GPS and Internet were also government "inventions", but I bet he's still using them
Mr Anderson
If Carlson understood Bitcoin as money rather than as an investment, his concerns about CIA origins would evaporate. The origin of the dollar matters because dollars are controlled by their issuer, the Federal Reserve can print more at will. The origin of Bitcoin is irrelevant because Bitcoin cannot be controlled by its creator or anyone else. The protocol is the money, and the protocol is fixed.
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Eggzakly!!
It’s impossible for someone, who sees all power as political, to understand a non-political force
Come on now! 🔥👏🏻✅
Bitcoin is incredibly political
It becomes more politicized everyday, but the protocol is not political
The protocol is exactly what everyone politicizes over
It is the expression of everyones collective politics
Gold is actually the apolitical money it just is
Not the market cap?
Not the market cap?
The market cap is set by how many people decided to adopt it as money + speculation of degens in the bull cycles.
I don't anything political about the network. It just is, has rules and keeps on ticking like a clock. Actually Bitcoin cares about politics even less than gold
Tell that to the knotzi's and the coremunist, how about big vs small blockers.
The code you run on your node is your political vote
They're just implementations of Bitcoin, not Bitcoin itself. It's like saying gold is political because some companies are lobbying or arguing with each other
The collective of actively run bitcoin nodes and their corresponding implementations is what we call bitcoin. If one political faction in bitcoin decides to hard fork and gains majority share they are using politics to direct the network protocol. Gold lobbies don't change what is fundamentally a physical element nor its properties.
Do you think bitcoin can never change? If it does change how will that have happened? It will be the politics of node runners and there representatives the devs that create the implementations. Devs are the new politicians plebs vote with nodes
Bitcoin is human consensus and human consensus drifts over time. Gold is physics and the laws of nature have stayed the same for as far as i know
You think the rules of bitcoin are immutable? Are you not aware of the history of changes to the bitcoin code?
The drift is whatever new implementation or fork comes over the next century
Once whales have majority coins and a new fork comes and all the whales agree that this new fork is the real bitcoin the capital will control what implemention holds value. And thats all people care about
Bitcoin is just mathematics. And the laws of mathematics have also stayed the same for a long time, as far as I know.
I don't think that even the infitine amount of politics can make us mine more than 21m bitcoin.
You're now describing proof of stake, in bitcoin you need to provide most amount of work, not most amount of coins.
Who decides what math is bitcoin?
Do you understand what a fork it? Do you know how the economics of a fork play out?
Its obvious you haven't studied enough and your just repeating memes you heard on youtube
Updating and improving the code is very different than changing the rules.
Bitcoin is like chess in that regard. Anybody can create their own versions, some may like the board to be hexagonal, some may think that there needs to be twice amount of pawns in play.
This is ok, and imo everybody can play how they want, but they still cannot change the rules of the game of chess anymore.
Thats why i said the drift of "human concensus" not single person consesus
What happens when all the rich guys say their play chess with a hexegon? And sell all their square boards for hexegon boards
