People say we're early in terms of Bitcoin adoption.
I say we're still early in terms of internet adoption itself.
The internet is nowhere near its final form.
They were streaming NBA games as well!
You'll be able to find a lot more clippable content here:
Here's another Rothbard clip in which he talks about the power of ideas. Nothing about the future is pre-determined. Neither tyranny nor freedom is inevitable. Agency is real. https://video.nostr.build/aff5a060b7b722fa3a528f33796f64b42f4e2059034253f0220249897b7282eb.mp4
I've seen quite a lot of grassroots level Bitcoin education in Europe. I think Europeans are fine but it's going downhill in the coming years for the tyrants who rule them.
More than managing exposure and risk, distancing from it where possible would be a good idea. Can't rely on it to help with anything.
If there's enough personal bandwidth for it, one can also spread ideas that would weaken its legitimacy.
There's a little part of Nostr where people occasionally talk about Austrian economics and Libertarianism. Most of them happen to be Bitcoiners. I like that part a lot. It's a great part.
Also nostr:nprofile1qqs04nd0rnn4300sfn0358ar9g6kffsg6j4uyjq69phlc9u0s62nauqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsy2lzkz and nostr:nprofile1qqsqgxx294kdd3lmcnsrjxahg5p8qga8ak7r3u4xplpmdrcqdmact6cppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtc5x2ww8 might also be interested in checking the Tamil relay out and inviting others
If you speak any of the languages in this page https://lang.relays.land/ and you've been looking all your life for a reasonably safe relay that only accepts notes in your language then you're invited to try it now.
Let me know so I can add you and then you can invite others.
Nice!
I speak Tamil. Can you add me to the Tamil relay?
He's one of those people the commies can't use their common retort 'you haven't read the literature' against.
Reading literature you do not agree with takes a special kind of intellectual acumen, leave alone patiently and competently retorting with 1000's of words, which he of course did.
His work on the 'Progressive era' is probably the best source of information to understand the potential direction the US Government x US Bitcoin industry alliance is going to take
Mises Institute is probably the best source for Rothbard's work. They might have a lot of unpublished audio recordings of his lectures.
Ngl, simply reading everything he has published would itself take a lot of time 😂
Murray Rothbard on the European Union, circa 1989. Spoiler alert; he was on the money. Literally.
https://blossom.primal.net/8589351ef17ca8d7dfffac715c6b9d89592a400aaa335272e511cffd9cd3a159.mp4
What an intellectual and scholar this man was.
If Bitcoiners read everything Rothbard has written, the movement will be taken to the next level, because Bitcoin can truly make his ideas a reality, in a 'sly, roundabout way'.
His book 'For a New Liberty' is a great place to start.
https://mises.org/library/book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto
I simply cannot wrap my head around the fact that people who advocate for free speech and privacy do not show the same amount of vigour and enthusiasm for abolition of tax coercion, removal of trade barriers, rapid deregulation, total privatization, legalization of victimless crimes, abolition of fiat money and making property rights absolute.
Surely, it is obvious that the state monopoly cannot co-exist with privacy and free speech?
If the state considers the taking of a portion of your income by force 'legal', it could easily also justify the monitoring of all your financial and economic activity.
The legal system wouldn't need to resort to deterrence (which requires mass surveillance) rather than punishment if it could allocate resources efficiently and provide services effectively, rather than relying on a capturable and corruptible monopoly provider like the state who does the opposite.
It wouldn't need to monitor what you import and export if it doesn't think a certain category of goods are illegal to be traded.
It wouldn't have to monitor your companies and their workings, operations and balance sheets if it didn't think you were engaging in production in a way that it thought was inappropriate.
It wouldn't have access to your transactions if all of them aren't made through an institution which has bent the knee to the state.
If anything the state declares as a crime is considered so, then it can just add an increasing amount of activities as being potentially leading to criminality, which it will monitor to ensure compliance.
You wouldn't need to ask permission to speak your mind if nobody could enter or trespass your land without your consent, and if nobody can prevent you from using acquiring or using your property harmlessly in any way you deem fit. You could just build a hall, invite people and organise a conference. You could just set up an internet connection without a license. You can start a publication and build a reader base. You can build a movie theatre and broadcast whatever you want. You can protest all day everyday by buying a street or a plot.
As long as the state exists and we depend on its monopoly for crucial services, privacy and free speech will always be under threat.
Bitcoin comes into existence by people peacefully competing with each other, absent of aggression.
It is already legitimate. It doesn't need positive legislation to become so.
'I agree, but that's not how things work.'
No, that is how things work.
So to speak.