In the winter of 1777 George Washington was stationed with his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. A mere 20 miles from British occupied Philadelphia.

Stationed troops were battling hunger and illness as the winter dragged on. Food stores at Valley Forge were growing rancid and supply was dwindling.

Forced to venture out to the surrounding area for supplies, Colonial soldiers were exchanging for provisions using the continental paper money. During the same time British troops were venturing into the same overlapping area and buying stores from farms with their gold and silver.

This paper money the colonialists were using was seen as far inferior to the money the British were provisioned with. Exchange between the locals and military men greatly favored the British during this period.

This reminds me of the quote by Saifedean "History shows it is not possible to insulate yourself from the consequences of others holding money that is harder than yours."

At the next Auckland Bitcoin Meet I am giving out free Bitcoin cookie cutters.

Imagine saying the US government should buy XRP ripple tokens with public money.

How does a decentralized and secure protocol interface with the sovereign?

We need boots on the ground. More Bitcoiners having conversations with politicians.

most innovations emerge from garages, rural warehouses, and small unknown laboratories

The very existence of a Digital Asset stockpile including other things than Bitcoin is the path we walk to any other digital asset than Bitcoin being thrown in the dust bin of history.

We walk any path, because they lead to the same place.

The term Bitcoiner might sunset from my vocabulary, idk.

Instead I'll just call people I would have called Bitcoiner "curious people".

Bitcoin is not an identity.

I'd bet the future of all the public land in this country that tragedy of the commons is a bunch of bullshit.

Bitcoin dramatically alters property rights, granting allodial title to the people. Emergent behaviors expressed in physical space should be drastically different when interacting with natural resources.

Permits, take limits, hunting seasons all go away with Bitcoin.

"Remember that time you could use an app to swap US dollars and buy Bitcoin?

Those were the good ole days"