110 sats \ 3 replies \ @SoulOnChain 17 Jul 2022 \ on: FOR BITCOIN TO WIN, WE MUST BURN THE SHIPS bitcoin
Going around invading sovereign people is the opposite of what bitcoin winning will look like.
There are several historical moments that would have worked far better to compare bitcoin to than the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The kind of people who would identify with both bitcoin and the Spaniards in this story are the same kind of danger represented by someone that identifies as libertarian but also thinks the USA is the good guy in the world.
It is completely nonsensical. Bitcoin and imperial conquest are the opposite of each other. One is is a decentralized and flat anarchy of peers and the other is a centralized pyramidal hierarchy with rulers, domination, and slavery.
I think you completely missed the point.
If you commit yourself fulling to winning (by burning your backup plan if you fail), your likelihood of success increases.
Burn the ship. Board the liferaft.
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No, I understand pushing forward and not looking back in order to fully commit. We need to be careful about what historical comparisons we use.
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Fair enough. I was considering only the general concept and not the specific instance of it occurring that the article had used.
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