Back in the real world, plenty of people publicly associated with running major cryptocurrencies (and Craig Wright!) are walking around talking about how they invented the cryptocurrency and how it revolutionises banking, and plenty of people inventing infrastructure for promoting Bitcoin are doing deals with banks, whilst Elon is the sort of guy who goes to extreme lengths to piss off both political parties in the country that he and his businesses and his lucrative government contracts are based in, including ranting into the void about the most powerful and most sensitive man in the Western world is in the Epstein files when they had a fallout...

> So there's the unwritten rule: you never upset the banks because that's the last thing you'll ever do.

What are they going to do? Whack him mafia style and make it look like an accident? Here’s a more realistic rule: “ If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem”.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/214064-if-you-owe-the-bank-...

> So why would the richest person on earth do that? He's not crazy.

You mean the guy who is so insecure he constantly lies, even about the most inconsequential things…

https://archive.ph/20250127023632/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

The guy who is so uninformed and gullible he falls for any conspiracy theory…

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/25/lies-damned-lies-and-elo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u8_fp1TtJE

The guy who jeopardised billions by buying into a random tweet accusing a business partner without proof…

https://voz.us/en/world/250308/21932/mexican-tycoon-carlos-s...

The guy who invested all his time and energy electing someone like him, only to then (predictably) have a falling out…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Musk_feud

I mean, maybe he isn’t crazy, but that isn’t really saying much. At least crazy people have an excuse.