Something I’ve thought about a lot in the past couple of years:
Money is the one good that every single person uses. It’s one half of nearly every trade.
As long as the price of money is set by a centralized entity, a true free market is fundamentally impossible, because every transaction is influenced by price controls.
I literally just had to pull the car over to start writing: while listening nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe describe “lightbulb moments” (in the context of free markets and deflation), a lightbulb — call it a zap — struck me profoundly…
Unlike the fiat system, Bitcoin IS a free market for money. Meaning that in Bitcoin terms, “half the equation” is already resolved into a deflationary free market system. Even with governmental price controls on many products, because of how radically free Bitcoin is, it completely changes the nature of the trade.
What clicked for me was this: Bitcoin exists — it’s already here — meaning that, humans already, here and now, have the choice to operate/participate in a free market, where prices fall forever.
It’s not “when we reach hyperbitcoinization” or “when Bitcoin is legal tender” or “when adoption happens on XYZ level” (although all off those help to can grease the wheels). It’s already here, if you CHOOSE to measure in Bitcoin.
No joke, my mind was blown so fully that I had to pull over so that I could write this stuff down. Now that I did, I realized it belongs on Nostr 🫡
Back to the drive, and to the podcast. Thanks for keeping my wife and I company, nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u and Jeff 🙏🔥
Yes, yes, yes!
I too have had a Booth bomb blow my brain before (see my profile header).
If I had had the benefit of Booth back when I first stumbled into bitcoin in 2010, I’d be a billionaire today. But the best I can do is spend my time in the system I want to grow…and having made all the mistakes one can make in bitcoin to varying degrees, I’m like a wizened scholar ready to preserve and repeat the deep insights of those who have seen farther than I.
Cheers brother. I still feel new to it all, with those periodic “holy shit” moments that are so good for conviction.
I’m the “bitcoiner guy” at my fiat job, but that feels right for me… for right now. Taking opportunities to share it with no-/new-coiners, when the moments arise 🤝
The Booth bomb I got from that episode with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u was this: protocols come around a lot less frequently than applications, and thus people frequently confuse the two. If you analyze bitcoin as an application, you’ll massively undervalue it because as an app it can’t do it all. Bitcoin only achieves its full measure as the base of a stack of layered protocols.
💥🎯🎯🎯
