Distain for the homeless and the destitute is the same distain that the billionaire class have for you. To blame others’ misfortunes on their shortcomings is to not understand that the system is designed to shift wealth from the middle and lower classes into the pockets of the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors. Blame the poor for their troubles, and you are complicit with the financial system that will eventually impoverish you in the same way.

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.

Dogmatic subscription to any belief, no matter how well-intentioned, will inevitably lead to abuse. The only philosophy to which I am stubbornly committed is that of having an open mind.

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

“Freedom is the absolute right of every human being to seek no other sanction for his actions but his own conscience, to determine these actions solely by his own will, and consequently to owe his first responsibility to himself alone.” Daniel Guerin Anarchism. P. 31 On #bitcoin

Technology breeds order, efficiency, and improvement. Not growth. The drive for growth is a remnant of inflationary currency, and of the myths pushed by men who have learned how to use growth to take what you have already produced.

As a pie that is divisible to 8 decimal places…where a Satoshi currently equals $0.000273, Bitcoin can pretty much absorb as much value as it wants and still be useful as a daily currency to buy a pen

Bitcoin really isn’t an investment. It doesn’t provide returns. It stores your work energy, and allows you to step aside from the fiat system of working ever harder for a dollar that is work ever less

When I’m old, sit me in front of the TV and turn on Andy Griffith.

If you own a business and decide to implement lightning, you just clawed back 3% of the fees from Visa. You prevented clients from changing their minds and cancelling their payments. You prevented your bank from putting a hold on funds or declining to transfer them for any of a thousand reasons. You prevented government agencies from having a hate on your business or your client, and using the transaction against you.

I think it’s better to know nothing than to know the wrong things. There is no sin in blind ignorance. There is great sin in willful complicity with unreason

Don’t just read. Read the right books.

“Why negate a constitution, as the Nazis did, if it is possible simultaneously to exploit porosity and legitimate power by means of judicial interpretations that declare huge campaign contributions to be protected speech under the First Amendment, or that treat heavily financed and organized lobbying by large corporations as a simple application of the people’s right to petition their government?” Sheldon Wolin

Sheldon Wolin is blowing my mind. I try not to recommend books unless someone asks for my recommendation (I don’t do a good job at it). But “Democracy Incorporated” is on another level.

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.

On the bright side, your struggle does serve someone. The harder you work, the more you leverage your time and funds, and the more you donate to the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors. Interest…fees paid to others to take over mundane tasks, fees paid to maintenance, different types of insurance…. All life-fees that sneak into one’s life when one can no longer manage their own stresses. The bigger one’s life, the greater the donation to the FIRE sector. This is why the allure of growth is sold to us