https://cdn.satellite.earth/353cca55c6b0b7b7e27c82209005f3bbdb7dbec491458ff1b548f55531a3d1e3.mp4
The history of money and war.
Okay, the WW2 part and Germany though. The opposition was ideological. From ChatGPT:
In 1936, Winston Churchill strongly opposed Hitler not because of Germany’s growing industrial power or its currency system, but mainly due to geopolitical and ideological concerns. He warned that Germany was violating the Treaty of Versailles by secretly rearming and rebuilding its military. Churchill viewed Hitler’s totalitarian regime as a brutal and authoritarian threat to European peace. He was particularly alarmed by Germany's aggressive nationalism and militarization, especially after the reoccupation of the Rhineland, which signaled a clear intent to challenge the post–World War I order and destabilize Europe.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/353cca55c6b0b7b7e27c82209005f3bbdb7dbec491458ff1b548f55531a3d1e3.mp4
The history of money and war.
This is an incredible video! Where's this from?
> Sovereign countries in the present dynamic will not embrace Bitcoin as a reserve as it reveals weakness.
You think so? Even Pakistan, that famously organizes peacock like military demonstrations against India, is choosing to openly stack.
I feel that the times of less transparent geo politics are over. I think now it's more like who stacks first will win more in the long term.
If Trump manages to get a relatively substantial Bitcoin reserve before China, the game changes completely and forever.
Because China has the production and skills. That's clear. But they don't have the capital or the financial/ownership/politics structure (i.e the reigns of capitalism?). And a move to the most pristine form of capital would truly bring a breath of fresh air to the US in that aspect.
If the US has a better financial position, while simultaneously improving their manufacturing position (taking a bit back from China), then the world will be in a better position for the longer term.
Because we need a freedom culture in the world too. We need freedom philosophy. We need philosophy and the US is probably one of the few places in the world where people still have the balls to say the truth. That's the most valuable thing in the world in my view.
#politics #philosophy #geopolitics
The real problem of the EU is it tries to apply high-productivity, high-tech, Nordic like regulation to countries that still use donkeys to produce goods.
It'll never work
#politics #europe #eu
Global M2 money supply and Bitcoin always correlates though.
And Global M2 supply is rising and will only rise.
More than half of the people have no idea that they're wrong. In the sense that states/governments have bought them and what they call work or reality is not work neither real.
#bitcoin
I guess there really isn't so much land to build also.
In my dreams I would love to help expand the Swiss model to other places in the world :) with plenty of affordable real estate, etc, etc.
I think north Portugal and Spain could be a great place for this. And also LATAM in certain places.
That would be incredible!
Bonds and real estate as an investment are the same thing.
It's an elite and fake "asset", with a fake monetary premium, chosen solely by the elites at the absolute top, governments and the very wealthy to be the store of value. They choose bonds and real estate to be the collateral, not us. They did.
The difference with Bitcoin is that the plebs chose it at the bottom and the elites also chose at the top. Nobody at the bottom chooses bonds and real estate as a store of value.
#finance #economics
Connection with nature will help show the way.
Where will gold climb to? Just look at this incredible climb. And this is in a high interest rate scenario. When they start printing gold can only keep rising.
This might be all part of a plan. A plan by the US government to artificially prop gold, revalue their balance sheet gold price at an all time high and then... if they're really smart, buy Bitcoin.
People like Luke Gromen have talked about how this gold rush was kind of artificial (for different reasons).
Could gold go up to 5k or 10k?
#economics #politics #bitcoin
The world is heading for a crisis that many governments deserve. Not the people, just the governments.
Governments have grown used to believing that free money is possible.
It worked, almost like a miracle, and for an incredible amount of time.
But that world is ending. The US formula of fiat exporting has ended. There's no more free money. The era of free money has ended.
#bitcoin
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
The reality is we can live with very little.
The reality is we don't need much.
Once we realize this, it can become a super power.
If we have nothing to lose, then we're free.
#philosophy
Intel, a company that powers 2 billion computers globally, 75% of the global total of computers, has a stock that underperforms REIT stocks.
And we're supposed to think the stock market reflects real productivity or the market, or any concrete value of any sort?
#economics #stock
I was just in a 2h conversation with a guy that hasn't studied monetary history, Bitcoin, gold standard, the current financial system, Austrian economics, etc, etc the whole thing.
And it's incredible. People are trying to find all the imaginable excuses within the system to somehow solve the problem. Stuff like we need much more growth, AI growth will solve the debt problem, "we can outgrow the debt away", more consumption, more demand, more manufacturing, more technology, more AI, faster computers, more energy, etc, etc, etc. No Bitcoin, just more growth.
And I'm like, on the opposite, what we need is time. Time to read, learn, think. Cheaper houses, less debt, smaller mortgages, smaller monthly payments. More free time.
People are addicted to the system. And I'm talking about good people, people with good intentions.
A lot of people don't see the alternative. Don't understand what they've lost without hard/sound money.
#bitcoin #conversations
A small snippet of Freddie Mercury's genius that not a lot of people know.
Always smart and deep Bitcoin discussions on CornyChat.
I always learn a lot with these guys. From deep Bitcoin technical stuff to deep financial/macro stuff.
It's very valuable. It's like a way to get up to date without actually having to watch any news, while simultaneously being able to ask questions.
Great stuff, thank you guys :)
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And all the gang!
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To everything, there is a season, turn turn turn.
A time to plant, a time to reap.
We gotta turn once in a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
#music
Elon becoming a full on Bitcoiner would indeed be the best thing for the world.
And if one thinks about it, it might just be the only middle ground in this whole thing.
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#bitcoin #politics #usa
Yes, but then there's also the problem of mining centralization. Which is an issue. Mining pools can centralize control, effectively becoming keys to writing on the Bitcoin chain.
I do think the current market dynamics, i.e West vs East, will allow Bitcoin to remain decentralized and also mining software like Datum/Stratum V2 will help immensely, but this is an and will always be an issue.
In other words, there's details that are fundamental to truly understand if one is to dive unto Bitcoin.
This post by nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk explain it very well: https://ocean.xyz/about and https://ocean.xyz/docs/datum
Damn, lifting weights on a Bitcoin downturn while listening to this is truly the future. That's it, we live in the future.
By the way, Nacho coins is hilarious. Nacho keys, Nacho coins.
Pretty heavy. I'm sure this is what happens at very late hours in Bitcoin raves :D
I also absolutely loved this too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEXw-LU18Ww
Such a banger. I'm sure they play this in Bitcoin parties too, it's too perfect.
There's $1000 plots of land in New Mexico. And a bunch of them.
I wonder why people don't usually do this kind of stuff more often? Buying cheap land and going to live in the desert with a van, etc?
Or I'm probably missing something fundamental here :D
Keep grinding and you'll eventually go fast forward.
Wait, are you guys there? I can't see the channel?
Weak money created weak people, strong money is creating strong people.
We'll see it more in society soon enough, gradually.
#bitcoin
Which experiments?
🇵🇹 Portugal: Decriminalized all drugs (2001). Possession = no jail, just fines/treatment. Big drop in deaths & HIV.
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Tolerates cannabis in coffeeshops. Hard drugs illegal. One of EU’s lowest cannabis use rates.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Offers heroin-assisted treatment in clinics. Reduced HIV, overdoses, and street crime.
🇩🇪 Germany: Decriminalized small cannabis possession. 2024 law allows cannabis clubs & home growing.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Small amounts of most drugs decriminalized since 2009. Still illegal to sell.
🇪🇸 Spain: Private cannabis use allowed. Cannabis clubs operate in legal gray zone. Public use banned.
But is that because of the drugs themselves or an absolute lack of systems and incentives that facilitate and promote agency, ownership and integration?
The system is absolutely broken in many ways. It has to be a multifaceted approach. Drug legalization is a piece of it. With drug legalization, millions of opportunities for more ownership would be created.
Because the real problem is ownership/agency. It's very hard to own anything, ownership has never been so expensive. You can't own anything, the rich/State have it all basically.
My point is if land was suddenly free in south America a lot of more stability and prosperity would be created. This would eventually generate better families, more opportunities, stability and peace and thus create less trauma that leads someone to despair like that in the streets of LA.
I believe more economic opportunities elsewhere mean we all benefit through competition. A lot of Americans would instantly move to South America and capitalize many places with capital, knowledge, etc, etc.
I think drug legalization in the West would reduce Cartel violence in South America very quickly.
#libertarian #politics #philosophy
I truly believe Japan's only way out is if the Japanese government/State starts buying Bitcoin.
They have liquidity, the smartest thing they could do with it right now is innovate and buy BTC.
#bitcoin #politics #economy
This is pretty crazy to think about actually.
A lot of people don't understand whats's forming. I've been thinking about this lately. We currently have Howard Lutnick as the secretary of Commerce in the US, a Trump friend, Bessent, Lummis, Eric Trump, all these people pushing for Bitcoin, some pushing for an actual reserve, others pushing for integration with the financial system (Lutnick, Cantor, XXI, etc).
The result is big capital already flowing to ETFs and the end game for me is the big bond (smart) capital preparing to move. This seems to me the most clear scenario in the near future.
Even Jamie Dimons, JP Morgan, a person that doesn't like Bitcoin, is now allowing his bank to offer Bitcoin and is saying lately "bonds will be demonetized".
I mean, how much more clear can the whole thing be? Bonds will be demonetized.
It happened in Weimar Germany. Bond holders (older people) were skeptical of stocks and were saying to stock investors (younger people), "stocks? that thing is never going to work". Result? The biggest wealth transfer of that era in Germany. Bonds got demonetized while stocks held value because they represented ownership of a company.
It's the same thing now.