its worth noting, for personal decision making, that the Beast system in Revelation is a fiat money system based on biometric enforcement, and State violence.
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my normies Christian friends tell me the beast is why they don't like bitcoin
always fun to try to flip that on them
This is why we need Christians. If they don't join us, the likelihood of their fears actually occurring increases by a lot. The mark of the beast could be a lot of things, including a CBDC or a corporatized Bitcoin where they've changed consensus rules. It could even be a perfect Bitcoin with wallets that report on you. There's a lot of ways to get there. But Pandora's box (it was actually a jar) is opened and the new things can't be put back in - either morally aware people participate, or the future will be defined by immoral/unaware people, and then we get the mark in that exoteric interpretation.
'Good' enters the world first ; 'evil' follows by way of corrupting and making inferior copies and passing the counterfeit off as superior.
Its the same pattern we can see with "fiat disease" - where the debasement of the store of value causes merchants to compensate for the theft by using inferior quality inputs, and we get a progressively shittier and shittier world. Poison ingredients in food --> fiat disease. Flimsy houses that are overproduced because of credit expansion --> fiat disease. All of the things affected by the disease started as "good" and later became corrupted, inferior versions because of the initial sin that started the disease - the sin of theft. "Thou shalt not steal."
We genuinely need Christians here. I really mean that. Also Muslims and Buddhists and all the rest, and if that's your crowd, that's your mission. I personally believe that without Christians joining us, Bitcoin will turn into a counterfeit, corrupt thing, basically the mark.
What the heck am I responding to anyways? I've been hashing this thought out so long I forgot...
This is why Bitcoin is our weapon **_against_** the mark of the beast.
Anyone can make a wallet, no permission, no one knows, not even Bitcoin. IF the mark is indeed this exoteric thing, and I personally don't think it means this, but I can be wrong, and if I am, then Bitcoin was literally made for Christians. Pick up your weapons. Not "real" weapons - our battle is against wickedness in high places, and our weapons are invisible. You didn't think we'd get to this hour and not be provided the weapons we need, did you? We're meant to accept this challenge, and conquer.
Like I said, this isn't how I interpret it. But that old magical principle, "as within, so without," could make the matter moot.
Had someone tell me recently that Bitcoin was the mark of the beast 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
The deceived don’t know they’re deceived, and fiat is a great deception.