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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @harrr 20 Jan 2024 \ on: Bitcoin's origin: is this all one big NSA/CIA pet project gone awry? bitcoin
Don't care. Adolf Hitler and Stalin could have made bitcoin together, I wouldn't give a shit. All that matters is what bitcoin is.
That's like saying you don't care if influential people call bitcoin fascist money. There's a social layer around this tool that has a direct affect its utility, right?
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influential people
Please don't be a sheep, make up your own mind. Also, when you've been around bitcoin for long enough you've heard people say anything about it.
There's a social layer around this tool that has a direct affect its utility, right?
Social layer? Is bitcoin less useful because some people says it boils the oceans? Maybe, who cares, those people will pay higher prices when they finally understand bitcoin.
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Please don't be a sheep, make up your own mind.
I've made up my mind. Unfortunately, there are people who have guns (financed by millions of sheep) that don't like this thing and might decide to use those guns to prevent us from using it. Influence can turn into force quite easily. There's a reason why anarcho-capitalism hasn't exactly taken off and people are still being oppressed the world over.
Social layer?
Yes. This tool serves a social purpose. You don't send bitcoin to yourself, do you?
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there are people who have guns
Guns can't stop my transactions. That's the "censorship resistant" part. Anyway, it's your choice to live in fear or things that are out of your control, or to not give a fuck.
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The saying goes, "If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
The people who say that could not hit a nail without hitting their fingernail because they have no practical experience. Yet those people have the wisdom to judge a tool based on their perception of the users. Meanwhile they pedantically peruse the proletariat from institutions built by men with hammers. The gavel is a hammer, too! Who is judging, harnessing and trapping who?
Satoshi is the persona of Satori which gets its name from the Sanskrit word for truth. Satori is the awakening from the Zen koan. The Genesis Block is the number 7 "G" and it's the Generative principal with which the masculine and feminine come together and bear a male child that explores. This is the obelisk or the lingum or the Oracle of Delphi. Know thyself before entering.
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