Anyone who thinks that Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, is not going to try to fork #Bitcoin is mistaken.
Be very careful with this Wall Street snake. It's anything but bitcoin.
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I’m with Witney Webb on the dangers of the #Bitcoin movement faltering by surrendering to “big brother”
Not needed. Not helpful.
One thing they are not divided over is that they all work for him :)
Of course, there are three results of the #Bitcoin IQ test. 1. A. People who get it and are good people 1 B. People who get and are evil people (idiot) and 2. Stupid
Not bigger is better, better is better.
The whole point of #Bitcoin is to be P2P. To cut out big brother. No third party required. If you want to do your part, get a node, a small solo miner and a hardware wallet. And wait.
Yes, #Bitcoin turns greed into altruism. One of the greedy authoritarian’s already broke rank. Larry Fink 🐦. Greed will be their undoing, indeed.
Exactly. By definition, otherwise they wouldn’t be authoritarians. To believe we could be saved by someone who is going to be the top authoritarian, presiding (President) over them, is naive.
How will we organize after hyperbitcoinization?
I’m wondering what our society will look like in the future. I’ve posted before (see below), thoughts about why large centralized democracies don’t work. So, in the vein of decentralization, we may end up moving toward small communities, tribes (or some #Bitcoiners refer to them as citadels) of like minded peoples in the pursuit of their happiness.
Which led me to look at how American Indians organized. They seemed to, within their tribes, live so harmoniously amongst themselves and with nature.
American Indians organized many decisions around family units and tribal councils. One way to illustrate how it works is to look how American Indians disincentivized bad behavior.
Now probably the first thing to know about Native American history is that there was very little crime. Perhaps crime and punishment go with Western Industrial-type nations. Historically, travelers to the outermost regions of Native America commented on how honest and how little crime existed.
So what did they do if one of their own committed a “crime”?
Firstly, tgere were no jails. Secondly, while all tribes were different, in matters of severe offenses, the family or the clan usually dealt with the offender. Often the person guilty of the crime was “sentenced” to go away from the tribe and try to make it on his own — which in the long ago past, was almost a testiment to a death sentence. In the Lakota tribe there is a reference in the book, WATER LILY, about the offender having to make restitution with the family by taking a role in the family. Usually such people were so happy to not be put out of the tribe, that they became the best family members of all. Imagine if this were so in our society today? That the offender had to make restitution with the family for his acts? What do you think might be the result? Less crime, perhaps?
In the Creek society, as well as the Blackfeet, the crime of adultery (for women only) was a cut off nose — the tip of the nose. This was usually performed at the request of the offending husband and was done by the society that he belonged to.
As far as stealing is concerned, it was almost unheard of. George Catlin remarked that in all his travels in Native America he had never had one single thing taken from him, or even a hand lifted against him. In truth, one young man made quite a journey to join Catlin in order to return to him some of his property. However, if stealing had been done, the offending party again made restitution with the “victim” by supplying them with whatever they needed in return. Seems a much simplier process, doesn’t it? Make up the damage one has done to the person who has been harmed, himself.
Besides almost non-existent crime, there was also no poverty. Some people were more prosperous than others — such has always been the case amongst a people. But noone went hungry when there was food to be had within the tribe, nor did anyone go without.
And if a culture is known by its humanity towards others and the material condition of its people, then I would have to say that American Indians were, indeed, a culture to be proud.
#Bitcoin. Fix the money, fix the world.
#Bitcoin. It’s the only chance we have.
Parts extracted verbatim from CRIME & PUNISHMENT — Native American Style
October 14, 2008 by Karen Kay
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Unpopular opinion, but the #Bitcoin conference is very fiat.
This is where I always quote this:
H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points:
1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty."
2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness."
3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal."
4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken.
5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists.
6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest."
7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye."
8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it."
9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect...
10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack."
-a tweet from @oldbooksguy
Well, they all work for the same people….
Humans aren’t well
The vast majority of people are in denial, aggressively fighting the truth. Suffering from mass-psychosis and cognitive dissonance, induced by propaganda and psy ops. Humans easily manipulated through there natural tendencies towards narcissism and hedonism. And for the manipulators? They seem to be wrapped up in satanic rituals and cults (free masons etc). Also a mental disease….humans aren’t well.
I do believe #Bitcoin fixed this, as it aligns incentives towards productive values. Only if you produce value, will you earn #BTC. The consequences for bad behavior are dire. Right now, Bitcoin caters to greed, to convert it to altruism as the purchasing power increases during adoption. After hyperbitcoinization its value for value. It will heal people by giving the time back. To focus on their spirit and well being. Perhaps art, architecture or actual innovation.
#Bitcoin is the only chance we have.
From Serious Businessman To Balance Sheet Trickster - Germany's Fast Decline
The eurozone is teetering on the brink of the next sovereign debt crisis. Meanwhile, tthe largest economy, Germany, is setting a poor example with its balance sheet trickery at the fiscal level.
If you travel through Germany, you can still sense the old spirit of the German merchant class in some regions, such as cities like Lübeck or Flensburg on the Baltic Sea. The impressive merchant house, the architecture that expressed what it takes to achieve economic success, still stands today as a cautionary example for future generations. Seriousness, courage, trustworthiness and visionary power - these were values that earned the German merchant class from the 18th century on respect anywhere in the world.
And this has been reflected over long periods since these days, when the spirit of merchant ethics slowly began to take hold in German politics, which until the great world wars was of course rather particularized, but nevertheless reflected the breath of openness and respectability, and was lived out in the growing, booming middle class. The business ethic and the success based on it served as guidelines for politicians for a long time. In this way, what belonged together in Germany merged: an ethic of responsibility with economic success.
If you look at today's politics, you have to realize that there is virtually nothing left of this spirit of respectability. The green rainbow stalinism has infiltrated any social strato - it's a mind virus that attacks exactly the known fundamental principles of a stable and economical growing society. Germany's current fiscal situation looks bleak, the country is in recession and the state's debt is rising.
The serious merchant role model has become a political balance sheet trickster, and Germany has become accustomed to removing large parts of expenditure such as the green transformation, this but funny apocalyptic dream, military expenditure for the Ukraine war or even the well-encapsulated energy subsidies for the collapsing economy from the state's official balance sheet into so-called shadow budgets.
So if you want to analyze Germany's true debt problem, you have to delve deep into the labyrinthine paths of political trickery, balance sheet falsification and counterfeiting. If Germany sets the standard as the largest economy in the eurozone, then extreme caution is required when investing in this location. The crisis of the economy, the collapsing culture and society has only just begun and it will certainly not be solved with these vulgar political instruments.
Well documented, we know from the past that the moment balance sheet trickery becomes a habit, the ship has already sunk. There is nothing left to fix here, the day when the central bank will lose influence over the financing costs of the growing debt mountain, and the bond market will determine where it goes, is inexorably approaching.
The looming social and economic crisis, reflected in the aforementioned balance sheet trickery by politicians, will in the long term force society back onto a path of respectability and proper economic activity. One day, the Germans will return to the qualities of their old merchant culture and thus usher in a new era. Until then, turbulent times lie ahead!
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Has a people’s destroyed ethnicity ever recovered? ( the social and cultural characteristics, backgrounds, or experiences shared by a group of people. These include language, religion, beliefs, values, and behaviors that are often handed down from one generation to the next)
Tourism is so fiat. People from shit holes destroyed by fiat gawking at beautiful places thereby turning them into shit holes.
If you sleep with whores you’re bound to get std.
