On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:07:53AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > That's almost as good as the hypothetical game big (insert your > > boogeyman here) might be playing with Putin to make him think Bitcoin > > is a NSA/CIA operation to ruin the ruble. > > A person of my acquaintance who is a first wave negotiator in > international affairs (first wave meaning the deniable precursor > labor that occurs before the image-sensitive political class gets > visibly involved) recounted how, in discussions in Beijing, this > person's counterpart from the "other" side said that it was the > assumption in Beijing that Twitter was an American operation > constructed to destabilize Iran. > > This was three years ago. > > --dan
And just like Iran, it seems to be all about dead dinosaurs http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/03/putin_ukraine_and_energy_could_u_s_natural_gas_exports_alter_the_geopolitical.html It had somehow slipped my mind how 'theoildrum.com' went away, and everyone seems to have forgotten $12/MMBTU natural gas. But now we have a global power play that involves exporting every MMBTU that can be fracked and liquified to choke off Russia's economic air supply. Expect $15/mmbtu gas if we have another polar vortex and $8 corn in 2015 or 2016 if this holds. When I ran across http://oilgascoin.do.am/ (oilgascoin crypto coin) I thought it was a sad attempt at a copycatcoin, but it's looking more like the first sign of a cryptocurrency psy-ops arms race.
