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What if our monetary future does not continue down the path of centralization and debasement but, rather, follows a new path of decentralization and growing value? Today’s dollar hegemony was engineered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Tomorrow, the currency of America could be based on the twin ideals of the Founding Fathers and Satoshi Nakamoto.

Unlike America, which lost its first battle over centralization just a few years after its founding, Bitcoin won its first battle over centralization during the Blocksize War, where user control and personal freedom defeated business interests and the concentration of power.

On July 4, 1821, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams warned of an America that would become a global imperium “in search of monsters to destroy.” An America where the “fundamental maxims of her policy” have “insensibly changed from liberty to force,” where we have become “the dictatress of the world.”

Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and that our true march is “of the mind” and not the sword.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-the-american-idea

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

Bastiat on the IMF and World Bank

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

The most FOMO I ever had for a conference was not going to Oslo this year. Had too much stuff clustered around this time to make it easily workable.

Most bitcoin conferences are great, but there's different energy in Oslo. Feels more like the essence of what this is all about.

I've also found, when talking to some (generally wealthy) American media personalities and so forth, is that the inflationary/authoritarian country use-case for bitcoin is generally off their radar until someone really gives them examples. They just think, "Visa works fine, why do I need the BitCoins?" and when you explain, "Well look at the underbanked percentage in this country" or "Look at how these democracy advocates had their bank accounts frozen" or "You're not a fan of Putin, eh? Well let me tell you about how Nalvany's organization used bitcoin to circumvent Putin's bank freezes for quite a while." or "Imagine you're in a small country with hyperinflation and decide to leave. You can't bring a lot of cash or gold with you. What asset do you bring to get more of your wealth out? And when getting that asset, wouldn't it have been better to hold some as a permanent part of your savings before you need it, rather than try to get some after things fall apart and capital controls are more firmly in place?"

Alex Gladstein's books, Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression, or his associated talks/presentations on those topics, are I think really powerful to showcase to normal people who don't think about this stuff too often why this technology is important.

Appreciate that, Lyn… we definitely missed you!!! 🇳🇴

“Factoring in indirect deaths, the total death toll in post-9/11 war zones could be at least 4.5-4.6 million and counting”

The Costs of War Project is a hugely sobering and important resource

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths

This steak was legendary

Wow!

Free Assange ✌️

Reminder: CZ has been trying to build CBDCs for dictatorships

Yes, it’s true a lot of people rely on Binance in the developing world

But they are not good actors

Spent 2+ hours with Nate Hagens covering human rights, the global monetary system, the petrodollar, energy and currency, debt imperialism, and finally, Bitcoin

I love Nate’s work so was thrilled to join him for his show

His thesis of a “great simplification” based on exhaustion of fossil fuels lines up with the belief of many Bitcoiners that we will eventually have a fiat credit collapse

Nate is a Bitcoin skeptic but is very open minded, this was one of my favorite conversations, and I’d offer that it’s a good one to share with progressives or centrists or really anyone new to Bitcoin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84tyIokAY8

Not great. Let’s see if they are released or disappeared — the latter is what happens in fear societies

Stoked to be speaking at the Indonesia Bitcoin Conference on Oct 26-27

“A Bitcoin-only conference that aims to increase awareness and understanding about Bitcoin and to strengthen the Bitcoin community in Indonesia. Powered by Indonesia Bitcoin Community”

Can’t really imagine a more important place to have such an event:

-World’s largest Muslim country

-Heart of Southeast Asia

-Target of relentless IMF and World Bank exploitation

-$10 billion inflow of annual remittances

✌️ 🇮🇩 🌏

https://indonesiabitcoinconference.com

I think maybe it can grow to be useful but the community on there right now is….

Seeing a lot of this attitude on Blue Sky unfortunately

There’s no way I’d be where I am today without these two

They’ve been such guiding lights for me on my Bitcoin journey

🫂 🙏 🧡✌️

Check Your Financial Privilege is meant for someone who knows very little about Bitcoin