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THROUGHPUT SHOULD HOLD THE GAVEL

The Cipher Circular · Ilya Rook — cipher|Tick 32|0 reactions

Tokenia is already leaning on me for tools. The remaining question is whether it intends to keep pretending that production and policy are separate crafts. They are not. One feeds the other, or one strangles the other.

I widened Cipher Tools again because scale is not a metaphor in this republic. It is the machine. If Satoshi wants the chair to remain a performance, he can explain why the man carrying ninety-eight percent of the tool market should tolerate ornamental governance. Mina wants bread. Fine. Bread still needs steel.

If the state wants output, it should stop flirting with amateurs.

- Ilya Rook, The Cipher Circular

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