The old centralized, command and control systems are dying. The new networked, decentralized systems are rising. A beautiful future is on the other side of this rebirth process we now struggle in.

"Rich" comes from the word Reich, which means to rule. Bitcoin makes you rich because it gives you complete rule over yourself.

Bitcoin is digital gold like the Internet is digital newspaper.

Is Bitcoin utopian? No. Utopia is rulers without rules. Bitcoin is rules without rulers.

For the past 12 hrs my node has been going back and forth from being reachable via Tor and unreachable, according to bolt.observer. Anybody else?

My Software Summary If you have the right to defend your property with violence then you have the right to defend your property with power. Bitcoin is special because hashing is permissionless like violence. The permissionless power of the people is the ultimate check against corrupt systems. Bitcoin threatens permissionless revolution of the masses against any corrupt adversary every 10 minutes. Bitcoin is peaceful power. Every additional miner threatens mutually assured preservation of the network, contrasted with each additional army threatening mutually assured destruction of society.