Yep, yep aaaaand yep.

Make sense yet? Lol

As developed nations continue to enter sovereign debt crises akin to the 1940s, there are a few main outcomes.

Option 1) In a world without bitcoin, or if bitcoin fails, central banks and their governments recapitalize themselves with gold, devalue the people, and do another cycle of this inflationary policy for the next few generations. The Treasury/Fed handbook literally has a written option for this, although it is stated more opaquely. It can be done in the US (and probably many other countries) based on current laws if shit hits the fan. Denmark's central bank and China's economic ministers have also written similar things regarding extreme outcomes. It's pretty straightforward based on the past.

Option 2) We go into a centralized technocratic future. Centralized AI and CBDCs win. People have cuck money that the AI+government control. It's like Brave New World, 1984, take your pick. Hard to say, but not free.

Option 3) Open source money wins. Bitcoin and its ecosystem win. Governments get defunded from their fiat printers, and have to be more honest with their ledgers or default and get reconstructed since they can't print what their people hold as savings, or in the hegemon's case, can't print what the world holds. Probably a world of chaos for a time during the transition, but also an opportunity for peace and building the next era. Keeping track of the nukes would probably be a big deal, like when the Soviet Union fell. It's actually kind of remarkable that they collapsed economically and politically but in an orderly enough way to keep track of and secure most of the nukes.

I don't know which one will win, but I consider Option 3 to be the honorable method; the path of transparency. That's the one I am rooting for and building for.

If I fail, I would like it written that it's the method I tried for, but realistically the AI+government will probably delete most of the records of all of the failures anyway, since that is how history works, without any sort of objective truth keeper. Our best hope is to hide records in a distributed way and hope they can remain undisturbed for a while. At least bitcoiners have a tendency to write stuff in steel and make low time preference things. Some psychopath will hopefully carve a life work in steel in a cave or something, but who knows, lol.

And ironically, if Option 3 wins, any of the losing factions could still insert their ideas and paths into the Bitcoin blockchain, now or in the future. It's the most immutable database that we know how to build, and would preserve their ideas as it does our ideas. Like, you know what? I *want* the Communist Manifesto to be in the immutable Bitcoin blockchain, because I want people in the future to know how *bad* it is. It might already be in there; I don't know. I wouldn't want people centuries from now to think about those ideas and believe they came up with something new; I want to preserve my enemies' texts because I believe I can win through markets, force, virtue, and truth.

I think that's almost always what determines the winning side. Losers want to burn their enemies' texts to ensure that their good ideas don't spread too much. Winners want to preserve their enemies' texts to ensure that their bad ideas are never repeated.

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I just had a conversation with my wife about how negative and awful most of the internet and social media have become. Interactions are driven toward conflict and cruelty, or are just people stroking their own egos and vanity. It’s happening with kids and adults alike, and in fact a lot of the behavior exhibited by adults is just another form of playground bullying and high school popularity contests.

But somehow, in this free and open place where nobody can be censored or banned, we’re not just nicer to each other, but we celebrate each others’ differences. Sure, we poke fun and troll, but we do it out of love, not malice. We also make fun of ourselves, because, let’s face it, none of us are as dumb as all of us. Is it perfect? Nope. But it’s what we need most right now, and it could not have come along at a better time.

It’s a beautiful mess, and it works.

Good night. 💜🫂🤙

you remind me of when i was like 10 years old and my friend's younger brother was 7 and we were watching TV and the news was like " there is not enough money to do this " etc. and the 7 year old was like " the government should give everybody money ! " and i thought to myself - how is it possible to be this stupid ?

that's how i am feeling right now all over again. it's disheartening to say the least, and i'm tired.

hopefully one of these days i will find the energy to respond.

6 yo eats 3 meals in a row.

I’m afraid of his teen years 😱

that just proves my point. some countries base it on age and others on marriage status. NOT ONE country actually bases it on physiological puberty. because it's all about maintaining a particular social order, whereas the needs of an individual are not considered at all. just like nobody asks little boys if they want to be circumcised or not.

the term "Minor Attracted Person" doesn't solve the issues raised by the term "Pedophile"

"Pedo" refers to children. a human being transitions from being a child to being an adolescent between the ages of 9 and 13 or so. yet doesn't legally become an "adult" until 18.

So what if you want to fuck a 15 year old ? are you a pedophile ? Biologically no, but legally yes.

a "Minor" ( as opposed to a "child" ) is a person under the age of 18 ... the problem is a 5 year old is also under the age of 18 and also a "minor" while simultaneously being a child.

we need terminology that clearly differentiates between Children, Adolescents and Adults. the terminology currently in use, both "Pedophile" and "Minor Attracted Person" fails to do that.

the terminology we need would be something like "Adolescent Attracted Person"

all these Anime Lolis everybody jerks off to are adolescents, probably about 13-15 for the most part.

why is it morally OK to fuck a 13 year old but not a 6 year old ? because 13 year olds enjoy sex while 6 year olds do not. it's the puberty stupid.

when a girl has her first period and a boy has his first ejaculation they become an adolescent and morally OKAY to fuck. but not legally though.

it is not up to me to change the laws, but the least we can do is at least develop language that accurately reflects reality, which is something we don't currently have.

“#Bitcoin is going to win.

It's going to win for a very simple reason.

It's not going to win because it's better.

It's not going to win because the banking system is run by gangsters.

It's not going to win because the banking system has spent the last 60 years delivering ONLY two consumer innovations

ATMs and Credit Cards

Then spent the rest of the time trying to fleece you.

The reason it wins is that it allows innovation to flourish.

Every single financial system in the world has a security and trust model that requires excluding bad actors.

Developers can't connect to the VISA network and programme it because doing so would endanger the security of the network.

Developers can't connect to SWIFT because doing so would endanger the security of that network.

All of these networks are designed to be closed because their primary security relies on access control.

Very carefully vetting every single person who has access and touches the code.

Because if they let one bad actor into the heart of the system, that security is gone.

That one bad actor can takeover and do whatever they want.

Ofcourse, in 2008 we discovered that the bad actors owned the banks.

Bitcoin is different.

The reason it's different is not because we've suddenly found the most honest people in the world.

Bitcoin is different because their are plenty of bad actors and the network gets attacked all of the time.

It doesn't depend on access control to remain secure.

It depends on a simple mathematical formula of incentives and rewards.

In order to participate and secure the network as a miner, you have to use alot of computing power and spend alot of electricity.

If you win that competition, you get bitcoin as a reward.

That simple equation creates a system of incentives where its far better to play with the rules than against them.

It's game theory.

Bitcoin is a completely open network.

Anyone can connect to it.

You can write an application right now, connect to the bitcoin network and teach it something new.

You can write a new financial instrument.

When you do so, you don't have to identify yourself to the network, you don't have to get permission from anyone..

You don't have to be vetted.

You don't have to be secured.

The network doesn't fear you because it's security doesn't depend on keeping bad actors out.

Bitcoin works fine with plenty of bad actors right in the core of the system because their is no core of the system.

There is no center.

It's a completely decentralised system.”Sean McNamara via Linkedin

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I found out about #btc pre-pizza day. I think it was still 2009 could’ve been early 2010. It was in San Francisco at a sushi restaurant on Church St. One guy mentioned bitcoin. Then another guy got really excited he knew what it was and I think a 3rd guy might have also known what it was before the dinner. I recall them saying it was the first time any of them had met someone in person who knew about bitcoin. It was a large group of people maybe 20ish people. I happened to sit across from them. I love when people are curious and excited about a topic. So I naturally asked questions and they were like let’s tell her all about it. I remember they were still trying to figure how they could spend it. A guy did offer if I covered the cost of their meal in fiat they would pay me in bitcoin. (If I had been less broke, maybe pizza day would’ve been sushi day.) I can only remember one person for sure who was there. She can’t remember who those guys were any better than I can. It would be interesting to me if I could somehow figure it out. So if this sounds familiar to any early bitcoiners, let me know. If you know any early bitcoiners you want to pass this along to I would appreciate it. 🧡

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