An anarcho-capitalist world is inevitable. Technology is giving us the privacy and freedom to become truly ungovernable. The means to enforce legislation, as we know it today, will get so difficult and costly that it will cease to exist. Instead, society will be shaped by social norms unique to each region, which like society was in the past - a local culture. We’re only in the first innings, but it’s thrilling to watch these tools develop in real time. This future isn’t just possible—it’s unstoppable. Nostr and Lightning are two huge steps towards this.
Don’t let others cloud your judgement, the future is bright.
Watching a Twitch stream for the first time and it feels like the product of a society whose time-preference has been erased. The real-time chat scrolling like a slot machine, the dopamine hit you get from waiting for something 'exciting' to happen - it's a casino experience, but for all the wrong reasons.
The only redeeming quality I can see is the lack of script, giving us an authentic experience that you cannot get elsewhere. But how long will that last? People are already starting to codify it....
'Live' definitely has value but I cannot help but think that what is on Twitch today will be another one of those things people look back on in 100 years and wonder: what was society thinking?
The big takeaway from this election? People crave authenticity.
Conventional politicians will continue to lose support and get exposed given their inherent lack of the trait.
There'll be a day when the story of Satoshi will sound like a legend and no one will believe it. I'm grateful to have lived through it.
"Nobody asked for him to appear, or to provide any help. Nobody knew he existed. Nobody knows his true identity.
Yet, out of nowhere, he shows up. And, he brings with him an invention, which he calls Bitcoin...
...For a couple of years, the mysterious Satoshi maintains the system, evangelizes the idea, and finds volunteers to run and tweak it alongside him. And then - poof - quietly, he simply disappears. It's an exit with no fanfare, not even an announcement. He merely leaves, eventually sending a final email to one developer saying he has moved on to other things, and that Bitcoin is in good hands. He is never heard from again." - Tomer Strolight
Let's stop putting prominent figures on a pedestal as "savours." Everyone ultimately acts in their own self-interest. In the Bitcoin space, the only person whose interests were fully aligned with Bitcoin was Satoshi. For everyone else, Bitcoin is just a tool - a means to an end. If a better tool comes along, don't be surprised if they swap it out in a heartbeat.
'DYOR' and #DontTrustVerify aren't just memes, they're a mindset to live by. Apply it to everything, not just Bitcoin. People are people, don't expect anything else.
If you strip away the political theatre, both sides of the aisle act the same once in power. The 'end of the world' narrative each election is just marketing to keep you hooked. Opt out with Bitcoin, store your wealth in cyberspace and see the foolishness of central governing for yourself.
There is no right and left. There exists only the state and you.
#GraduallythenSuddenly
But what is a person’s “reputation”? What is this thing which may not be “taken lightly”? Clearly, it is not a possession which may be said to belong to him in the way, for example, his clothes do. In fact, a person’s reputation does not “belong” to him at all. A person’s reputation is what other people think of him; it consists of the thoughts which other people have.
A man does not own his reputation any more than he owns the thoughts of others - because that is all his reputation consists of. A man’s reputation cannot be stolen from him any more than can the thoughts of other people be stolen from him.
- Walter Block, Defending the Undefendable
If you don’t have fun along the way, then what’s the point. Learn to enjoy the journey and the results will take care of themselves
Success is the best response
You’ll understand #Bitcoin only once you accept that someone with opposing views will benefit and there’s nothing you or anyone can do to stop it.
Focus on yourself. Become adaptable. Provide value to others.
The deeper you go down the rabbit hole, the more you realise everything is just an ego test.
Accept your limitations; accept what you can’t control; accept people with opposing beliefs will win; accept things won’t go to plan; create the life you want.