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Musk has a cult of personality. He's practically a real-life walking talking meme at this point, which seems to be the real driver behind crypto. Could Jeff Bez

Musk has a cult of personality. He's practically a real-life walking talking meme at this point, which seems to be the real driver behind crypto. Could Jeff Bezos or Zuckerberg move bitcoin like that? From a tweet? Doesn't seem likely. Is anyone hyped up about Libra/Diem/whatever the hell it's called now? Musk tweeted about Signal and they went from 50k downloads a day to 1.3M [1]. An unrelated company, Signal Advance, saw their stock soar. Which... I mean... wow. [1] https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-is-signal-everything-you-need-to-know-about-elon-musks-app-recommendation/ https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-is-signal-everything-you-ne...

anm89 5y ago
You're responding to something I didn't say here. I didn't claim that every company would have the exact same outcome as Musk or that he has no advantage. Certainly Musk has an advantage here but other companies could have done the same and probably still succeeded. The odds and outcome would not have been exactly the same, which is true of literally everything in life for different people.
- deckard1 5y ago
  > You're responding to something I didn't say here. ... > other companies could have done the same and probably still succeeded. Come the fuck on. I'm literally replying to this idea that any other company could do the same. Your exact words: > any large company could have pulled it off not just Musk
  - anm89 5y ago
    Premise 1: Musk has an advantage in the markets Premise 2: No company that Musk is not involved with could gain a competitive advantage via the signal they send with a bitcoin purchase. Premise 1 and premise 2 have no relationship. Stating something about one does not tell you anything about the other. You could logically believe any combination of these premises So by stating 1, I'm not implying 2. In fact I'm agreeing with 1 and refuting 2. Whereas you seem to be implying that if I believe 1 I have to believe 2. This is not the case.

anm89 5y ago

You're responding to something I didn't say here. I didn't claim that every company would have the exact same outcome as Musk or that he has no advantage. Certainly Musk has an advantage here but other companies could have done the same and probably still succeeded. The odds and outcome would not have been exactly the same, which is true of literally everything in life for different people.

deckard1 5y ago
> You're responding to something I didn't say here. ... > other companies could have done the same and probably still succeeded. Come the fuck on. I'm literally replying to this idea that any other company could do the same. Your exact words: > any large company could have pulled it off not just Musk
- anm89 5y ago
  Premise 1: Musk has an advantage in the markets Premise 2: No company that Musk is not involved with could gain a competitive advantage via the signal they send with a bitcoin purchase. Premise 1 and premise 2 have no relationship. Stating something about one does not tell you anything about the other. You could logically believe any combination of these premises So by stating 1, I'm not implying 2. In fact I'm agreeing with 1 and refuting 2. Whereas you seem to be implying that if I believe 1 I have to believe 2. This is not the case.