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History & geopolitics through a #Bitcoin lense.

#Bitcoin #art:

Pietà (1876) - William-Adolphe Bouguereau

“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant owning some #Bitcoin.”

-Guru Nanak

The 🇺🇸US was once a manufacturing powerhouse before becoming a military powerhouse

🇨🇳China is the manufacturing powerhouse now

Will it also become the #1 military in the world?

#Bitcoin or #fiat?

Which is for criminals & terrorists?

Estimated yearly money laundering:

Banks: $800B - $2T

#Bitcoin: $2.9B

Banks also paid $321B in fines since 2008!

#Bitcoin uses HALF the energy of gold & banking

And doesn't requires state bureaucracies, banks, government buildings, Visa, MasterCard, Venmo, offices, servers, armies, police, extra courts, prisons, etc.

The first European ship in China was Portugese and came in 1513

China's "age of humiliation" started in 1839

If China adhered more to the #Bitcoin principle of de-centralisation the “age of humiliation” would never have happened

#geopolitics #history

#Fiat drives mal-investments through distorted price signals

➡ governments choose winners and losers via interest rates, regulation, tariffs, subsidies, etc.

This is the real danger to environment & well-being!

#Bitcoin fixes this

#Bitcoin is NOT bad for the environment

#Bitcoin consumes less energy than the existing system (based on war & debt)

It uses wasted energy, and drives energy efficiency & innovation 🌍🍃

Gold is just as digital as #Bitcoin: It requires digital markers to use

Nobody is going to carry or send actual gold around the world

It's digital but without being the bearer-asset #Bitcoin is

"...large Russian companies are already actively using cryptocurrency in foreign trade settlements..."

The adoption of #Bitcoin is happening right before our eyes

Don't get distracted by short-term price. It is happening!

https://news.bitcoin.com/russian-companies-actively-using-crypto-russia-to-adopt-4-relevant-laws-official-says/

17th century Netherlands comes to mind which punched above its weight after it was the First Nation to use the new fintech of that time, the stock market…

Britain later copied that strategy and due to its bigger size become much more powerful.

The US should do the same and copy successful strategies instead of trying to fight them.

Only sMiles… earn sats while playing chess 😎