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The Commoner
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Just a dork that knows how to get in trouble LIFE = BITCOIN LIBERTY = NOSTR JUSTICE = PROOF OF WORK

MOST PEOPLE - EVEN WHEN THEY ARE TOLD - CANT HELP BUT VIEW BITCOIN FROM THE SYSTEMS OF FIAT…. THEN EVEN AFTER THEY SEE THE DIFFERENCE…THEY KEEP FALLING BACK INTO THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM AND MEASURE BITCOIN FROM THOSE TRADITIONAL FIAT SYSTEMS…

THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENTIATION!

Replying to Avatar Nick Anthony

Secretary Scott Bessent is building a legacy of financial surveillance and control. The announcement that he is stopping Americans from sending their money abroad and increasing surveillance under the Bank Secrecy Act should be condemned.

Yet, it should be no surprise. https://blossom.primal.net/e23d7989b86e04fcd3c8037999595811678e6845f3cf4a8d1dd82a21c5027843.mp4

Yet, it should be no surprise. It was only just last year that Secretary Bessent increased financial surveillance to target transactions as little as $200. After being sued for this violation of fundamental freedoms, he responded by expanding surveillance to cover even more Americans.

This playbook has been used time after time. When the Bank Secrecy Act was first passed, Congress claimed Americans were hiding money in Swiss bank accounts. Then it was expanded to fight the war on drugs. Then it was expanded again for the war on terror. Now it seems it’s the war on fraud.

Fighting crime is a worthy endeavor. However, we cannot sacrifice the freedoms that make America great in the process.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR….

THE OLD ADAGE OF “GIVE AN INCH - TAKE A MILE” COMES TO MIND :)

NOT LONG AGO I WAS DEBATING SOME AI ABOUT WHY IT SAID WEEDS ARE BAD -

IMHO - MANY PLANTS LABELED WEEDS ARE SIMPLY VERY VERY GOOD AT PROLIFERATING AND HAVE EVOLVED METHODS WHICH HELP ENSURE THEIR PROLIFERATION OVER TIME! WE SHOULD BE STUDYING THEM AND LEARNING FROM THEM.

LIFE IS SO WIERD…

WATCHING A STUPID AD FOR SOME TAX FILING COMPANY…

AND I AM SITTING HERE THINKING HOW MIND-FUCKED IT IS THAT THEY ARE DEPICTING HAPPY PEOPLE PAYING TAXES AND GETTING “REFUNDS” …. WHEN IN REALITY THEY ARE SIMPLY GIVING YOU BACK PART OF WHAT THEY ARE STEALING FROM YOU AND….AND….YHEY ARE JUST GOING TO PRINT MORE OF AND DEBASE ON YOU….THEY MAKE YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING GOOD BY GETTING A “REFUND” - SUCH A FUCKING SCAM

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WHAT A FUCKING TIMELINE WE LIVE IN

Not yelling - I find all caps to be more clearly read when one eliminates the bias toward caps being yelling :)

I WONDER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS THOUGHT OF MINE?

I AM THINKING ABOUT HOW MANY IF NOT ALL…BITCOINERS SEEM TO LIKE TO DISCUSS BITCOIN AS IT RELATES TO THE MONETARY SYSTEM….AS IN TALK ABOUT IT AS HAVING QUALITIES SUCH AS FUNGIBILITY AND ITS SCARCITY OR ITS IMMUTABILITY WHICH ALL RELATE TO OUR CURRENTLY DOMINANT “FIAT” MONETARY SYSTEM….

AND I GET WHY - BECAUSE THE FIAT MONETARY SYSTEM IS THE ONE THAT TOUCHES EVERY HUMAN ON THE PLANET (EXCEPTING SOME FEW HUMANS OPERATING OUTSIDE OF IT-THOUGH BITCOIN IS CHANGING THIS)…

BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO INCLUDED BITCOINS IMPACT ON OTHER SYSTEMS…

THINK…. THE SYSTEMS OF LANGUAGE, SIGHT, SMELL AND TOUCH….

LIKE I BELIEVE BITCOIN HELPS US ALIGN BETTER WITH THE SIGNALS WE ARE INTERPRETING THROUGH THESE SENSE SYSTEMS AS WELL?

I MEAN… I FEEL AS THOUGH WE COULD DISCUSS HOW BITCOIN HELPS ALIGN US WITH THE SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT CAN MEAN TO BE HUMAN..LIKE WE “HUMANS” SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER IN A FREE, OPEN, DECENTRALIZED MANNER WITH NO INTERMEDIARY ANYTIME WE WANT… WHETHER THAT IS COMMUNCATING/EXCHANGING MONETARY VALUE, VISUAL VALUE, WRITTEN VALUE, ODIFEROUS VALUE….YOU NAME THE SYSTEM AND BITCOIN HELPS ALIGN THAT WITH THOSE ITEMS THAT ARE TRULY THE MOST VALUABLE AS SHOWN THROUGH ITS NETWORK EFFECT….

I KIND OF THINK THESE ARE CONVERSATIONS WE ARE MISSING OUT ON….

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10:35 - 10:44

“I WOULD LIKE YOU TO THINK OF A PROBLEM THAT YOU SEE IN THE WORLD, INDIVIDUALLY THAT YOU SEE IN THE WORLD…THAT COULD BE SOLVED BY MANIPULATING MORE MONEY? ANY? PROBABLY NOT A ONE, EVERY PROBLEM GETS WORSE.”

THAT INSIGHT, THAT IS AN OBJECTIVE TRUTH - THAT IS EVIDENT BY EVERY HUMAN ON THE PLANET

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SO IF THAT IS AN ACCURATE PREMISE…THEN DOES IT NOT STAND TO INFER THAT THOSE SEEKING TO MANIPULATE BITCOIN AS MONEY TO THEIR OWN BENEFIT - STAND TO FAIL IN THEIR ENDEAVOR?

I WOULD ARGUE THAT YES - THIS IS THE CASE AND THAT AS THIS NEW BITCOIN WORLD PLAYS OUT OVER TIME THAT IT WILL BE THOSE WHO HELP ENSURE BITCOIN IS USED BY THE MOST-THAT ALSO STAND TO BE THE MOST POSITIVELY IMPACTFUL TO THE WORLD….

AS HORACE MANN SAID “ BE ASHAMED TO DIE UNTIL YOU HAVE WON SOME VICTORY FOR HUMANITY!”

https://youtu.be/KwXO8soh1wM

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“BITCOIN COMPANIES” THAT ARE VALUING THEMSELVES USING A FIAT VALUATION ARE REALLY DOING THEMSELVES A DISSERVICE.

THAT IS TO SAY…

IF WE ARE TRULY SEEING AND VALUING BITCOIN AS THE FIRST AND ONLY GLOBAL FREE MARKET NETWORK CAPABLE OF EXCHANGING VALUE ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME…IT STANDS TO REASON THAT VALUING ANYTHING IN THE OLD FIAT TERMS IS SIMPLY NOT OBJECTIVE REALITY…

IF THAT IS INDEED THE CASE…

(AND IN MY MIND IT IS)

IT SEEMS THEN THAT TALKING ABOUT COMPANIES, OR DOING DUE DILIGENCE ON COMPANIES AND USING THE CAGR IN FIAT TERMS AS A METRIC OF ONES EVALUATION… IN SO MUCH THAT YOU ARE USING FIAT, WHICH IS PERPETUATING ITS EXISTENCE?

I THINK THAT SYSTEM OF VALUATION HAS TO BE TWEAKED AND VIEWED IN STRICTLY BITCOIN RETURN AND MAYBE ADDING THE BUSINESSES ABILITY TO OPERATE IN A WAY THAT IS DEMONETIZES THE MOST FIAT IN A SUSTAINABLE, PERSISTENT, ORGANIZED MANNER?

I not sure I fully understand the question? They would have to pay in Bitcoin…when they bought wouldn’t really matter?

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SEEING YOU WERE ON THIS CALL :)

ANSWER ME THIS…WITH STRATEGIES BUSINESS MODEL IN MIND…

WHAT IS STOPING SOMEONE FROM COPYING THIS STRATEGY AND RUNNING IT AS A NON-PROFIT REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT COMPANY THAT SIMPLY PAYS OF THE DEBT OF THE REAL ESTATE AND CONSISTENTLY LOWERS RENT TOWARDS ZERO?? TALK ABOUT BEING THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER LANDLORD IN THE LAND?

SO IF I HAVE MY PHYSICS STRAIGHT…

THE REASON NO TERRI SNOWFLAKES ARE THE SAME IS NOT SIMPLY BECAUSE THE PATH, TEMPERATURE, VOLUME ETC… FLUCTUATE THROUGHOUT ITS FORMATION….

BUT RATHER IT HAS MORE TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT WHEN WE MEASURE AN ATOM THE PARTICLES THAT WE ARE MEASURING ARE FOUND WHERE WE EXPECT THEM….

WHICH IS DIRECTLY CORRELATED TO OR MEASUREMENT DEVICE…

WHICH IN OTHER WORDS IS LIKE SAYING THE TEMPERATURE, PATH, VOLUME ETC… ARE MEASUREMENT DEVICES WHICH HAVE INFINITE PARAMETERS….

DOESN’T THAT JUST MAKE SENSE???

NO TERRI SNOWFLAKES ARE THE SAME IN OUR VERSION OF REALITY USING OR CURRENT BEST MEASUREMENT TOOLS….

AND AS WE GET BETTER TOOLS WE WILL UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF OUR REALITIES WITH EVER GREATER CLARITY

I MEAN NOW I IMAGINE THAT -MUCH LIKE BRIAN GREENE’S THEORY DESCRIBING THE FEATURES OF BLACK HOLES - BITCOIN THE NETWORK WHICH OPERATES MUCH LIKE A …BIOLOGICAL VIRUS… WOULD NEED THIS CONTINUOUS ENERGY SOURCE TO GROW AND PROPAGATE TO INFINITY-WHICH IS EXACTLY HOW BIOLOGICAL VIRUSES GROW/EVOLVE OR KILL THEMSELVES OFF

WE HAVE BEEN KILLING OURSELVES PRETTY WELL IN THE FIAT WORLD AND NOW WE ARE GOING LIVE IN ABUNDANCE - LIVING AND THRIVING AND GROWING THIS NETWORK AND THERE IS NO STOPPING THIS TRAIN…THE LynAlden TRAIN HOWEVER , COULD SLOW TO A STOP…

I AM BELIEVING MORE AND MORE THAT BITCOIN AROUND AT JUST THE TIME IT WAS NEEDED, AND IT HAS CHARACTERISTICS OF A SINGULARITY - AND IF NOT THAT IT IS THE ONLY ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF VALUE CREATION AND/OR COMMUNICATION KNOWN TO MANKIND. THIS SIMPLE TRANSFORMATION ONTO/INTO THIS NEW GLOBAL NETWORK VIRTUALLY UNSTOPPABLE.

I cannot argue with you at all…the beauty of running this as a legit non-profit is that as the non-profit stacks SATS it doesn’t need to play the FIAT games and continually refinance the debt on the property. Which means it can limit rent increases to match increases in taxes and insurance and operating costs. Which means it likely keeps rents flat or going down over time (in both FIAT AND SATS).

I’m telling you this changes the business completely…

Plus - with accepting rent increases SATS - and as SATS continue becoming more valuable it keeps pushing the rent towards zero or at least the utility value of the building