The sovereign individuals aren’t shouting it out like the influencers. They’re staying humble and stacking sats.
Make America a Republic Again
“When you live your whole life within the greatest empire of your time, it is hard to believe it will end. You think it is a thing of permanence, of immutability. Its existence contested but never truly threatened.”
- The Strength of the Few by James Islington
It’s officially the Christmas season
Merry Christmas!! ✝️🎄
“Who would be so stupid as to readily enslave themselves… We knew the truth, of course. Had been subjected to a hundred lectures dissecting why people submitted to the Hierarchy. Fear, naturally, played its part—but not always. Sometimes it was greed loosely masquerading as ambition. Sometimes it was misplaced faith that others would behave fairly and rightly. Or social pressure, the inevitable belief that the majority cannot be wrong. The reasons were complex and many-faceted and unavoidably varied from person to person. But we never mentioned those during our childish vents… Easier to despise than understand. Easier to mock than empathise.”
-Vis Telimus Catenicus, The Strength of the Few by James Islington
It’s not happening I’m a vacuum. There is an attack vector that incorporates engaging the state benevolently while simultaneously there are multiple attack vectors that strike at the power of the state. If this was ALL anyone was doing you’d be right.
I have touched on the idea of entropy being our memory of a specific state and hence, our concept of time
If this were the case, it may be that space is fundamental and time is emergent. I’ve been trying to understand both sides of this concept. I need to dig into Boltzmann entropy and Shannon entropy to understand your concept better.
One thing that has been bothering me is the black hole information paradox. We’re told it’s a paradox because a black hole evaporates through Hawking radiation but the information inside the black hole is destroyed.
It may leave our universe’s ability to view it but if it is either the big bang of a new universe or erupts out of a white hole in another dimension or another point in the cosmos, then it’s not destroyed.
We should ensure the guy who’s bragging about making Tennessee the most conservative state and the most ready to push back against Federal overreach has those words spread far and wide and get people to rally behind that call.
He might move on but a movement that prioritizes digital privacy and economic sovereignty AND is in large enough numbers to swing a vote WILL get the political classes attention.
Thats how Trump won this time around. He appealed to the people who have said “ Fuck both parties”. He may not be living up to most of that, but any issue that will swing an election will get support and attention. They will have to make good on promises to keep votes.
The time’s, they are a changing
They’re going to create regulations whether we like it or not. Whoever sits down at the table with them and has the most persuasive arguments will be the ones who help draft the regulations.
I don’t know any regulations, but I’d rather have thoughtful regulations that protect privacy and freedom than have regulations that, intentionally or not, make my life less free.
We’re not going to sit on the bench and watch other teams play just because we think they’re all cheating the game. I’d rather be on the field convincing the refs to call a fair game. Or cheat the game in my favor if possible. Whatever it takes to protect my freedom and sovereignty. Hopefully if all of us greedily guard our self interest, it will become mutually supportive.
Not Bitcoin related, but time related. Just my ponderings on time from my perspective (pun intended)
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Previous generations put Earth at the center of the universe
Later, it was accepted that the planets orbited around the Sun
This changed our perspective, but still placed the Solar System at the center of it all
Later, we found out the Sun is just one of a trillion stars in the Milky Way
For a time we didn’t think there were other galaxies, just us with everything revolving around the new center
Humans have always placed themselves at the center of it all, even as we changed the name of the center
Over a century after Einstein’s revelation of relativity, we still place ourselves at center of it all in terms of mathematics
When Einstein’s equations reach infinities, we say the math “brakes down”
We’re so self-centered that we assume the math has broken rather than face the physical reality of Relativity that has proven so successful
The warping of spacetime only appears warped from our perspective. Flip around the perspective and we would appear warped
Objects appear to move so slowly toward the event horizon of a black hole that we will never actually see them enter the black hole. From their perspective, they cross the event horizon without noticing any change.
How do you squeeze an infinite amount of density into an infinitely shrinking volume? Through the dimension of time
The mass inside of a black hole is not sharing the same space at the same time. We can see this by knowing we would never see an object cross the event horizon but would see it stretch out infinitely as it approached.
Of course, from the perspective of the in-falling object we know it does cross without any dramatic affair. We will simply never live long enough to witness the incredible amount of time it would take from our perspective to see an object fall entirely in.
The math doesn’t break down, we just need to shift the decimal place of mathematics away from being self-centric. This doesn’t mean simply “zooming in” to the quantum scale. It’s a fundamental understanding of the relativistic warping of spacetime, where General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics still exist on the same relative scales. We just need to recognize that we’re not at the center of it because there is no center.
The Sovereign Individual thesis is playing out
Human and economic capital will flow to where it can be most sovereign
Tennessee is leading the way
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Great work and huge thanks to everyone you helped and participated in this event. It was a blast!!
I think this supports your thesis. The transfer of heat (mining) quantifies the passage of “time”, encoding the change in entropy on to the ledger.
https://blossom.primal.net/d37d7144d94f4466cec8098480b3052596ee3f6ca870bf48f834469905b3f0ed.mov
I understand completely. I ended up down this rabbit hole because I had a theory I was chasing (still chasing and refining as I learn more).
You’re the only one I’ve come across, then again, the Venn Diagram of Bitcoin/Physics is small right now. I hope you continue pursuing it. There are more people who are interested than you think. It La also be an avenue to bring a whole new group of people into Bitcoin.
I don’t get on SM a lot but I’d be interested in adding you to a group chat I have going. Sending a DM now
But is it conserved in time? Is time a useful construct to make sense of the world and describe a state of entropy? Mathematically, time can go forward and backward allowing us to explain the process of something, step by step, at different moments in the process (time).
Reading one book on a subject should make you realize how may things you were ignorant of before reading it.
Reading ten books on a subject should both fill in the gaps of your ignorance while making it more clear what you are truly ignorant about.
Reading one hundred books on a subject you were previously completely ignorant of should enlighten you about all the things we as a species are ignorant of.
Keep reading, thinking critically, and working towards making our ignorance marginally less.
This is meant as a White Pill. Don’t take it if you think it’s a Black Pill.
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject ... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.”
-Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, 1st Century
It is not that the government is blackmailed by criminal organizations or intelligence agencies
It is not that intelligence agencies and criminal organizations control the government
Portions of them are all the same entity and different people or groups of people are trying to control the chessboard and levers of power
But the levers of power are losing their grip on society
New power bases are being established right under their nose
While they fight for scraps of a dying carcass, the future is being built, one that will reshape the next age of humanity
Your task is not to foresee the future, but enable it.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry