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Bitcoin being unstoppable and ultra portable, secured by a 12-word seed phrase, enables seamless wealth transfer across borders. This empowers individuals to move to jurisdictions that align with their values.

Centralized attempts to enforce control or taxation are incentivized to fail, as their reliance on devaluing fiat currencies and arbitrary, corrupt rule of law renders them economically unsustainable for the government and all involved, leading to citizen exodus toward freer, more desirable communities.

5. Competitive Governance and Community Innovation

Competing for citizens would push cities and communities to up their game, creating safer, freer, and more prosperous environments.

When people can easily move their wealth via Bitcoin and settle anywhere, communities must offer real value like top-notch infrastructure, low crime and transparent governance to attract and keep residents.

This sparks innovation, cuts out coercive nonsense like excessive taxes, and forces places to prioritize what citizens actually want, not what centralized powers dictate.

It’s like a free market for living spaces: only the best thrive. Think of it as cities racing to be the most livable, boosting quality of life globally.

This dynamic, reinforced by Bitcoin’s uncensorable ledger, ensures that governance evolves toward voluntary, market-driven systems that prioritize, verifiable, ethical, quality processes and outcomes.

Emergence of common law in opt-in communities and/or nomadic independent sovereign living, support individual choice and societal prosperity over coercive power.

6. Decline of Fiat and Rise of Decentralized Systems

Fiat currencies, inherently inflationary due to unlimited printing, always collapse into worthlessness, as seen in every fiat currency in history.

Governments exploit fiat’s unlimited printing to maintain control, debasing currency and imposing massive debt.

They use war, propaganda, currency revaluation, high-denomination notes, market manipulation, and oppressive laws to delay collapse.

And now, instead of inciting panic and societal collapse through hyperinflation and war, they unintentionally highlight Bitcoin’s superior value proposition as a finite, bearer asset; the ultimate flight safety and an option for a better world.

Resistance to Bitcoin, whether through bans or localized adherence to traditional systems, creates temporary oppression but ultimately fails against global market forces, as seen throughout history with an easy example being gold demonetizing weaker currencies.

Holdouts face economic irrelevance, historically, fiat currencies lose all value, this is accelerated with an option (bitcoin) to opt out of fiat currency, no government can alter (debase to oppress or make more of for endless funding), censor or plunder/steel and people become unable to trade for scarce goods, while Bitcoin adopters increase.

Number go up: #Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse | Alex Gladstein and Lex Fridman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xH1vBuDbBA

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I had no idea nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wct4lwjj was on Lex Friedman's podcast.

Thank you for sharing.

I like this litmus test Alex gave on this episode.

"Can you make money making fun of your government on television?

If you cannot, you live in a dictatorship most likely."

Classic episode.

Man, this came out before I heard about nostr, but it's interesting to listen to this episode now that this protocol exists. 🤓

That's great he was on Lex's podcast. I might try listening to it, but find Lex super boring so could be a mission.

I listened to the whole episode of this podcast for the first time yesterday.

They talk about bitcoin, but much of the conversation is about alternative, data-respecting social media.

This podcast is essentially about #nostr, but nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wct4lwjj , nor most anyone on bitcoin twiter heard of it yet. This is worth a listen or a second listen.

https://fountain.fm/episode/KO367tsPILu6yBDeiwrO

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