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The biggest cause of unnecessary suffering in this era is due to bad money. Despite how much more productive humanity has become compared to 50 years ago, our progress has not reflected in this dysfunctional economy. A good economy increases both the quality and quantity of time of each individual during their life. The most important benefits from technological advancement have been mostly negated by the power to print (legal counterfeiting). Humanity's biggest enemies are literally thieves of time.

Not to mention printing and plundering from their own citizens is the only way they can fund their warfare.

That's why Bitcoin is the baseline to begin undoing all unnecessary suffering.

I think a more accurate version of "Bitcoin fixes this" is "Nothing can truly be fixed until the money is fixed".

#btc #bitcoin

StackinBeets 11mo ago 💬 15

*Main/side quests*

I had a short conversation here with a guy that introduced himself on Nostr and tried it out for a few days. He already left.

He wasn't stupid but obviously very ignorant on the topic of money.

We had a conversation and the topic became "helping people". I kept trying to make my point that I'm trying to help out EVERY single individual by advocating for hard money, but I think his negative worldview wouldn't even let him entertain the possibility that this is something that would save the world.

Nor did he seem to believe my intentions.

So he kept saying the same, about wanting to give "free" meals to those in need, and helping out his community.

So he's not a bad dude per se, his focus is just too narrow. This made me think of a concept in gaming: The main quest and sidequests.

Sidequests usually are insignificant and even though it's admirable that you want to help people in your community, you're helping just that person, or maybe a few, survive for one day longer. Not attempting to look for more productive ways to increase your aid to others is known as short time preference behaviour.

I'm afraid many people forever stay stuck in an endless cycle of sidequests, without ever attempting the main quest.

The main quest is usually about saving the entire world, which includes EVERY living creature. This is why bitcoin is the main quest, which I tried to explain to him.

Sidenote: trying to orange pill one person is trying to help only one individual indeed, but it may spread to others and thus is linked to the main quest 😁

If anyone feels like reading the conversation I had with him, it's here:

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#btc #bitcoin #nostr

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Thutski 11mo ago

most people get stuck grinding sidequests. bitcoin’s the only path that levels up everyone at once.

StackinBeets 11mo ago

Well said! How didn't I think of that one 😄

Eiswindyeti 11mo ago

Sad that he left. The only way to get (almost) free meals is through the free market.

Duncan Cary Palmer 11mo ago

Hey, Fren...

GM, and Thank You for sharing this.

🙏🏻😁😆💥🚀👍

You struck a chord, reminding me that I need to focus more clearly on my Main Quest...

Just a bit of feedback on your thesis; I do believe that there is a hierarchy of importance in things I need to promote, convey, and teach; and for example, fostering the adoption of bitcoin, nostr, cashu, and thus a market truly free of state intervention, are very high on my list of efforts that strongly support my primary quest...

For the record, my Primary Quest is:

Communicating my possibly unique (and consequently EXTREMELY difficult to convey) insights into how to better advance the Kingdom of God and the universal recognition of Jesus as the Blessed and ONLY Sovereign, the ONLY human being with a *legitimate* claim to be King...

https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf

I really need help to stay on point with this! I need to study and learn how to be more effective at communicating what is so clear and obvious to me.🤔🧐😮

Thanks again for stirring up my thinking about this today...🙏🏻💖💥

StackinBeets 11mo ago

If there's a group of people willing to listen to things which are difficult to explain, it's definitely bitcoiners/nostriches so I'm glad you've at least found this place already!

DominaKatyLynx 11mo ago

Well put. This app has so many amazing things , where do I begin. Its been one week. Already getting a new phone and telling all etc

Cormac 11mo ago

I 100% agree with you and what you are trying to get across. But god damn if he doesn’t present a very realistic and good case of how bad things could go if this transitional process isn’t handled correctly. There WILL be a fight for the fate of our future, and it does now seem scarier to me that its no longer “us vs them” , because its getting harder and harder to see who embraces Bitcoin for what it could be, and who are the bad actors that are good at creating a self-serving, self-beneficial veil as they always have. With more and more people coming into the BTC community, its gonna be harder and harder to keep the wheel steering in the right direction. Because more “right directions” are getting introduced, whether that be obvious or cloaked paths is also getting harder and harder to see….

StackinBeets 11mo ago

Absolutely!

I think anti-bitcoin government would have still been preferable at this stage of adoption.. Meaning they're not trying to falsely embrace it, remain ignorant, and can't tax it.

Cormac 11mo ago

Yea thats whats so scary about the rise in popularity again of XRP, and projects like that, that are so “BTC adjacent”. Its like we are still SO EARLY that theres still time for “The Machine” to use the weight and power it still has to catch up and create its own systems with the amount of misinformation and lack of knowledge and monetary education still out there now.

Its like that shift in mindset with the ETFs and Institutions haha. At first everybody was like “Oh shit! The bigs boys are on board, strap in!🚀”, and now it feels more like “oh shit…..the big boys are on board 🫣🧐 Strap in…”

Haha

StackinBeets 11mo ago

Followed btw, always good to interact with critical thinkers (I used to think it was a given when you're a Bitcoiner but it's not)

Cormac 11mo ago

Same 🤙

And yea I would think the same thing about critical thinking and the common Bitcoiner. Like if you are a Bitcoiner than you would think it means we already have a set of principles that we agree on at our core, so it changes how you think about them. I think I saw nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs have a funny post about that recently. And you knew that it takes a critical thinker to get yourself to even ask, “what IS money?” But the lack of critical thinking part of the newer wave of bitcoiners is just the speed of adoption ramping up i think. And its causing some people to find Bitcoin BEFORE they are ready for it. It used to be that you had to find bitcoin for yourself and look deeper and study it for any real impact to take place. But nowadays, its more in the face of the normie. And whatever mindset you are in when you look/review something HEAVILY influences what you actually “see” and take from it, unfortunately

🤷‍♂️😔

StackinBeets 11mo ago

Yeah it's amazing how the most vital (albeit abstract) concept to civilised life in this era is also the least understood. That is obviously not a coincidence. How's that quote go.. "Your rulers won't teach you how to overthrow them" or something.

Cormac 11mo ago

I guess this is kinda what i’m talking about. Like now i’m concerned that we will be forcefully pushed towards hyperbitcoinization before the average person (or anywhere close to a sizable amount at least) is ready. Instead of the slow natural progression that could still, albeit less and less likely 😅😓, happen over a natural timeline 🤷‍♂️

https://m.primal.net/OBVe.mov

StackinBeets 11mo ago

And ofcourse this will also result in "Custodia Dystopia".

Roshanjihan 10mo ago

Great perspective, and great thread regarding the conversation. One thing I read a few years ago that really stuck with me, is that money and this banking is really just a tangible form of trust. When you have nation states diluting that trust through printing and using the currency for their own objectives, eventually it depreciates. The fundamental value of any money is built on trust. Bitcoin has trust innately built-in, but the media has worked hard to delegitimize it. I assume, like the Internet, it will be the crazy few of us who continue to have faith in it until something prompts mainstream adaption.