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State Adoption: A Trojan Horse Challenging Core Tenets of Personal Liberty
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Though the road is arduous, our principles today can secure financial sovereignty for generations to come. Let us carry the torch of individual liberty so its light may one day illuminate a just world, where Bitcoin fulfills its purpose as independent, peer-to-peer money for all, unfettered by censorship or authoritarian control. Our actions today shape the economic emancipation of tomorrow.
State Adoption: A Trojan Horse Challenging Core Tenets of Personal Liberty
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As interventionist policies persistently erode the value of fiat currency, the State, grappling with an existential threat, will fiercely endeavor to maintain its facade of authority. This will involve heightened efforts to shape public perception and resorting to draconian measures to retain control. During crises, the State historically manufactures consent, and in its desperation, even co-opting Bitcoin to serve as a tool for State control might emerge as a conceivable outcome. We should not be so quick to cheer on the State's adoption of Bitcoin if it comes with strings attached.
State Adoption: A Trojan Horse Challenging Core Tenets of Personal Liberty
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If the government's ability to ban Bitcoin is constrained, what alternative strategies might it employ to undermine or co-opt the network?
What if, instead of a direct ban on Bitcoin, the State employed subtle and indirect strategies to manipulate or even co-opt it, ultimately achieving the same goal of rendering it ineffective or worse, a tool for State control?
State Adoption: A Trojan Horse Challenging Core Tenets of Personal Liberty
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The Tom Woods Show Ep. 2417 Could Trump Win as a Felon? and Other Questions from 2023 America
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"By not engaging in any other aspect of mining beyond hashing blocks constructed by pools, Bitcoin miners have largely abdicated a critical component of their role. The fact that this is not only possible but also the path of least resistance indicates that we have a systemic issue."
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Mises on the History of Warfare
"The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another."
Warmaking causes man to become animalistic: “What distinguishes man from animals is the insight into the advantages that can be derived from cooperation under the division of labor.” The international division of labor both produces and is the product of peace.
The philosophy of liberalism, which champions the division of labor, is incompatible with “statolatry,” “the counterfeit theology of the divine state.” Those who worship this false god must reckon with the terrible consequences of its evil wars. “Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled from the dwelling places in which their ancestors lived for centuries.”
At base level, all anarchism claims to do is to resolve one major problem in interpersonal relationships: the forceful interjection of the state. Curing cancer would make things a lot better for many people. Yes, there would be costs: oncologists would be out of work, and cancer researchers would need new subjects to explore. An anarchist world would still have murderers, and thieves, and evil men and women. It simply wouldn't put them in a position to enforce their evil on everyone else via getting elected and decreeing the law.
Michael Malice
It is impossible to have a radical philosophy without at first sounding like a lunatic or a moron. One of the reasons for this is that most radical philosophies are lunacy, and the rest for the most part are moronic. To proclaim earnestly that This, the status quo, doesn't just need tweaks or massive changes but a fundamental reorganization is an enormously high task to argue for. It's akin to discussing a friend and mentioning that he's very tall. One can perhaps push the envelope with an eight-foot-tall friend. But to claim someone is, say, twenty feet tall or apple feet tall simply wouldn't make any sense. The listener would have no frame of reference to even approximate what was meant to be said. This is what a society without the state sounds like to most people, for they have taken the legitimacy of government for granted all of their lives. An alternative is incomprehensible.
How Statism Leads to War | Human Action Podcast
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The Anarchist shouldn't fight the minarchist when they both live under the rule of a leviathan State.
I think there can be politicians like Ron Paul that ran on the practical grounds of playing defense against the growth of the State, advocating for shrinking the State substantially and ending the Fed.
Yes politics is antithetical to liberty, but if a politician succeeds in drastically shrinking the size of the State I can't help but be somewhat sympathetic.
The Anarchist shouldn't fight the minarchist when they both live under the rule of a leviathan State.