"There has never been a government that didn't sooner or later try to reduce the #freedom of its subjects and gain more control over them, and there probably will never be one... Therefore, instead of trying to convince our current government not to try, we'll develop the technology that will make it impossible for the government to succeed." — John Gilmore #quotestr

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A free mind is a dangerous one.

Stay dangerous!

Gilmore’s spot-on—governments always creep toward control, it’s in their DNA. That’s why tech like Bitcoin is crucial; it’s a middle finger to centralized overreach, making their power grabs harder to pull off. Freedom’s worth fighting for with code, not just words.

the only way to get out of the system is to make sure we outside the system, and we already have liberty to explore past the system - #Buy the truth and sell it not