Bitcoin is amplified in value by use-cases, but it embodies an underlying amount of energy that gives it a form of exchange value only duplicated by commodities. Corn, gold, and gas have human labor and energy requirements that cannot be falsified and that are consistent around the world. #Bitcoin takes the same amount of energy to produce anywhere.

Established market “authorities” will always seek a legal structure that provides them a competitive advantage and closes the door behind them. #bitcoin evens the playing field

In Plato’s cave, men were chained and spent their lives interpreting the shadows on the wall… mere representations of the moving figures behind them. Unable to turn and face the truth, they lived by myth and prejudice. Only when their shackles loosened and they were free to turn about and examine the world hidden behind them were they liberated from their cognitive bondage. Bitcoin is loosening chains and liberating people from an imposter existence of debt servitude, the exploitative use of capital, and oppressive governments.

Bitcoin transactions cannot be banned. A transaction is simply the exchange of some information about a coin’s whereabouts, which can be communicated as a long number, as twelve words, as a string of emojis, as a drawing, as a group of notes, etc. To ban Bitcoin is to ban communication: to ban writing, to ban speaking, to ban drawing.

“Spreading democracy” is a euphemism for enacting foreign governments that are complicit with US foreign policy interests. When every country in the world considers you to be the greatest risk to world peace, you probably are.

“the West faces the dreadful prospect that it could become the standard-bearer of a new regime type: a socially totalizing, surveilling, information-monopolizing, biopolitical, and martial regime disguised in the feel-good casing of liberal democracy”

The Crisis of Liberal Modernity and the Totalitarian Response

The paradox of freedom galvanizes modernity’s despotic tendencies.

Charles Fourier anticipated the third and last emancipatory phase of history, in which the proletariat would transform into free men by the elimination of the commodity character of labor, by the end of wage slavery, and by bringing commercial and financial institutions under democratic control. Bitcoin is part of this emancipatory phase. Fourier on Bitcoin (1772-1837)

“…freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the power, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. The less this natural development of man is influenced by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the more efficient and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown.” Daniel Guerin Anarchism

The best education about Bitcoin doesn’t mention Bitcoin. It arms you with an understanding of a broken social system, of which a broken economic system is but a symptom.

The shift from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism over the past 70 years has disrupted our ability to care for the needs of our citizens, or to participate within the global community in a just manner. Bitcoin is a a tool for classical economists to push back on this transition, and to empower laborers to preserve their work energy and to liberate themselves from oppressive capital structures.

"..we have reached a new level of deception, one that convinces us to do whatever it takes to promote a corrupt system that widens the rich-poor gap through fear, debt, and policies that constantly expand materialist consumption and advocate dividing and conquering anyone who appears to oppose us. These deceptions will lead to our own destruction.” John Perkins

Block party tonight at my house! Oh yea…we’re all anon here

🤗I sure am thankful that these bankers are overseeing all of my dollar transactions and deciding whether they’re allowable. I am also thankful that they’re helping to debase my savings, because they tell me that inflation is good and debasement keeps me working to be a productive cog in the economy

The Jubilee Year. Thousands of years ago, people understood the dangers of debt slavery as they do today. The norm in the Middle East and Europe when a new ruler came into power, was for them to declare all debts void. This would happen every now and then during many rulers’ terms as well, as a society not laden with debt would allow for more prosperous and productive citizens. Banks have destroyed this power by taking the power of money creation away from governments. Remember, our central bank is not a government agency, but a collection of private banks who lend money into existence.

People don’t hate others because it’s in their nature. They hate them because they’re told that those others are to blame for their poverty and misery. Fix the poverty and misery, let a man produce enough so he can support a family, prevent destruction of money, and absolve the hatred.

Abraham Lincoln told us that threats to America would never come from abroad; they can only come from within. From Lincoln’s Lyceum speech: “How then shall we perform it?—At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?—Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.“

Cognitive dissonance is pervasive in even the most well meaning communities. To advocate for human rights in one sphere but not in another, is inconsistent. If you subscribe to a rights-based ethic, you must strive to do so in the economic sphere, in the realm government obligation, in the foreign policy sphere. A love of Bitcoin falls in the realm of tribalism if we do not strive to expand the ethic to all aspects of human existence. Advocacy for natural rights, constraints on war, equal access to opportunity, fulfillment of basic needs, inhibition of central austerity measures, and commitment to all life above some life, is the nature of Bitcoin.

Expertise is accumulation and implementation of the greatest body of knowledge. Declaration of expertise is a process of credentialing that comes when authority injects permissions and rents between the body of knowledge and its end-user.

Bitcoin is a peaceful wrench in the gears of your war machine