30 years ago, I wasn't playing 100-hour games because they were shorter. Final Fantasy IV (or II as we called it back then) was 30-40 hours, and we thought that was huge.
I think a lot of people looked at his last prediction that Tuesday morning, observed that 70 > 30, and assumed that meant it was a lock. And then spent the last six years blaming Silver for their own innumeracy.
The billionaires' tax he mentioned is dead anyway, so that part of the discussion is moot. It was floated a couple of days ago as a possible addition to the reconciliation bill, but it's not in the framework announced this morning.
"The uncontained manner in which the engine failed resulted in high-speed metal fragments being hurled from the engine; these fragments penetrated the hydraulic lines of all three independent hydraulic systems on board the aircraft..."
Not that "easily." Moving that much cash around requires a lot of manual effort and some skill at money laundering.
By removing that need, cryptocurrency makes ransomware scalable. And as Paul Graham and other Silicon Valley types have said a thousand times, scalability is the difference between a modest mom-and-pop operation and a rapidly growing enterprise.
Or, paraphrased: Look what you made me do.