Drinking a beer, reading an excellent book, and watching my bees collect pollen.

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.

FOX, MSNBC, CBS, CNN are the entertainment industry. The corporations that own them profit from your fear, and depend on redirecting your attention from issues that serve the establishment, to issues that have a negligible impact on their pocketbooks

“The only places in the world that don’t have central banks are North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. In 2000, this list suspiciously included Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.”

The Bible said seven years of feast, seven years of famine. Then the overlords figured that didn’t apply to them, so long as they incorporated everything, wrote their own laws, and controlled the currency.

The only way to successfully evaluate ideas about social structure is to evaluate them on their individual merits. The temptation is to allow our ruling class to bundle them together and package them with a term that they then convince us is bad. In this way, many of the important liberating philosophies of past social movements are stolen from us using our own cognitive bias and tendency to ad hominem reasoning and the appeal to the masses fallacy.

If we allow ourselves to understand the motivations of corporations, then we will no longer be surprised when they exploit us and abuse the power they have secured for themselves.

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own. — Herbert Marcuse

“The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.” Attributed to either James Madison or to John Adam’s, depending on the source. Likely 1787

Relying on centralized exchanges to onboard people into Bitcoin…relying on YouTube to allow a free flow of Bitcoin Information to the people… are also not proving to be sustainable ways to onboard the people. They would be convenient. Our protocols are peer to peer by design. This should only confirm our commitment to decentralization and to understand the insidious nature of corporations and their rule over the word.

It’s not the US government that censors people. It’s corporations. Read “The Myth of Capitalism”

To have a decentralized protocol and then to ask a corporation to centralize its onboarding seems to be going backwards. This is an inconvenience, but inconvenience doesn’t dissuade the sort of people that are drawn to protocols over platforms.

My fiat job is a pretty important one. But it serves one child at a time. My miners are roaring along in service of billions, 24-hours a day. I like that.

To promote Bitcoin is really to promote mathematics. A Bitcoin influencer is really just an interpreter for people unfamiliar with the math. Love the math, not the influencer.

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Imagine the billions or trillions that the banking system extracts from the world in service fees, transfers, interests…all unearned economic rents. Now scatter them back upon the population… preservation of human labor for those that really produced it. This is the power of Bitcoin to improve the welfare of the bankers’ debt slaves.