Well said. I am wary of the tendency to over spiritualize Bitcoin….and yet. As my understanding grows, the spiritual parallels that crop up are astounding. nostr:note1gw43wu6ghc92tz2xxsaxt7nzlpdgxs5h3sd8au8znxmyg0awx72smyllnl
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Yeah, I'm wary of over spiritualizing many things. Learning about how bitcoin was designed and the principle behind it give me a new lens for many topics though. Thanks for sharing.
Who would have thought that Bitcoin was the way to get closer to God.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Everyone marketing bitcoin claims it to be about freedom, but in reality, it's a fancy investment tool and nothing more. Then they sacrilegiously compare it to the divine while conveniently forgetting that God did not create us to be financiers but to care for the earth.
Paul taught Christians to work with their hands (1 Thess 4 11), because all the bankers, bureaucrats, merchants, rabbis, and other busybodies provided nothing useful to society. This tendency to do actual work saved many Romans as the Roman empire decayed and actually helped to reverse the trend of Christian persecution by Constantine's time.
And what do the people who peddle in bitcoin all day provide? You claim to be freeing people from governments but instead push their minds toward money for the sake of money, and a paltry amount at that: bitcoin's deflation ensures that those who already bought into the system years ago will always hold disproportionate control over those just now starting.
And you continue to "HODL" and encourage others to do the same, never actually producing anything, never actually building a parallel economy, only talking about how "valuable" it is, even to the point of heretically comparing its value with the Almighty God.
You think you have money, but in reality, money has you.
I take your point, but I think you’re too simplistic.
I truly believe Bitcoin has the potential to cleanse the economy—and much of culture along with it. Yes, I was to personally benefit economically from it, but that’s not the primary reason I support it.
If I had a button that would guarantee the success of Bitcoin, but at the cost of me receiving any direct economic benefit, I would push it—no hesitation.