thanks for the kind words. 🙏
glad it resonated.
yes, the natural law argument would be just as compelling then as it is now.
on the flip side, if we told them about fiat, i bet they would have a hard timing believeing such a system came to be. lol
Headed to the mines to grind and grind.
I’ll be off all socials until it’s done. 🫡
If for some reason you need to contact me, I can be reached via phone, email, or the contact form at the bottom of https://www.modernchains.com/
What legal rights would you sacrifice in order to ensure all natural rights were honored?
nostr:nprofile1qqsparvr390wxzkj23x62pdperv4xvx72hepjy07hhvwy2dt05um6ecpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6gpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqhrjhpg is an amazing warrior for truth.
Had a blast talking with him.
He is my people.
If you want to understand earthquakes, you need to understand tectonics.
If you want to understand economcis. you need to understand ethics.
How much do we talk ethics? 👀
#bitcoin #nostr
I think a lot of people live as though their lives aren’t real.
I mean, at least as much as you have allodial title of your own life.
They kill you, they can take ur gold.
Not necessarily the case with bitcoin.
I think it is better than fiat. It comes with other trade-offs which make it a non-starter imo. Like we have steel, why are we talking about building a skyscraper out of bamboo?
For me, the value proposition of bitcoin has almost nothing to do with the fiat price and almost everything to do with self custody.
Infinitely better than fiat, but it comes with a bunch of other limitations.
“What the world does not afford, no subject can value.” 👀
Hip mobility is to your body what #bitcoin is to your money.
Being, all the way down, is relational.
If anyone deserves to be in chains, I think Keynes definitely makes the list.
If it’s not #bitcoin, it’s just trust all the way down.
On ‘In God We Trust’ 👀
“This inscription is either a brazen deception or a chilling confession. If it exists merely to pacify the public, then it is an outright lie: a calculated illusion constructed to obscure the system’s true nature. But if taken at face value, it reveals something far more concerning: the system’s governors do not merely manage money; they fancy themselves gods, wielding control over wealth, prosperity, and the very lives of millions with divine impunity. And here lies the cruel irony of modern progress: even the ancient pagans knew they were not gods.”
-Modern Chains
This is a good clip:
nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9rltx2x nostr:nprofile1qqst5teefqektpr4aytgpwyclxlq78v9q9nvd2pem0sgf5pxdttwyzsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtndd9hxguewvdhk6tmwdaehguszlxcxw Inflation/debasement is not theft.
We have to look at the object of the crime to identify its category.
They aren’t taking the dollars out of your wallet.
No property is taken from you when they debase the money.
They are coercively extracting your productive energy, the real value created and stored inside the monetary object.
That’s formal slavery, instead of using physical domination they achieve the same end through monetary manipulation.
The same way murder, unjust taking of life, is murder whether you stab someone with a sword or poison their coffee.
Debasement isn’t like slavery.
It is slavery.
“theft” kind of works as vague rhetoric, a clumsy gesture at something evil, but it’s bad moral philosophy and really misses the point imo
A weak man can consume.
A strong man can create.
A weak woman dissolves.
A strong woman generates.
😳 it was 50F yesterday and i was cold 🥶 🤣
Each of us is a rational moral agent.
Even if we would rather pretend not.
That’s empowering.
And even more terrifying.
fortunately, we don’t need to wait around passively, you can take action and escape the oppression
I can’t look away.
Bitcoin is monetary yoga toes for civilization.
It’s Thanksgiving, have a second helping.
the transition is a messy and tough process, but I think when we denominate our lives in bitcoin, it kind of defuses the anxiety bomb.
If you are always converting your work and the value you create in the world into bitcoin, and spending bitcoin, you always benefit.
Cheap sats or more purchase power.
The circular economy is ideal, but even if we are working a fiat job, “spend and replace” still de-energizes the fiat world.
we want all the energy from fiat world to flow into bitcoin. it will slosh back and forth in the transition, the daily volitility, but the long term straight 45 up and to the right growth line is being driven by one singular principle: moral money is more valuable than immoral money.
Every little cut we put in the beast helps.
We will take fiat and central banking down
yeah, quality always over quantity when it comes to human relations
limits define what is and what is not.
Without the distinction between this and that, we cannot be anything.
Life will always be full of mystery, wonder and awe.
Reality reveals itself to us.
We don’t summon reality.
It doesn’t heed our call.
I get what you’re saying.
I guess I just think of buying bitcoin as an act of building itself.
Building can happen in parallel to destruction type of thing.
🚨This one is graphic… prayers for Charlie and his family
https://blossom.primal.net/7cdeb287e870ac034c8f50f28c81969f303ff41935bcddbc6ad4ae9bd27a155d.mov
Sucks that it wasn’t enough to save him :(
It’s also harder for the older to perceive because they owned the appreciating assets that shield them
from the abuse, which seems like comfort.
For my father in law to accept bitcoin for the moral corrective it is, is to tacitly accept that his nominal gains were the fruit of debasement.
He likes to think he was just smarter than everyone, and that’s a blow to the ego.
Ego will keep many on the sinking ship.
I won’t compromise my values,
but I am an optimizer.
I’ll work as smart and hard as a I can:
keeping my soul intact.
The fully actalized person only highlights through contrast the latent potential in others.
Envy is a base impulse, an incontinent emotional reaction.
To acknowledge and celebrate another success is a higher ordered response which can actualize things you never knew lay dormant within you.
for sure, nuclear options would require the most dire of all circumstances
I don’t know, i just know that’s how you render all the bad actor miners obsolete.
such a fork cuts theirs legs off
like i said, would be a nuclear option
change off of sha-256
nuclear option
One of the most powerful yet terrifying truth is that every choice you make matters.
Bitcoin > Central Planning.
End the Fed 😉
https://blossom.primal.net/20cfe0e5eba68e147471ccc5ccb8ff44ce1810399c18f92377565765449edb67.mp4
It’s not complicated.
It’s rudimentary with snail mail, but I can now make sats/zaps 4 books happen.
Basic idea is the floor covers my cost of book + shipping, and any thing additional would be a V4V tip.
If that is of interest just reach out to me anywhere.
#bitcoin #nostr #grownnostr
#zaps #sats #V4V
intuitively i would want to agree with you, but just about every politician follows this model regardless of the world’s regrets.
She got a 20 million dollar advance..
this book will sell 17 copies
What’s more important: $1mil #bitcoin or onboarding 1 mil regular families and 5-10x’ing node count?
There is an objectively correct answer.
#nostr #philosophy