So people need to know what the PODCONF industrial complex is. It is a circle jerk of VCs, influencers, and industry individuals seeking to extract value from Bitcoiners while also being compliant with government officials in DC. They want you to believe this is the only way, but it is not the only way. Bitcoin is about routing around the people that own the PODCONFers.

Abe Lincoln abolished slavery in the US, but what do you call the relationship with the state where you have to pay taxes on everything, including the air your breath, and if you don't you get thrown in a cage. You have zero say in what those taxes are used for, and most of the time they are used for horrible things like throwing people in cages or bombing brown children in the middle east. You likely never voluntarily entered into this contract and were most likely born into it.

It's actually a bit offensive to hear from individuals that working with government is the path forward. Just because they have an imaginary title called "authority" does not make it appropriate for them to break natural law.

The PODCONFers will put their bags before their morals because they think the route they are taking is safer. Continuing to give thieves and war criminals more control is not the safer route. It is the more dangerous route because it ensures that their systems will continue to exist. Do we have to wait for war, mass starvation, and more lockdowns to realize, "Hmm maybe compliance was not the answer?"

It is time for the men in the room to throw away their vapes, get a pack of cigarettes in their hands, and begin using Bitcoin to subvert the state in every way possible.