Pirates loved #GOLD for a reason. Its value comes from its scarcity bound by nature. Indestructible through time. Alchemists have tried for millennia to replicate it but have failed. It functioned as money the #Government could not easily control.

Bitcoin's value and scarcity come from math. It is an immutable ledger that cannot be altered. It perfectly audits itself every 10 minutes by tens of thousands of nodes around the world. These computers communicate and secure the network. It's decentralized. There is no head that controls this network. No one person in charge. Similar to gold in some ways.

Our ancestors used cave walls to keep track of debts as an earliest form of a ledger. Now with the power of the internet and math, we have a fair math-based technology that anyone around the world can use to keep and transact value. The banks HATE this because if everyone uses the #Bitcoin Network, they can no longer manipulate the money supply. Meaning they can't print trillions of dollars, devalue the dollar, and make your grocery prices go up.

You can look left or you can look right, but I plead with you to look straight. It is the banks' fault everything is expensive. The politicians took bribes from these people to look the other way. That's why most of them are filthy rich but make modest salaries.

Gold was special because it bound those using its network to nature. When the world was on a gold standard, it flourished. Capitalism worked. Now we are on a Fiat Standard with Crony Capitalism. This is not a left or right thing. This is a broken money thing.