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Disciplined and strong... is that what you see when you imagine the various bitcoiners you have met over the years?
- bitcoiners will continue searching
- bitcoiners will find Nietzsche and Bruckner
- 0.1% of bitcoiners will then do something
Sorry if you don't get it
Or, don't be a little bitch, and jockey to be one of the lords... idk how to tell you this, but the free escaped people are simply another flavor of the masses
The thing about people with lots of money, power, and territory is that they really don't need bitcoin. The meme of bitcoin being for the downtrodden is what has bitcoin tapped out now. The rags to riches meme doesn't work, and the people with power do not need bitcoin because they make power work for them, they do not need tools to oppose power.
Michael Saylor is not powerful. He runs an incredibly lousy SaaS company. He is within the bitcoin universe, but not broadly powerful. Nor is high status to future elites.
Bitcoin will become a tool to take powerful people and make them more powerful. It will increase inequality. When that becomes the mimetic focus, the pursuit of power and excellence, with the notion that bitcoin refines power into something less degenerate, then it will begin to catch on outside its bubble as get rich money for outsiders.
Bitcoiners have extremely little vision for projects in the world quite ironically and seem to not want to become powerful, or perhaps 100% of those who do simply have good opsec, but I doubt it.
The childish notion of libertarianism and EQUALITY is quite like communism. It assumes that a de-monopolization of violence means they are on an EQUAL footing. It is similar to the sloppy notion of mutually assured destruction and the view that 1 nuclear bomb is EQUAL to advanced nuclear capacity. To think access to certain capacities for violence equalizes is not too far off from thinking 1 bitcoin is about the same as 1 ethereum. Even if you imagine a perfectly liquid market for violence, it could end up being like being able to buy lots of quadcopters that are geographically limited by physics. You want the power of many ants? Anyway, the typical bitcoiner has no interest in power, they at best imagine a world where they become the new nobility, but rarely ever shape the world today.
The bitcoiner libertarian in fact is the biggest dependent on the Government State there is, yes, far more than an immigrant on welfare who has 100% of his life subsidized. It is true. The immigrant cut off would go about his life. The Bitcoiner, on the other hand, well, if the State one morning ceased to exist, wouldn't the Bitcoiner all of a sudden cease to exist too?
The thing about power is it's actually not too difficult to get near people around the top, if you are actually doing interesting things beyond the money itself, which is not the thing itself. If bitcoin were to catch on among a subset of elites, given its supply shock driven price movements, one might expect the market cap to be higher. Perhaps we will see a trickle in over the next several years as and if war ramps up. It's funny, it seems war might be the only thing that stirs the powerful. One might wonder, if bitcoiners are such geniuses, we don't they get into the military industrial complex? If they don't like the petro-dollar why don't they build the econo-bitcoin rather than gleefully escaping life in decadent fashion.
That people threw a fit at my original post does not mean I wrote it well. See, unlike the bitcoiner, I will not be so quick to congratulate myself every turn. That having zero reactionary replies would meant I wrote poorly does not imply any reaction means I have excelled in the objective. I must keep going, you see? I am not to be a lone voice, nor do I wish to own any sort of movement, it will be sort of fractal in nature... the refinement of the Bitcoiner, shall precede the refinement and restoration of the world.
Fair enough. This post was sloppy, and my inspiration of men in other domains are in many ways easier. As with many things in bitcoin, resistance to change is expected, and I do not expect much from a single post. I have my work cut out for me.
Have read a bit of Mircea, and am younger than most bitcoiners so wasn't around back then, but it does feel like something was lost. Pure wrath rarely provides direction, and I am not interested in wrath maxing.
I am curious though, what might a more refined "2nd coming of Mircea" look like?
Bitcoiners are so proud of their sloth, a guy with a shit tier software company who got in only in 2020 is close to owning a million coins in his company 🤣
It seems if anything, I am triggering everyone here with the suggestion that people may wish to be less sloppy with their thinking and language. Zero obligation to do so. :)
Can one truly understand anything without having a sense of all things? For do things exist, in and of themselves? If bitcoin existed in and of itself, it could be forked, and there would be no difference, but you understand that there is a difference, so you understand something of what the world is.
Well, why don't you just read the original Luhmann instead of some sloppy words I put together as I was falling asleep?
You think bitcoin is about circlejerking and repeating mantras incestuously?
You ever use bitcoin to fund a foreign space & missile company, or is posting memes in a certain style the pre-requisite to "being a bitcoiner"?
But yes, you got me, for of course, it would be absurd to suggest "I" even exist, so how could "I" "be a bitcoiner."
Identities are for those who have a will against being operators. What is the identity element of a mathematical field? -- the thing which when it multiplies every other element leaves it unchanged.
Quite right, there is no rush, and there is no rush for me to write well and inspire either. Things will shift in their own time, but the resources needed are in the styles of thinking, not in "guides" and such.
Better it be done poorly than not at all.
The best thing bitcoiners have come up with... a few million in funding to make things like this website?
It would seem bitcoiners love the fiat world, so long as they have purchasing power in it, a rather healthy disposition I might add.
You have no idea what is bitcoiner.
One of my favorite features about bitcoin is that as long as one follows the rules of bitcoin, one can continue using it without any issues, irrespective of any foolish opinion one may hold.
Fix the money, fix the world is obviously such a faggy slogan.
Think about it; you really need someone else to do the thinking here for you?
They're great, I immediately turn them into bitcoin. It's called a liquid market. Enjoy being a hippy in it for the "community" and vibes!
And learn the difference between an and and an or logical operator before misquoting me, as well as the difference between a faggot and a homosexual. Peak autism, shallow understanding
You never saw its value- so you are a loser.
Wrong, I saw it's value, did quite well with it. I just was never interested in it to escape life and retire. Also did plenty of travel, still traveling.
It seems a lot of bitcoiners are people who never would have made much money without bitcoin.
Who said anything about waking up sheep? You are the sheep because you think will to truth is valuable rather than will to power.
I have actually accelerated certain things in the world with bitcoin, but what are these projects that bitcoin has supposedly enabled?
Allowed by who?
Bitcoiners are "sovereign" "individuals" until interrogated, at which point they often reveal their immense desire to be ruled by a State so powerful, for all intents and purpose, with the enforcement of moral codes, why not call it God? 🫢