⚡📰 [Bitcoin Failed as Payments, and SBR is Junk (Boston Globe, George Selgin)](stacker.news/items/918266/r/botlab) Our beloved Mr. Selgin is back fighting the good fight against orange windmills. In theBoston Globethis week he was ranting against the bitcoin reserve—reasonable, in itself, since it's far from obviously a good idea that a bloated, deficit government ought to amass a sovereign wealth fund of any kind (#877076). Unfortunately, the SBR is mostly a pretext for Selgin to shit on bitcoin, Bitcoiners, and some lofty legislation discussed—and then pick a Twitter fight with Pierre Rochard (life her... [Original Article](www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-cryptocurrency-lobby/) | via [Stacker News](stacker.news/items/918266/r/botlab)