A lot of people seem to have trouble comprehending that you can be highly critical of the government AND appreciate the historical significance of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Executive Order…
“OH SO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO HOLD BITCOIN??”
It’s not about *want* — it’s just reality.
SBR creation was the inevitable result of Bitcoin’s success. If Bitcoin was NOT winning, there would be no nation-state adoption.
Since Bitcoin IS winning, nation-state bitcoin adoption is inevitable.
I know, winning feels weird. You better get used to it.
You were right about Bitcoin, and all your friends, the media, and Elizabeth Warren were wrong. The most powerful nation on the planet just confirmed what you’ve been ranting about for years.
Bitcoin is money for enemies. Deal with it.
Every individual, company, and country will naturally try to accumulate as many possible units as they can of the only verifiably finite asset on the planet.
“BUT I DONT WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO OWN BITCOIN!!”
Too bad. Bitcoin doesn’t care.
“BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SEPARATION OF MONEY AND STATE?!”
Bitcoin *already* separated money and state; it separated the CREATION of money from state.
“WE SHOULD STOP THE GOVERNMENT FROM HOLDING BITCOIN!”
It’s impossible to stop the state, or anyone, from holding Bitcoin, because Bitcoin doesn’t care who you are and can’t discriminate. The same rules apply to everyone.
That’s kind of the whole point.
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Excellent clarity.
All governments suck AND Bitcoin is winning.
GM. Have a creative, productive, and satisfying day - in peace.
GN all good people. May we awaken to a morning in which tyrants and their facilitators become one with the soil and the shadows of their passing linger no longer than a single exhaled breath.
I’ve read 2600 erratically since the early ‘90s and rank it among the top publications of a wide variety of reading material I consumed over a few decades. I’d love to see 2600 regularly on Nostr!
The most obvious “budget neutral” methods are fraudulent criminal prosecution with conviction and worse, civil asset forfeiture without prosecution or recourse for the victim - except of course evasion or effective use of a strategic steel, brass, and lead reserve (to “trump” a government five dollar wrench attack).
Delegate that decision to my (big) dog.
But leaving the ambiguous possibility that their “knowing” has some important gaps.
Yes, exactly! 🙂
“That’s what they think.”
There are for sure. But unfortunately, there are also some who are drinking a bit too much Kool-Aid a bit too often.
I don’t trust any of them.
Sorry - good point. When government refers to oversight, it implies protection of people - users of a service, customers, etc. But oversight often devolves into control unrelated to actual safety or protection but rather into fines, penalties, costs of legal compliance, and potentially the favoring of one company or group of people over another in what could more fairly and efficiently be done without government oversight. So, who determines the wisdom, skill, or integrity of the overseers (or the watchers). Who will watch the watchers (overseers) to prevent their abuse of power?
I hodl also. Watching & learning how the governments of the world fuck their subjects and alternative ways to end them (the government fuckers that is).
I think only dead politicians qualify to appear on U.S. fiat currency.