The modern state collects more in taxes than most regimes in history ever have. It can demand the mass conscription of military-aged males into its armed forces, a power most kings could not have dreamed of. Technology allows the modern state to monitor and censor the speech of its subjects to a degree unimaginable to the most tyrannical dictators of the past. Yet so long as this is done while freeing the individual from traditional social obligations, not only do its citizens not feel oppressed, they see themselves as liberated.

Bitcoin is a means to an end. Don't let it be an idol in your life.

I've become so impatient with orange pilling people now that I usually frame it like this, verbatim.

I'm not starting a vlog.

Bitcoin has no ceiling whether you like it or not.

Logging back on to LinkedIn after years away

Goo Goo Dolls at Red Rocks in '96 was a vibe, man.

Me when the IRS starts asking about my zaps.

If we have been told our entire lives that we live in an age of unprecedented liberty protected by constitutional limits on government and individual rights, but find a govt that is ever-expanding, extending its tentacles into areas previously never thought imaginable, then we have to be willing to consider that we were sold a falsehood. It's at least worth studying political theory and stress testing your long held beliefs. What does it mean if the Constitution does not meaningfully restrain government power?

We stand on the shoulders of giants, Hal Finney being one of the biggest. Thought this song would be perfect to a video / slide show of his words from Bitcoin and Me. Credit to the Bitcoin story YouTube channel for the video / photos.

We made the mistake of asking viewers to share a comment or question by voice DM on our pod The Stack Show.

Wife and I watched War of the Worlds 2 to see how bad it really was. The whole movie is basically Ice Cube yelling at people to "GET OUTTA DERE!!"

Wife: you're like a walking Wikipedia hehe Me: Honey, Wikipedia has been compromised for years. Everything I've learned, I've learned from the fringe corners of the internet, which is the last real bastion for freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. My wife:

The culture war is a proxy war for the spiritual war.

I'm a GDP disrespectoor. Human beings are not interchangeable economic units.

My accountant learning my portfolio consists of 100% magic internet money

Buy bitcoin. Movie: Sovereign

Ah the '90s