This Michael Saylor Tucker Carlson interview might be more important than we might think...
Wow just wow... that was the first time that I saw Saylor dancing around the topic of Bitcoin's peer to peer capabilities, and surely it is amazing that either Saylor believes that Bitcoin's peer to peer capabilities can meaningfully be regulated away or challenged in such a way that is NOT going to cause a lot of backlash from individuals who are either wanting to use bitcoin in peer to peer ways or those people who are developing systems around bitcoin's peer to peer powers.
Look at the video starting at about minute 56 that leads up to Saylor's squirminess in terms of talking about bitcoin's peer to peer capabilities (which kind of peeks around the 1 hour mark) and also presuming that bitcoin's peer to peer can meaningfully/substantially get regulated away.... It is kind of funny that TuckerC is trying to get into some of the nitty gritty of talking about peer to peer capabilities of bitcoin and even asserts that he is not so excited about every single human activity (referring to financial transactions, too) should be monitored or captured by some government. Saylor responds by outlining bitcoin's peer to peer capabilities as if it were some after-thought use case when in fact bitcoin is intrinsically
(hesitant to use that word) capable to be used peer to peer by directly saying to another person.,. Hey, I got some bitcoin in this phone, usb stick, other device, piece of paper, memorized by these words, blah blah blah.. would you give me that chicken if I send you those bitcoins
(same as saying satoshis or whatever)... so yeah, any of us can do it once we have the capability which various forms of accomplishing such direct transferrnces are increasing with the passage of time and within various creative imaginations in which such varying user interfaces might not have yet been completely imagined, yet.. such as, the 6,913 sats are contained in that picture that I am carrying and you can check it when you get home... since we are neighbors, we are o.k. with making such transfer on the spot...and I get the chicken..and you get the picture.
https://youtu.be/ax7LRJz7VnA?t=3347Same thing is true when TuckerC makes the humorous comment about putting money laundering and terrorism in air quotes, and they both get a chuckle out of it while Saylor diverts into some way of talking that is likely less risky... (he's been decently well briefed by his lawyers top be careful with those kinds of topics - outside of talking over a beer in which no one is recording the conversation)...
Back to peer to peer power of our lilie fiend
(aka honey badger, aka king daddy, aka you know what I am talking about Willis) course, each of us are entitled to develop and maintain our differing preferences regarding bitcoin's varying use cases and also regarding what we believe makes bitcoin valuable.. and for sure, Saylor remains amongst the better of the articulate public advocates regarding varying bitcoin value propositions.... yet it still remains interesting regarding how he actually squirms regarding the peer to peer nature of bitcoin, and maybe his lack of anonymity and his heading of a public company and even his ongoing aggressiveness in his company's use of debt to invest in bitcoin (a kind of attack on the dollar) contributes to his having to be careful regarding how far he is ready, willing and able to go in terms of talking about (or emphasizing) various aspects of bitcoin's ongoing peer to peer powers.. that are not going to go away even if guys like Saylor avoid it, squirm about it or divert into other areas (like spinning the subject matter differently).
By the way, if you really listen to Saylor he is still proclaiming bitcoin to be powerful in the peer to peer transferring capabilities, he is just refusing to frame it in the kind of peer to peer language that we all know bitcoin is capable of doing, so in the end, we should give few shits that Saylor is avoiding talking about direct transfer of bitcoin between individuals because such presumption that we are able to do that cannot be removed from bitcoin merely because someone like Saylor does not want to talk about bitcoin that way.. and likely he stays out of jail by NOT talking about bitcoin in that kind of way.