By stealing your money, they initiated the aggression, not you. Aggression in response to aggression is justified.
Most influential books on my life.
ECONOMICS/GOVERNMENT
The Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard
What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard
Democracy: The God that Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Market for Liberty - Morris Tannehill
Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard
The Most Dangerous Superstition - Larken Rose
A Spontaneous Order - Chase Rachels
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson
PHILOSOPHY
On Duties - Cicero
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Discourses - Epictetus
Lectures and Sayings - Musconius Rufus
Everything written by Taleb
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
Psychology of Totalitarianism -Matthias Desmet
HISTORY
The Creature from Jekyll Island - G Edward Griffin
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss
FICTION
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Mandibles - Lionel Shriver
BITCOIN
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
The Fiat Standard -Saifedean Ammous
EU power outages remind me of why I think going off-grid should be on the long-term “to-do” list of every bitcoiner.
You can have your node and your self-custody setup, but if the State cuts the power cord (intentionally or unintentionally) and you have no alternative source of power, you’re screwed.
Sure, the equipment is expensive and requires a lot of learning, but everyone should be gearing towards this, one step at a time, imo.
If you are a specialist in violence, and your targets have their wealth in multi-sig, your business is going to fail.
This is why all governments will die.
World-changing technologies are rare. World-changing protocols are even rarer. World-changing monetary protocols only occur a few times in the history of the world.
Nobody is bullish enough.
It’s amazing how many people are afraid to buy bitcoin because we are near all-time highs. They’re thinking “what goes up must come down.”
They are still trying to time the market and sell back into dollars.
The money IS debt. When debt is paid back, the money vanishes.
Few understand this.
People absolutely lost their minds over DOGE, and it wasn’t enough to put a dent in the deficit, let alone the debt.
Your fairy tale of the US resolving its debt burden needs to die. It’s insolvent and never getting paid back.
The ship is sinking. Opt out or you’re going to go down with it.
“You sound like the guy who thinks for himself and does his own research 😂” - yeah, what a concept.
Resources can be acquired via voluntary exchange or via coercion.
Government acquires resources exclusively via coercion.
The world still has not grasped the implications of quantum physics.
The nature of reality is not Newtonian. The nature of reality is one based on frequencies, periodicities, and feedback loops.
Cycle theory is bs. All about global M2 + adoption
Many rightfully see that sports/Hollywood is bread and circuses. But few recognize that the endless and meaningless political debates are bread and circuses as well.
They want us to argue about red team vs. blue team while they continue to extract our energy.
Every “-ism” is just an excuse to steal other people’s stuff.
Socialism. Communism. Statism. Nationalism. Globalism.
It doesn’t matter. They’re all the same - they just differ in who gets the exclusive privilege of stealing.
Reject them all. Embrace freedom and individual sovereignty.
Everything else is a lie.
It’s association with shitcoins.
Normies are understandably confused. If it weren’t for shitcoins, the world would already be on a bitcoin standard.
Sounds like none of these solutions can be provided in pill form. Hence why big medicine is so opposed to decentralized medicine
Bitcoin provides a trustworthiness filter in all domains.
There are tens of thousands of doctors, lawyers, accountants, writers etc, but those who are Bitcoiners have proven that they are courageous and open-minded. The “do you understand Bitcoin?” filter is an effective method to distill the infinite voices down to a select few that habitually think from first principles.
I think this has been true, but will become less true as property continues to move into the digital domain. Digital property, properly secured, is an allodial title, meaning that the employment of violence offers little to nothing to those who wish to confiscate it
Lone-coiners are leaving a lot on the table.
When you interact with other bitcoiners, even just online, you bounce ideas off one another and everyone’s understanding grows.