Smol rant on the lingo of money...

Currency is backed by money.

Money itself has no backing.

If it did, the backer is money, the backee is currency, not money.

Bitcoin is becoming money of the world. Not global currency. Not reserve currency. Not asset (which can appreciate in value), but money (whic measures value).

It is not money yet, except for the community of traders that truly use it as money, isolated from their country's trade and it's money (ie no one).

Again, Bitcoin is not money, it is becoming money.

This is not a blemish on Bitcoin, it is about defining money. Clearing this up helps discussions.

One way to think of money which might help is like this...

1) first define the circle around the economy, eg Australia

2) then look for the token that is ubiquitously accepted and preferred in trade.

In Australia, AUD is money.

In Uzbekistan, AUD is not money.

Bitcoin is not money in either economy.

For the entire world, we have barter, but the closest thing to money is USD. Gold certainly is not world money, because USD by far is preferred.

USD isn't backed by gold. If it was, gold would be money, and USD would be currency (as it once was).

So USD is money of the world, nearly. It certainly is money of USA.

Labelling it money does not award the property of it being good, nor sound. USD like all fiat is unsound money, and shit. "Sound" referring to ease of creating more (hard money vs easy money, DONT SAY SOFT MONEY!🤣)

I could be wrong about the following, and if so, it doesn't change what I've said so far, but I'm not sure if gold was ever world money (as opposed to local money in local trade in multiple communities across the world).

I can't confirm if there ever was a time when there was significant world trade where gold was preferred over bartering the money of each country... When each country has gold as money, international trade was insignificant, I SUSPECT.

As international trade grew, paper trade took over to solve the friction.

If correct, this suggests gold can never serve the world economy as money, it will always need paper.

Bitcoin fixes gold.

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Bitcoin is the base unit. sat is the fractional unit. Can’t get simpler than that.

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Great observation!

Yes, the root chakra corresponds with physical reality and base survival.

In Kabbalah, on the Tree of Life, the central column has good (but not perfect 1:1) correspondence to the chakras. The bottom Sephirah on the central column of the Tree of Life is "Malkuth" which means "kingdom" or "ground". It represents physical reality.

This makes further sense because the "Holy Trinity" of Divine Masculine plus Divine Feminine equals Divine Child extends to souls and the physical world. In order for something to be considered of the masculine, that thing must penetrate, e.g. wisdom penetrates foolishness and power penetrates resistance. For something to be considered of the feminine, that thing must receive, e.g. understanding requires receptivity and mercy requires acceptance.

So, could we say that the physical universe is feminine because it "receives" us as souls for our human experience we are here having?

I think that's quite fair. Likewise, I think it is fair to then say that souls are of the masculine as souls "penetrate" physical reality in our little flesh suit observation avatars.

Those concepts map onto Chi and Rho, the Greek letters.

χ Chi - Anima Mundi - Soul of the World

P Rho - Axis Mundi - Pillar of the World

Soul maps to "souls".

Pillar maps to "stone...concrete...physical...physical world"

Chi and Rho are (one of many) representations of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine which are the sets of Divine traits that are penetrative and receptive, respectively.

What you are feeling when you witness, for example, a "fail compilation" video filled with skateboarders racking themselves and all sorts of other Darwin award nominees, it seems to me like it's clairsentience, that is "clear feeling".

Hindu teachings speak of "siddhis" like clairvoyance. Others are clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance. There are others, but they're not all clairs. Magnetoreceptive vision could be a siddhi. There are others too.

It would make sense to me if clairsentience...clear feeling...was related to the root chakra. That seems appropriate to me.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that what you described that you experience, I experience that as well. I don't know that everyone experiences this but for all I know they could.

I think it means you're empathetic and sensitive to the suffering of others which is desirable in my and many others' opinions.

Really vivid dream last night, extremely colorful. I was back in Hampden, Baltimore. I was very excited because I owned a shop on the strip. But when I went to visit the shop it was all dilapidated and gross, which made sense at the time because I had clearly forgotten I owned it and only just remembered. So I was sitting on the front stoop crying because there was all this work to be done and I wouldn't have a clean and ready shop in time for the festival. Thats when I noticed one of the back windows had been kicked in and there was someone sleeping in a sleeping bag. I went inside to confront the squatter, when I noticed he had very nice suits laid out and everything in the back area where he lived was clean and tidy. He had short blonde hair and blue eyes and didn't seem like he was on drugs. So we got to talking and agreed that he could stay there as long as he acted as a shop manager and got it ship shape before the festival. #dreamstr

I haven't lived back in Maryland for well over a decade now. This year I keep having these dreams where I'm back there. I miss it so much, and I never did before. And then I wake up still in this strange uncomfortable place and now I've been crying all morning feeling homesick for a place that never felt like home when I was growing up. I have faith I'll find my forever home eventually 🏡🫂