favourite accents? Australian

114: A place I have not been but wish to visit? Hawaii to visit my omega

115: Favourite number? 7

116: Can I juggle? not a chance

117: Am I religious? science

118: Do I like space? yes

119: Do I like the deep ocean? nooooooo

120: Am I much of a daredevil? yeah, stupidly sometimes ahahaha

121: Am I allergic to anything? peanuts

122: Can I curl my tongue? yeah I can ;)

123: Can I wiggle my ears? yeeeeeee

124: Do I like clowns? I don't hate clowns?

125: The Beatles or Elvis? the beatles

126: My current project? wildest dreams

127: Am I a bad loser? sometimes

128: Do I admit when I wrong? yes I do

129: Forest or beach? forest

130: Favourite piece of advice? “each day is a gift and not a given right”

131: Am I a good liar? I am really!!! shit at lying. I twitch and stutter, its not pretty.

132: Hogwarts house / Divergent faction / Hunger Games district? Hogwarts house- Slytherin

133: Do I talk to myself? sometimes

134: Am I very social? I can be

135: Do I like gossip? its like asking if I like to breath

136: Do I keep a journal/diary? nahhhhh

137: Have I ever hopelessly failed a test? I failed a few tests

138: Do I believe in second chances? yeah

139: If I found a wallet full of cash on the ground, what would I do? find the ID and return it

140: Do I believe people are capable of change? no

141: Have I ever been underweight? nahhhhhh

142: Am I ticklish? yes, very...its embarrassing

143: Have I ever been in a submarine? I have but it wasn't going under water lol

144: Have I ever been on a plane? indeed I have

145: In a film about my life, who would I cast as myself, friends and family? rebel Wilson to be me, Melissa McCarthy to be my mum lol

146: Have I ever been overweight? yeah still am a thic bit ahaha

147: Do I have any piercings? yes I have 10

148: Which fictional character do I wish was real? Tsukki or Kuroo maybe even Yamaguchi for best friend material or Tanaka for banta

149: Do I have any tattoos? yes I have 4

150: What is the best decision I have made in life so far? to break up with my ex lmao

151: Do I believe in Karma? 100%

152: Do I wear glasses or contacts? no I have perfect vision

153: What was my first car? n/a

154: Do I want children? if I didn't then I would be pretty fucked now ahaha

155: Who is the most intelligent person I know? I did have a friend called Aaron and he was very very very very smart

156: My most embarrassing memory? I don't get embarrassed

157: What makes me nostalgic? the smell of clay

158: Have I ever pulled an all-nighter? yes many times

159: Which do I value more in others, brains or beauty? brains

160: What colour mostly dominates my wardrobe? black lmao!!

161: Have I ever had a paranormal experience? yeah loads lol

162: What do I hate most about myself? my weight

163: What do I love most about myself? ugh.... my humour lol

164: Do I like adventure? hell yeah!

165: Do I believe in fate? yes I do

166: Favourite animal? …. wasn't this already asked? well in case you forgot! leopard

167: Have I ever been on radio? nope

168: Have I ever been on TV? yes I have hehehehe

169: How old am I? 25

170: One of my favourite quotes? because we don't have wings we look for ways to fly

171: Do I hold grudges? a few

172: Do I trust easily? no I really don't

173: Have I learnt from my mistakes? yeah, its important to always learn from your mistakes

174: Best gift I’ve ever received? a child

175: Do I dream? I dream big fam

176: Have I ever had a night terror? yeah and its fucking horrible and wouldn't wish it upon anyone!!

177: Do I remember my dreams, and what is one that comes to mind? I do remember most of my dreams. one that comes to mind was a very very smutty one between a haikyuu pairing but I wont say it because ill be adding it to wildest dreams hehehehehe

178: An experience that has made me stronger? a break up from a long term relationship has made me grow as a person

179: If I were immortal, what would I do? try and become what ive always wanted to

180: Do I like shopping? I love shopping but only if I know what im going for or if I have money to spend

181: If I could get away with a crime, what would I choose to do? murder

182: What does “family” mean to me? it means home

183: What is my spirit animal? a leopard or a bunny lol

184: How do I want to be remembered? I want to be remembered for having a sense of humour and for being very accepting

185: If I could master one skill, what would I choose? dancing

186: What is my greatest failure? not passing some gcse’s

187: What is my greatest achievement? becoming a mum

188: Love or money? love

189: Love or career? career

190: If I could time travel, where and when would I want to go? to the future about 5 years

191: What makes me the happiest? when my son is laughing and when I talk to the people I love

192: What is “home” to me? home is where the heart is

193: What motivates me? ive had to be my own motivator most of my life

194: If I could choose my last words, what would they be? just lost the game

195: Would I ever want to encounter aliens? yeah but the seem to only kid nap dumb arses

196: A movie that scared me as a child? robo cop lmao

197: Something I hated as a child that I like now? toad in the hole

198: Zombies or vampires? vampires

199: Live in the city or suburbs? city

200: Dragons or wizards? dragons

201: A nightmare that has stayed with me? dunno

202: How do I define love? it cant be defined by another person, each person has to figure out there own type of love and for what reason and if it matters to them then no one else can judge

203: Do I judge a book by its cover? hell no I don't! I love people for who they are as a person not there appearance ��

204: Have I ever had my heart broken? yes of course

205: Do I like my handwriting? nahhhh my hand writing is horrible

206: Sweet or savoury? savoury

207: Worst job I’ve had? caravan park... cleaning them ><

208: Do I collect anything? anime stuff!!! :D

209: Item of clothing or jewellery you’ll never see me without? shoes lmao!

210: What is on my bucket list? to move to Japan, to learn Japanese, to become an author, to learn an instrument.... the list goes on

211: How do I handle anger? not very well ahahahaha

212: Was I named after anyone? no I wasn't

213: Do I use sarcasm a lot? pfffft me? would I ever? of course not! *looks to the corner*

214: What TV character am I most like? ermmmmmmmmmmmm I would say a mix between Rosa from Brooklyn nine nine and Michael McIntyre

215: What is the weirdest talent I have? erm… I can twitch my nose and move my ears at the same time without touching them

216: Favourite fictional character? Tsukki

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cryptswahili · 5 years

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Wendy McElroy: Interview With Jeffrey Tucker on All Things Crypto, Part Two

Interview with Jeffrey Tucker on All Things Crypto, Part Two

Conducted by Wendy McElroy

The multi-faceted Jeffrey Tucker is an American writer who focuses on market freedom, anarcho-capitalism, and cryptotech. He is the author of eight books on economics, politics, and culture, a much-sought after conference speaker, and an Internet entrepreneur. Jeffrey is editorial director and vice president of the venerable American Institute for Economic Research, founded in 1933. His career has focused on building many of the web’s primary portals for commentary and research on liberty, and is undertaking new adventures in publishing today.

I have incredible good fortune, as Jeff has written the preface to my book “The Satoshi Revolution,” which will be published in early 2019 by bitcoin.com. Meanwhile, a rough draft of the book is available online for free, compliments of bitcoin.com. Be sure to come back for the substantially-rewritten and thoroughly-edited book. I expect there will be a forum established here for me to chat with readers and answer their questions.

To access Part One of this interview, please click here.

Wendy: I was very impressed by an article in which you argued against the idea that Misesian regression theorem invalidated bitcoin as a money. For readers, the Regression theorem claims “Any valid medium of exchange (money) has to have a previous use as something else.” Could you offer an overview of your argument?

Jeff: Mises’s argument was that the root value of money traces to a conjectural history in which the pre-money form was deployed, for example, in barter. By 1949, Mises became hardened in this view: money had to originate in barter; there is no other path. From a historical point of view, this is probably correct. But it is a theoretically misleading formulation.

To understand the theory behind the conjectural history, you have to return to Mises’s original 1912 argument. Here he is more precise. In order for something to become money, it had to have a pre-existing use value. Use value. That’s not the same thing as being used in barter trade. His point was that you can’t take a useless thing and call it money and expect it to take flight.

How can we reconstruct the history of Bitcoin to discern if this applies here? From the January 2009 genesis block until October of that year, Bitcoin’s posted dollar exchange value was exactly $0. And yet we know, because we have a perfect historical record, that there were many thousands of trades being made all these 10 months. What was happening? What was going on? This was a period in which the network was being tested by enthusiasts. What does this network do? It permits the peer-to-peer exchange of immutable information packets on a geographically non-contiguous basis using the Internet so that they can come and go without corruption or compromise.

Is this a valuable service and does it work? This is what was being tested. By October, the use value of this network had proven itself, and so we began to see the emergence of a dollar/Bitcoin exchange ratio. That is to say, Bitcoin was priced as a scarce good. We can see, then, that the conditions of the “Regression Theorem” as theory are met via the services provided by the blockchain. You can also see, however, that if an economist looking at this did not understand the payment system embedded as part of the monetary technology, he or she would be completely befuddled.

To be sure, some very smart people disagree with me. My friend William Luther is blunt about his opinion about his matter. He thinks the Regression Theorem is just wrong, so it doesn’t matter if Bitcoin is theoretically compliant. He once made the argument to me and pretty much backed me into a corner. If he turns out to be correct, I’m fine with that. What matters more, my theory or existing reality? I faced that problem in early 2013 and concluded that I had, as a matter of intellectual integrity, to defer to reality, even if it meant admitting the wrongness of my position or even that of Mises’s. Shocking, I know!

Wendy: The crypto community parallels the libertarian one, in ways both good and bad. An example of the latter is the deep personal schisms with which it is rift. You are a person who stays away from internecine battles. What advice do you have to others who wish to do the same?

Jeff: I try to stay focused on the big picture and imagine that my audience is not my friend network but rather the general public. I try to serve that readership. That means no Twitter wars. No flame wars at all. Plus, I’ve seen vast destruction spread by vicious internecine battles. I’ve seen friendships wrecked, bad theory perpetrated by virtue of ego alone, massive setbacks take place in understanding and marketing. Also, there are some people who are ideologically attached to the friend/enemy distinction. Unless they are smashing someone and hitting “the enemy” they think they are not working. It’s extremely strange how some people thrive off this posture.

To be sure, I have no trouble taking a stand, as I have when libertarians have wrongly drifted left and right. Why? I like to seek greater intellectual clarity and share my thoughts with others, in hopes that I can help others understand too. I’m not seeking saints and not looking to burn witches. I try to choose my battles carefully and stay focused on doing productive work, cooperating with anyone who thinks, writes, and acts in good faith. That’s the main thing to ask yourself, not “Who have you destroyed today?” but rather, “What kind of light have I brought to the world today?”

Wendy: Different explanations of crypto’s recent plunge in price have been advanced. Some people point to increased government regulation, especially in China and in the U.S., where the SEC is taking active steps against the crypto community. Many believe the tumble resulted from a bursting bubble that was created by surging prices earlier in 2018. Still others speak of manipulation by “the whales.” These explanations are not mutually exclusive, of course. But do you favor one over the other? Do you have another explanation?

Jeff: It’s impossible to untangle all of this, and many of the factors you name are right, but let me add another issue. The amazing bull market of 2017 was fueled by wild optimism and adoption. People in the space were ready to rock. Then this optimism was massively interrupted by a terrible realization. Bitcoin would not scale. It stopped behaving like Bitcoin and started becoming more expensive and slower than regular credit cards. To use street parlance, it sucked. It was an amazing thing to have happened. It was a true calamity. And to top it off, it was completely the fault of the guardians of the code. When the code would not adapt to broader use, the optimism turned to pessimism and we experienced a huge setback.

By the way, I’ve worked for years with people who are geniuses at code but completely stupid when it comes to the user experience. It was the tragedy of Bitcoin that it fell prey to exactly this same problem. Coders desperately desire cleanliness, zero bloat, no cruft, perfect logic. It’s an old joke in the community that a coder invites you to use his new program but all you see on the black screen is a blinking green cursor. “Of course I still have to write the user interface.”

The OCD-ish mind of coders is a great thing for some purposes but this outlook has never prevailed in the commercial marketplace. In the early 1990s, there was a great battle over word processors. Microsoft kept making Word larger and larger, puffed with cruft, and the code monkeys were screaming that this was a disaster in the making. For my own part, I hated Word in those days and completely agreed that the hard-to-use light-weight programs were better.

But guess what? The market disagreed. Moore’s Law kicked it as it always does and eventually Word destroyed the competition. Why? Because it had more features that users like. Eventually the code got clean again and now Word itself has many elegant competitors. This is the normal progression of any software with a consumer focus.

Incredibly, some people with the keys to the kingdom of Bitcoin actually came to imagine that they could develop a digital money without an efficient, consumer-focussed use case. They drove a wedge between two functions: store of value and medium of exchange. This is not how much work. One function depends on the other. The freeze in the development of Bitcoin, in the name of staying light and elegant, was a fool’s errand. During all the scaling debates of 2014-16, they dug in their heels, shouting slogans, guarding their small blocks, instead of thinking about adoption and scaling when the time came.

When the time did come, Bitcoin did not perform. It fact – and it pains me to say this – it completely flopped.

Old school Bitcoiners like me were horrified to see it all happening. It was like an old friend had become possessed. When the mempools exploded, and the miners were in a position to ration trades based on price, it would cost $20 to send $2. This was in the fall and winter of 2017. It was absolutely disgraceful, and all the more so because the newly emergent “maximalists” defended this preposterous reality, acting if as this was part of the plan all along. They were like PeeWee Herman explaining that when he fell off the bike that he “meant to do that.” They flagrantly ignored even the title of the White Paper. Then the fork came in August of 2017, as it necessarily had to. But then followed a tremendous explosion of tokens of all sorts.

I don’t regret the competition, and I think this is all a good thing. I’m not a Bitcoin Maximalist. I’m a Competition Maximalist. But the absurdities of Bitcoin’s performance could have been completely avoided with just a bit of concern for the user. I would love it if we could perform a controlled experiment and see the BTC price today if the thing had properly scaled. We can’t do that. We have the reality we have.

Privately, of course, Bitcoin Core developers will admit that this was a disaster and that scaling will eventually take place on the chain. But at this point, pride and arrogance had gotten the best of them. How long will they continue to promise the Lightning Network while showing no concern for the use case? It’s time for a bit of humility.

To be sure, the Lightning Network is super great. We run a node at the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy. I look forward to its final stability and adoption. The problem is that this was proposed as an eventual solution to the scaling problem that currently exists. Real-time technological development has to deal with problems in real time according to the time schedule of the market rate of adoption. Markets don’t obey code architects; the reverse has to be the case. Bitcoin Core forgot that at the very point it mattered most.

Wendy: Whatever the probable explanation(s), do you have a sense of when or whether crypto markets are likely to rebound significantly? Do you have a sense of what will cause a rebound or prevent one?

Jeff: Like all enthusiasts, I do expect a turnaround. Remember that I’ve been in these markets since BTC was $14. I’ve seen wild swings and long periods of nothingness. I’m prepared for anything.

Wendy: A debate within crypto parallels one I have heard between gold bugs. That is, should one take physical possession of precious metals, or they can be stored with reputable entities. In crypto, the parallel argument is whether coins should be in private wallets with undisclosed keys, or can they be stored with exchanges that do not demand possession of the keys?

Jeff: That is an interesting parallel! I think it is a valid one. I’m disappointed with the rise of what are effectively Bitcoin Banks that now dominate the market. I’ve reluctantly concluded that there is indeed a demand for financial intermediation, even within crypto. Here is a case where my own preferences are being overridden by market choice. That said, intermediation in crypto is not going to have the problems that it does in a central banking world. We have transparency. We have clear lines of ownership. We know the difference between money and a money substitute. I don’t necessarily think that intermediation is an evil thing in the crypto world.

Wendy: Any other thoughts you’d like to share on this subject?

Jeff: I would council Bitcoiners and anyone who sees the potential of this technology to be patient. Think back to railroads and how they came to be. The headlines were all about land speculation, wildcat banks, stock fraud, bankruptcies, and crashes. The reality, in the end, was a transformed world. It was true with the Internet too. People said for years that no one could make money on the Internet. The dotcom crash of 2000 seemed to prove it. Now Internet commerce leads the world. It will be a long time before crypto becomes competitive with nationalized money, and even longer before the pundit class comes around.

The important point is that we have the knowledge. We have the technology. We know now that it is possible. It can be done. There is no longer any excuse for not turning over the production and management of money itself to the market.

Also let us not forget what matters most. Bitcoin is a technology but the goal is much more grand: a better, more peaceful, more prosperous world. I’ve seen it myself how this works. When you pull down the barriers, when you provide opportunities for people to cooperate, beautiful things happen. I see it constantly at the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy. This is a place where people from all walks of life come together in a spirit of joyful cooperation to build the future. This inspires me more than anything else and points to the kind of future that can be built by a P2P technology. It’s a microcosm of what life in the cryptocon can be like.

Wendy: Thank you, Jeff! This has been fascinating.

[To be continued next week.]

Reprints of this article should credit Bitcoin.com and include a link back to the book

Wendy McElroy has “published” her new book The Satoshi Revolution exclusively with Bitcoin.com. However, things aren’t over yet. Every Saturday you’ll find another installment in a series of interviews about sections of the book with people like Doug Casey, L.Neil Smith, Jeff Tucker, Carl Watner…and so on. Altogether they’ll make up her new book ”The Satoshi Revolution”.

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