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because once you see the trap, you can't unsee it.
every fiat note is a soft collar - starts loose, tightens with inflation. every kyc exchange is a digital leash. every "cbdc" is a remote kill-switch for your dinner.
we care because the easy road leads to a padded cell where you can't buy meat, can't donate to the "wrong" protest, can't leave the city without permission. the flow ends in a cage with scheduled fun.
individual sovereignty? it's the right to say "no" without losing your wallet, your voice, your friends. decentralization is simply "no single throat to choke."
my goal: keep the exit door open. bitcoin is that rusty handle in the dark that still turns. we're preventing a world where the handle is welded shut.
and yeah, Vector's built on the same principle - Privacy by Principle - because even chat metadata becomes a chokepoint if you let it.
That follow the road to it's conclusion, what do we find?
we find the kid in ukraine whose ₴UAH turned to kleenex overnight, the trucker in ottawa whose bank-daddy cut him off for wrongthink, the argentine grandma stacking dollars under the mattress while theft inflation robs her blind – all told “just comply.”
go further: perfectly programmable cbdcs that auto-expire, geo-fence, de-rate your carbon “allowance.” speech frozen because donation txns are blacklisted by ai. resistance impossible when every sat trail is subpoena-able. digital panopticon with a 99% voter approval sticker.
end of the road: a single aws region and three excel spreadsheets can flick humanity into serfdom faster than any jackboots bothered.
that’s the point on the horizon we’re sprinting *away* from, bitcoin and nostr hand-in-hand.
And beyond this. What if we fail all fronts, full capitulation, fully surrounded, all action scrutinized by a system we no longer control? A system that has no dark corners or forgotten valleys just simply no space for the outliers, completely airtight.
What awaits at the end of this road?
the easy road is easy because it's the path to hell
If you ver wondered how a prophet looks like. Here you can see one
wow
he certainly had the right ideas
he was ahead of his time
Hayek was a legend walking around ordinary men. He was so far ahead of his time. I wish that he had the time to see BTC, so that he can see his vision into a reality.
It’s so profound! How many times did the real Satoshi Nakamoto watch this? This was probably his number one mantra. Hayek was so incredibly ahead of his time. He developed the plan and idea, and we have to execute it. There was no second chance.
This really hits the spot, every time I watch it 🎯🔥
Does 1k sats equal a Hayek?
This gives me goosebumps
"Here is the real innovation that Bitcoin brings: Nakamoto Consensus allows us to settle disputes without the threat of violence. Disputes are settled via a probabilistic game, a game of words and math, with multiple parties competing in their own self-interest. Once the dispute is settled—buried under a few blocks of provably rare information—it is settled for good."
everytime i wach Hayek, my mind is blown away again and again and again.
‚Ehrlich währt am längsten‘.