Drum up a bunch of fear about A.I. Create a regulatory moat and monopoly with the blessing of the citizens. Create a public-private partnership where the state gets their surveillance and the A.I. firms get their perpetual profits. Print an obscene amount of money to offset the deflationary pressure. Total chaos. Bitcoin Standard.

This was a fantastic conversation. @Bram with an excellent interview. @Erik Cason dialed in and ripping.

Anarchism x Capitalism @Erik Cason

this is my politics

Bitcoin is like a tuning fork that rings hardcore truth wherever you strike it. An unforgiving mirror for ourselves and society. Thought Tucker Carlson was a smart guy? He shares the dumbest Bitcoin take ever and makes you question everything he’s ever said. Loved one buries their head in the sand anytime you mention Bitcoin? Maybe they’ve never critically thought about anything their entire life. Traded shitcoins and got rekt? You’re arrogant and need to stay humble and stack sats. And on and on. We’ve all experienced it. Bitcoin isn’t just a truth machine for money. It reveals the truth about us.

Being an individual responsibility maximalist is one of the most toxic things you can be today.

The elites wheeled it inside the city walls proclaiming victory. They got drunk on stablecoins, crypto this and blockchain that. It was a party for the ages. The next morning as the dust settled and the hangover intensified, they realized they were gravely mistaken. They had not won. Far from it actually. They had been taken hostage by a crypto-anarchist militia shielded in cryptography and anonymity. They had won a battle but lost the war. The war of all wars. They had not co-opted Bitcoin. Bitcoin had co-opted them. Money was separated from State. Forever. With State power cut off at the knee, government started serving the interests of the people again. It got smaller. More cooperative. Nature healed and the Bitcoiners danced.

I loved @jack mallers framing today of gold being short human ingenuity and Bitcoin being long human ingenuity. Great stuff. “Yep. If BRICS wants to send gold high enough didn't Elon say he'll go get a bunch from Mars? I don't want to be short Elon Musk to store wealth. The problem with gold is you’re short human ingenuity and engineering. It's a bet that humans won't find a way to engineer more supply of gold. Bitcoin mathematically protects us from the best version of ourselves. I view Bitcoin as a way to be long humanity in this way. Gold is a macro trade for now, but over a long enough period of time it is a short position on humanity. In other words: in order for gold to remain scarce and store the world's wealth, we have to be bad at problem solving...”

“Make it simple. The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated.” - Kid Cudi

Guns for physical protection. Bitcoin for economic protection. Jesus for eternal protection. Happy Sunday Nostr.