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...