GM.
Happy Maundy Thursday.
Was just going over the details of Nero as the Beast of Revelation, so may as well recap for those who aren't aware (especially Bitcoiners who will be meeting with family for Easter):
Neron Caesar is 616 when transliterated to Hebrew. 616 is the number found in the earliest copies of Revelation, Papyrus 116 and the Codex Ephraemi.
Nero Caesar is 666 when transliterated to Latin.
Nero was the one whose mark was on the coinage at the time. He is also the one who debased the metallic content of the coins, making his mark the only thing that gave them a standardized value.
Revelation tells us that the number of the Beast is the number of a man. No other man has been found in the nearly 2000 years since its writing who corresponds to both of these numbers from the early and later versions of the manuscript.
Now, as for the matter of weights and measures, these are littered through the Bible, but let's throw one in to start that's relevant to the current holiday of Passover:
Leviticus 19:35-36
‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
And perhaps one that we can all find resonance in:
Micah 6:10-14
“Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures of wickedness
And a short measure that is cursed?
“Can I justify wicked scales
And a bag of deceptive weights?
“For the rich men of the city are full of violence,
Her residents speak lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
“So also I will make you sick, striking you down,
Desolating you because of your sins.
“You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,
And your vileness will be in your midst.
You will try to remove for safekeeping,
But you will not preserve anything,
And what you do preserve I will give to the sword.
And as we move on to doctrines of life after death, I might also just add my take here: regardless of what life after death is like to the one who has died, which I won't opine on, the life you give your family, and your community, after your death, is contingent upon their ability to have a functional economy, and a functional system of justice, and adequate resources with which to subsist within those systems. What makes unsound money so insidious is that it extracts the value from these things, so that the living rot right alongside the dead. Sound money in the form of Bitcoin can restore the engine that is a just economy, and allow us to prosper both in this life, and the next: that of our children.
So yea, GM, and hope y'all have a blessed #HolyWeek. I'm sure you'll hear from me anyway, but in case you're not scrolling, happy #Easter too.
So, guys, I'm so glad I brought up Bitcoin at my wife's family dinner. It turns out, her uncle told me that Bitcoin transactions are actually more traceable than dollar transactions. The whole blockchain is actually transparent!
Listening to normies talk about macro was painful. They vaguely know that someone creates money and that debt is involved, but private formation of capital? Whoosh. And let's not even talk about money market funding on capital market lending, and the liquidity conditions that arise out of bubbles and busts...
