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A pretty correct analysis imo

> [Bitcoin] not good enough to buy your decaffeinated expresso macchiato at your local virtue-signaling coffee chain.

Plus he has some humor.

His books are also quite funny, particularly Antifragile.

Was Antifragile supposed to be funny? I thought Taleb just came off as stuck-up.

It's obvious that he writes for a specific audience

It's not really 'laugh-out-loud' funny, but he has a humorous dry wit interspersed throughout his essays.

Actually, you can indeed buy an expresso with bitcoin: