While being bullish about #bitcoin, we should not forget to remain #wise_and_open about everything, even about alternatives to bitcoin. In theory of course. But the moment you stop doubting yourself, is the moment you become absolutist and actually stop being wise.
Bitcoin is not cool for the sake of bitcoin. It is cool because it protects from abuse by scammers and to some extent from violent thieves, such as governments and smartass banksters.
I say it protects from violence only to some extent because although the only way to steal well protected Bitcoin is torture, the problem is you cannot eat bitcoin. It still has to be exchanged into goods that have to be produced. Therefore, if there is a king or a supreme leader that has sufficient soldiers to own all physical goods of the country by force, bitcoin is helpless.
Therefore, I say, if there exists anywhere a government that over the ages has proven to be capable to protect its citizens from the outside while also not scamming, not abusing, and not limiting individual freedom, then it is better than bitcoin. Because it not only does what bitcoin does, but also protects from an external non-bitcoin mentality aggressor. We cannot say that there are no such aggressors, because that is what greeks thought until latins turned into romans (and endless other examples in history).
If any government over the last say 500 years managed to not cause 40 or 40+ weekly work hours as the minimum to stay afloat, while preserving availability of healthy food and entertainment to anyone willing to move a finger, and also while mostly keeping its territorial integrity and not enslaving the external wold, then that is an awesome 😎 government that I would trust more than bitcoin, and would not risk diminishing its powers in any way. Not even by taking away their money printer if they ever used such. It is critical though that this must have been proven over the past 500 years, not 100 years, and not just promised for the future.
My government 😔 is nowhere near this awesome one, so I am already living on bitcoin standard, but will not stop looking for the awesome 😎 government until I have seen the entire world. And even then I will find myself another doubt 🧐 to chase.
#Thailand is my first next stop.
