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1. A 50 year marriage

1. 50 bitcoin

Bitcoin has now been working and trading for 15 full calendar years. It's time to see how it's doing and run some numbers.

On Jan 1, 2010, there were 1,624,000 bitcoin in circulation trading at around $0.001 each. The total market capitalization of bitcoin was ~$1,624.

On Dec 31, 2024, there were 19.803 million bitcoin trading at around $93,389 each, for a total market capitalization of $1.85 trillion.

In total over the 15 years, the size of bitcoin cash balances has increased by 110,400,000,000,000%, or around 110 billion percent.

If, during the next 15 years, bitcoin grows at only 1 ten millionth of its growth rate over the last 15 years, it grows to a total market cap of around $210 trillion, making it larger than all the world's fiat currencies and government bonds combined.

In such a world, a government may be able to keep its shitcoin alive if it doesn't inflate its supply too much (a big if, and an even bigger may). Whether they do or do not is largely inconsequential, because either way, inflation won't be able to touch the majority of the world's wealth.

Any bitcoin bearish thesis needs to present a coherent explanation for why bitcoin's next 15 years are going to have a growth rate that is significantly lower than a ten millionth of the rate of the past 15 years. Don't expect to hear one from people who get paid from the inflation bitcoin will kill.

Happy 2025!

Fiat is over if you want it!

Getting comfortable with the idea that anything is possible. And I don’t mean only in a “dreams come true” kind of way, but also that most of what we know about history and science might be fake, and our understanding of ourselves and the universe is about to be severely upended.

Trying out my new keyboard. What do you think?

2025 starting off great. nostr:note1kzy8rl7v7fvhel7x9whlwqpn8j5gv5nfd2fwhly4f7vlqhcvv3eqwmj5qq

Can anyone already living in 2025 tell me if zaps are still working?

The Purpose of Bitcoin

The purpose of bitcoin is not a new form of money, nor a new economic system—but a new form of life.

It is a life that is removed from the paranoia and schizophrenia of a system of power and control in which one can never know their real standing, where all may be labeled an enemy of the state and eliminated without notice or access to the law. It is a system of politics that we call fiat, and today in ensnares all people everywhere around the entire globe and enslaves all towards its destructive and evil cause. Today we all exist within this system where the right to economic, political, and spiritual activity may be eliminated at anytime under emergency decrees of any state. The purpose of Bitcoin is to liberate all beings everywhere from this system abuse and slavery forever.

The purpose of Bitcoin is to allow for all peoples everywhere, from now unto eternity, to return to a private life that is separated from the fiat state and reserve for themselves alone. It is a life which is imbued with purpose and meaning in the deepest sense of the words, for it allows all beings to now choose what forms of life they will have, and how they will choose to live them without that becoming an objective of the politics of the fiat states. This is very idea of what freedom means, and how we choose to live will no longer be an object of any fiat politics any longer. No longer will we be used for the rape and exploitation of their system of endless wars, infinite surveillance, and endemic nihilistic abuse to serve its own sadistic ends.

This refusal to be part of the fiat system, this choice for the freedom and purpose of Bitcoin will now raise itself to the task of The Political that is above any fiat state politics, and will become the method by which all peoples everywhere and forever will liberate themselves from the shackles and yoke of fiat slavery. It is the banishment of the last vestiges of slavery through the promise of a form of wealth and property that will no longer be predicated upon the systematic organization of violence under the fiat state, and the barbarism that it always must be. Bitcoin is our declaration of freedom against the fiat system, and our decision to no longer participate in it any longer.

For what does it mean when all beings everywhere may now be free from the economic slavery from fiat, not just now, but forever? What happens when beings unify themselves under the banner of economic and political peace, and choose to wage an everlasting war against the violence and barbarism of fiat slavery, not just for ourselves, but for the future as well? What becomes of the story of humanity and the story of history when this decision is made by individual free beings to no longer participate in the collectivist slavery that is fiat and the horrors it demands? Bitcoin is the premonition of the overturning of the rot and nihilism of fiat slavery that has hollowed out the world, and rescues all of us for a rejuvenation towards a life of purpose and meaning that we create together through the rejection of fiat, and what that means for the world, and the purpose that offers to each of us.

The purpose of Bitcoin is to offer each of us a return to honor, dignity, and a meaningful life in knowing there are things more valuable than material goods, and that the energy of the future will demand from all of us forever its own meaningful securing of itself for its own future. This is now possible and promised with the digital property law called Bitcoin and the digital oath that it is to itself. It is a record, a ledger of the truth of this history and what the real hidden value of wealth is when it can no longer be controlled by any single being, institution, or state any longer. Bitcoin is the proof of this value, and the purpose of people from all around the world when they choose to create a new form of property and law together that is beyond the power of any fiat state to destroy. It is the overturning of the authority of the state, for the truth of nature, and what that means for all beings in our world today, and into the future.

We hodl theses truths to be self-evident that all beings are created equally and that they are endowed by the very nature of the universe to use the power of cryptography to protect themselves when no others can. That each being’s property, their happiness, and their lives may be protected through the use of these techniques, and that all peoples should be allowed the understanding of what it means to have access to this kind of power, protection, and dignity that no fiat state can provide. Through these means and ends, Bitcoiners everywhere have choose to put their wealth in Bitcoin and declared their own economic and political independence from the fiat systems of slavery that seek to keep them in bondage and oppression. Together, Bitcoin offers each of us a new purpose from which we may save the world from the slavery of fiat, and liberate ourselves, our families, and all of posterity for a more fitting and judicious form of life for all beings, forever.