There's a mad dash for data control with the nascent Ai industry promising to do more with data, and monetize it more efficiently. I've never seen competition for it like this. You can feel it. As restrictions, monitoring, and fences go up, the centralized user world controlling money and discourse keeps taking bigger steps away from bitcoin's value proposition, and that's perhaps why I'm also so bullish on NOSTR and other things, especially when marketplace clients start arriving. Let them keep displacing themselves. They'll get to where artistic expression and transacting are smothered, and when the monetary system underpinning it all can no longer expand safely...
Bitcoiners are going to become targets. Not in some dystopian violent way. But targets because of their disposable income. Targets because of their negligible debt. The world will be at our feet. But the folly of thinking the res publica are the mindless consumers they desire... Separating us from our coinage dear reader will require more. Lower your prices. Bend to our will. The advertisers will beg for a banner on a Nostr content creator's uploads. They'll build their own clients to sell their wares. The Lightning Network will work after all. Ark liquidity pools will be all the rage.
Your CBDC will have purchase voids, geo-fencing, and restrictions. It'll naturally have created a carapace (hollowing out) of its ability to be an effective store of value. No surprise, most of GDP is built on mindless consumption anyway, and this way they ensure better velocity of climate change. So the saving will have to be accomplished by corralling everyone into the killing pens of fixed income securities and stocks. Those have variable tax implications. Which brings up a related problem for the well-to-do: with a CBDC, the on and off ramps of tax havens are surveilled. Thusly, tax havens don't work anymore. Bitcoin solves this. It's called a private key, hybrid custody, or absolute power. If property can't be violated, can a political hierarchy exist? Sure, but with a lot less prestige.
We've cut the gladiator's femoral artery. No need to rush in. Let him bleed out.
Good article. Maybe the imagery is a little war like for a revolution that separates violence from money? Or maybe not? There is the whole honey badger thing.
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I don't completely disagree, but the U.S has been fighting wars "for peace" for a long time. Sometimes you just want to use those weapons.
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The US is not peaceful lmao, but that seems like an unrelated topic to me.
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the US literally still uses the war flag officially
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It's also important to distinguish between a shield and a spear too. If bitcoin is used in the way of a weapon it is a shield. Cameras are more offensive weapons than bitcoin!
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What's the honey badger thing? I've seen it around, but don't quite get the reference..
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The viral video from 12 years ago with 101m that put honey badgers on the map lol: https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg
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Thanks! I'll check this out. Actually, I watched it during my edit time. Great video, and pretty funny.
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Bitcoin has been compared to a honey badger. I know Michael Saylor uses this analogy, but I don't know who started it:
The honey badger, also known as the ratel, is a small, fierce mammal that is widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.1 They are related to skunks, otters, ferrets, and other badgers.02 Honey badgers are voracious omnivores that get their name from their fondness for feeding on honey and honeybee larvae. They also eat insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, roots, bulbs, berries, and fruits. They can adapt to a variety of conditions, from warm rain forests to cool mountains, and their home ranges can be as vast as about 193 square miles. Most honey badgers are active throughout the day, though near human settlements they may prefer the cover of darkness.
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hbdgaf!
I think alpacas also feature as a possible bitcoin animal mascot, for some other entirely different reason I'm not aware of. They are pretty chilled out animals as far as I can remember, nonchalant really. Not skittish like sheep or cows or goats. Maybe it was a colour thing?
For me the alpaca is too adjacent to the Winamp Llama. Also, Ubuntu didn't use it yet (honey badger), yet.
and yeah in case anyone forgets, the honey badger as an animal was popularised a lot in the gun/PMC/tacticool crowd. I think there has been SMGs given this moniker. Or maybe it was a carbine.
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Yes, I can see that. Imagery definitely colors it red
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Satoshi was like Luke Skywalker dropping the bomb into the little hole. The rest is inevitable. Although he didn't drop a bomb it will have that effect on the edifice of the establishment.
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