If you care about human liberty the worst possible thing you can do is join or materially support the US military.
Even campaigning for an anti-freedom politician or cause does less damage.
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Disagree. Missiles will be acquired regardless. I will turn part of that into bitcoin. I figured out the best way to accelerate adoption via a superior understanding of non-equilibrium monetary economics, and there was no interest. You might even go as far as to say wealthier bitcoiners tacitly concluded better to have me build missiles, and hodl a few more coins. Their prerogative.
You can either wait around for other people to arrive, or you can have EXPORTS. The asymmetrical trade advantage bitcoiners have could play a large role in mid-stage adoption. I will "export."
The fiat world is unimaginably stupid... Ok, that's my hurdle rate. I'll just have to outsmart it to wrangle stuff now because I can't keep waiting around, and three weeks ago I discovered a way to do so.
Ceding the moral high ground by aiding the state's murder campaigns just so you can acquire bitcoin is losing the plot. Better to shitcoin for more sats if you're breaching ethics.
How is that different from people who are against guns for individuals because criminals use guns? I make strong/er materials, sir, even more basic of a building block than the firearm, a tool sold by manufacturers to law enforcement and militaries, not just individuals.
Shitcoins actively are damaging and suppress adoption through slander, libel, and confusion (the ten commandments also put theft on the same level as murder). There is an argument to be made that nothing exists in this world is as unethical as shitcoinery, all higher order effects considered. Bitcoin is the tip of the spear for all that is good, so all that blunts it is the greatest trespass to life there can be.
Doing nothing to advance the state of the world would be a sort of suicide for me, and I am not so athletic that my pursuits as a climber or mountain biker would be of any use, and I will not commit suicide in protest. Nor am I wealthy enough to pursue a mediocre life of hedonism as many bitcoiners capitulate into (wealth at the consumption scale, but not yet on the shaping the capabilities of civilization scale).
I have thought this in the past, but we could probably agree that helping effectuate the recent bitcoin restrictions in Argentina would be worse, no? Maybe some other stuff too
States will do what they do. Attacks on bitcoin via political means have always been expected.
But helping the US military carry out the destruction of human life across the planet is acting as the hired muscle for the political and oligarchic class. These people have no power without the backing of violence, otherwise their edicts would just be suggestions.
Why ?
Can you give more details ?