We live in a prison of narratives. Money, nation states, status, corporate mission statements and all the rest are fiction. It’s only by going out into the natural world that we can leave our fictional prisons behind and finally experience unmediated reality.
#Mendocino
The national debt is now over $35T.
(Apparently dry statistics alone don’t engage people’s emotions so you need to use eye catching images to drive a message home.)
#Bitcoin #Mendocino
I’m meeting someone this morning for coffee and they’re bitcoin-curious. Whenever I have these chats there’s often the Q: “What exactly is #bitcoin ?”
And the answers always sound a bit awkward:
- Internet-native money
- Digital gold
- Money perfected
How would you answer?
Living out here on the frontier you have to go into town at least once a month to trade for the essentials; rice, beans, coffee, whiskey. When you get to town you’d better have something worth trading; skins, moonshine, gold, bitcoin.
#Mendocino
First #bitcoin attracted cryptographers. Next early adopters. Soon investors showed up then publicly traded companies and sovereign nations.
Now we’re seeing U.S. senators and presidential candidates floating plans for a national bitcoin reserve.
Why all this attention? The U.S. national debt just ticked past $35T and inflation is affecting everyone.
usdebtclock.org
Bitcoin is a hard money asset like gold but with a hard cap of 21M.
#Mendocino
The currency we all use is not money and it’s ensnaring us in debt and surveillance.
So people are discovering bitcoin. It mirrors Mendocino’s ethos of autonomy, freedom.
(Farewell, Larry.)
#bitcoin #Mendocino