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BitcoinMendocino
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#Bitcoin is the alternative financial system for local communities at a time of inflation and spiraling national debt. #Mendocino California.
The dollar: - Infinite supply - Controlled by banks - Requires government trust - Days for transaction settlement - Centralized - Inflationary #Bitcoin  - Limited supply - Self-custody - Trustless - Instant settlement - Decentralized - Deflationary image
#Mendocino was/is a cash-centric economy. Many businesses used to/do only accept cash. But technological pressure is nudging Mendocino towards payment platforms with central authorities. #Bitcoin  will/does offer options for peer-to-peer, private transactions with no middlemen. image
#Bitcoin ‘s lack of physicality, the fact you can’t hold it in your hand, is hard for some people to accept…until perhaps they look more closely at fiat currency and realize its most physical form is plastic and paper backed by $34.7T of debt. image
What’s backing #bitcoin ? (Rhetorical question/answer) What’s backing gold? Gold takes work to produce and is scarce. Bitcoin also takes work to produce and is scarcer than gold. Neither are ‘backed’ by anything except perhaps the laws of physics. image
#Bitcoin is a ledger. A very big ledger. A comprehensive ledger. Anyone can hold a copy of this ledger but no one can manipulate its entries. You can keep a copy of this ledger too but you don’t have to to use #BTC . It’s this ledger that keeps your bitcoin, your money, safe. image
Individuals, central banks, families, nation states and small coastal towns can all avoid ongoing fiat inflation with #bitcoin , the alternative financial system. #Mendocino image
Summer’s sort of here and the Bitcoin Mendocino (California) Campsite is open. tinyurl.com/5dd9t7hb
You can do an elevator pitch to someone for a movie: “Romeo and Juliet on a ship.” - Titanic. Or a business startup: “A taxi service where drivers use their own private cars.” - Uber. But you can’t do an elevator pitch for #bitcoin. #BTC takes hours to explain. image
#Bitcoin  is the alternative financial system - hard money we can use as a local currency and a way to save in the face of ongoing inflation. #Mendocino image
#Bitcoin self-custody will: - be easy to use - be secure - be recoverable - include inheritance planning - be ubiquitous - not require a money transmitter license image
#bitcoin SEC - it’s a commodity IRS - it’s a security DOJ - it’s money image