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Matt Welch: I've gone from mostly dismissing it to suddenly being like, how do we explain this? Because having a high ranking intelligence officer with the consequences of misinformation that exist. This is Nabob Lazar who has got, you know, they can't even vet his background. They don't know if he's actually who he says he is. It took me more time to buy into Bitcoin. He was always trying to find the deepest questions in physics and philosophy as an undergrad. That's why there's an PhD in physics. And so my intellectual strategy has been to try to look at things that are someone in the corners, someone in the tails of the distribution. His professional career

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