One had to take time, to exercise great patience and persistence, undergo a genuine sort of labor, in order to achieve insight into what is #Bitocin, or more generally, what is real
Fiat has the structure of despair. It signals a kind of desperate neediness, the response to which tends to take the repetitive and self reinforcing form of addiction
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#Bitcoin presents itself in the form of internal bonds, connection, it shares intrinsically in the order it helps constitute. Fiat is by its very nature divisive.
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Fiat money is quite literally a zero sum game. It produces nothing, but transforms through subtraction.
#Bitcoin
The power to determine oneself is most properly actualized, not in one gratification or another, but precisely as the power to keep oneself from being determined by any particular present good.
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Money is not in itself an actual good to be enjoyed, but rather a power for endlessly deferred future enjoyment, money can be a goal of activity without implying any sinful self indulgence.
#Bitcoin
An absent good can fail to move a person, but a present pain cannot.
Welcome to the fifth epoch of #Bitcoin
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减半日是人类的节日
Is freedom essentially social or essentially political?
Is freedom self-originating?
There is no ethical alternative to universalized private ownership, which implies universalized self ownership, as all other forms of individual ownership degenerates into a ruling and ruled class
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There are only two possible ways to acquire wealth, one is by Making and one is by Taking.
— Robert Breedlove
Sovereignism vs statism
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What if the current state of world history is not progression or advancement, but progressive decivilization?
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of those or other men to make these ideologies acceptable by the majority.
Every social revolution will necessarily have to begin with just a few uncommon men: the natural elite.
These are the ones who, having good minds of their own, have further trained them by studying and learning. Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would invent it.
— La Boetie
The idea of #Bitcoin is not utopian in nature, it does not count on “new men” but on people as they are, with people who take actions out of self interest, who need to deal with scarce resources and time in they day to day lives
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