In 1971, the Gold price was £18 per ounce. By 1980, it was £240. By 2024, it exceeded £2,000. This is not gold getting more expensive; it is the Pound Sterling losing the battle against time. #Sterling #Gold #Bitcoin #UK
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"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the digital age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know." — Eric Hughes (1993). #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Freedom
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"Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." — Lionel Robbins (1932). #Economics #Scarcity #Robbins
"It is in the nature of every government to be a predator upon the people it is supposed to serve." — Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State (1935). #Nock #TheState #Liberty
"What we need is not a better government, but a system that makes it impossible for even the worst government to do too much harm." — Friedrich Hayek. #Hayek #Liberty #InstitutionalDesign
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"A claim to a certain amount of money is not a claim to a certain amount of goods, but only a claim to a certain proportion of the total social product." — Friedrich Hayek, The Pure Theory of Capital (1941). #Hayek #Economics #Inflation
"The most important of all the powers of government is the power to create money. This is the power to destroy the value of all property." — Murray Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1963). #Rothbard #Inflation #SoundMoney
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust." — Satoshi Nakamoto (2009). #Satoshi #Nakamoto #Bitcoin
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"If one rejects laissez-faire because of the fallibility of man, one must also reject every form of government planning." — Murray Rothbard, Power and Market (1970). #Rothbard #FreeMarkets #Liberty
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." — Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850). #Bastiat #Libertarian #TheState
"Interest is the difference in the valuation of present goods and future goods. It is not a price paid for the services of capital; it is a human valuation." — Ludwig von Mises, Human Action (1949). #Mises #Economics #CapitalTheory
"I believe that the computer is going to be the most powerful tool for individual liberty that has ever been invented." — Hal Finney. #HalFinney #Cypherpunk #Bitcoin
"Freedom is not a gift from the state; it is the natural condition of man in the absence of state coercion." — Murray Rothbard. #Rothbard #Freedom #NaturalLaw
"The social science of economics is the study of human action in a world of scarcity." — Ludwig von Mises, Human Action. #Mises #Economics #HumanAction
"The crisis is not a failure of the market, but a failure of the state’s intervention in the market." — Ludwig von Mises. #Mises #MarketFailureMyth #Bitcoin
"The paper money of the state is a tool for the liquidation of the middle class." — Murray Rothbard. #Rothbard #Inflation #MiddleClass
"The gold standard was the only system that made the determination of the purchasing power of the monetary unit independent of the ambitions of governments." — Friedrich Hayek. #Hayek #GoldStandard #Bitcoin