Ten years ago, on the eave of what promised to be a global economic collapse, an anonymous individual or group of individuals unleashed unto the world a new technology. Bitcoin was about freeing the world from the kleptocrats that control global wealth. These "stewards" of the global economy had utlimate control of the money supply, and they'd managed to fuck it up so badly that the world was bracing itself for a depression to rival the collapse of the late 1920s. Bitcoin promised a new way; an elegant system built on computer science and sound economics - a system inherently free of government, ideology, oligarchical control - a system built on transparency and immutability. Bitcoin was about wresting power back from the very real agents of socioeconomic oppression. It wasn't just peer to peer electronic cash, it was a revolution writ in code and voluntarist theory.
Ten years later, what the populace calls "Bitcoin" is nothing more then another speculative asset for the wealthy. We learned nothing from the economic downturn that birthed Bitcoin because we trusted the stewards to pull us back from the brink. Instead of solving problems, all they did was print money - money that was and is meaningless and represents no actual value. And in the interim, "Bitcoin" has been coopted by an army of bleating hogs who now conveniently ignore it's original purpose, call it a store of value, and go to bed hodling and dreaming of overnight riches that they will realize in meaningless, endlessly printable fiat money. How has this happened? Because the billionaire class made sure it would happen. Satoshi's elegant system had one flaw - namely, it was always reliant on adoption by people; people who are gullible, greedy, quick to emotion, and generally imperfect economic entities. As long as the "stewards" control the means of communication, they control what "Bitcoin" is.
Now think about what we've seen over the just the past few weeks. Those who champion "Bitcoin" as they've come to know it are hanging all their hopes on a fundamentally untested second layer "solution" that throws away all of the economics of Satoshi's system. The developers of said "solution" freely admit that it's not ready for prime time, but the hogs won't hear it. Instead, they prop up "thought leaders" such as Jack Dorsey - a man who has made a fortune over the last decade by shaping public discourse. Jack is literally a billionaire who controls a major means of censorable communication and he's using his bully pulpit to tell everyone who will listen to buy " Bitcoin." Meanwhile, the next economic storm is brewing. Disenfranchised people all over the world feel the crushing weight of poverty, usury, and the state - and they have no control over the meager wealth that they possess. Don't trust the "stewards," they will not save you. They continue to march the world towards inescapable environmental and economic catastrophy, and they're doing it by hijacking your brains and your wallets with a diabolical Chinese water torture dopamine drip. Jack will not save you, Trump will not save you, but Bitcoin might save you, or at least slow down your demise.
Make no mistake, if there's any hope for the planet, it starts with Bitcoin, and if there's any hope for Bitcoin, it starts with you - take it back from them.
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