I don’t mean to say we haven’t been doing this, but that giving up after the incredible progress we’ve had because a couple of things happened makes no sense. It’s a rally cry for getting people who have been sitting on the sidelines to get off their ass.

That’s a LOT of people who care about #Bitcoin but have done essentially nothing more than post on Twitter about how much they like it while expecting everyone else to do the work. It’s a call to get those people to step up and do something and drop their defeatist attitude. We have an enormous subset of tools and many aren’t utilizing them or learning what they need to learn because it’s been a *really* easy road so far.

There is and will always be a tendency to centralize, it’s literally the axiomatic nature of building things. This is just something that needs to be recognized and accepted, that this is the case and that when the next wave of centralization comes, our job is to find the elements that need to be created in a decentralized version in order to get across the next wave.

I can’t think of any time in history or any environment in which we’ve been able to respond to and solve those centralization problems as deeply and as quickly as we are right now.

Yet I still see people acting like all hope is lost. All I can think is how absurd (and also useless) that viewpoint is. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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i hate it when they got in their hopeless mind this thought: "the politicians are puppets and there will never change something, we have lost and we can do nothing"

i could through up...

i am more the guy looking for options, i know the situation is difficult or complex, BUT minds can be change one by one!

Even more so, OUR difficulty is unbelievably neutered compared to the challenges of our forefathers. If we can’t win or we give up where we are now, then we simply never deserved to win. And we will keep failing and things will keep getting worse until a generation steps up that finally is willing to believe that they can win, and that actually fucking deserves to see that victory one day.

I hope it’s us, maybe it isn’t. But I cannot see any possible reason or logic to believe we aren’t. Because believing you can’t win is literally the mindset of the loser. There is ZERO chance of winning if we believe we can’t win. It is a prerequisite.

So I say fuck that. I actually want to win, I want to see the future I want, and I’m gonna try and push that direction because what the fuck else am I going to do? Not to mention that we have the best possible chance at getting to the future we want, and here we are talking about on a decentralized social media protocol and zapping each other with decentralized, global non-state money, encrypted and managed by public and private key pairs where everyone can be sovereign and NOW we lose hope!? Not me, I’m fucking stoked and think we are well on the way.

Sure there are some minor bumps in the road but I say step on the gas and see how much air we can get. Fuck em.