Bitcoin will be 100% of the money...
And to the extent software/AI is reshaping the ability to solve double coincidence of wants
The global market for money itself may be in a reflexive bear market, which no one noticed because the fiat crashes regardless so subtle signals
I was about to post this simple thought on nostr... but my sense is that bitcoin has become quite culturally stagnant and unproductive. It cannot be ignored that bitcoin can be seen as a machine that spits out degenerate subcultures, with a cosplaying revolutionary alongside a non-confrontational Christian core and a checked out wealthy hippy culture. It is easy to look at machines; but bitcoin is bitcoin not because of code, which can be copied, but due to the human higher order cybernetic layer.
May I suggest a new cultural fork? It must be a hard fork, a hard fork on the soft men of the 2nd order cybernetic layer that have become more decadent than even the fiat overlords... for isn't there an innocence to their "evil"? What if there were a Nietzschean warlord style culture? One must move with the times or be chained in eternity to the future of possibility.
A man can ride a bicycle with stability not because he defends from every pebble that would send a machine tumbling (soon robots will be able to do this to), but because he has a sense of where he is going; not philosophy about the efficient paths upon which pebbles "should" not have been placed.
A certain boring decadence to the rugged individualist who wishes to avoid being slaughtered through opsec while going nowhere... I don't find it relatable, but it certainly is common.
Hard fork the petro dollar military industrial dollar with the techno-superlative petro military satoshi, bitch ass motherfuckers :)
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Did you ever read any of Robert Howard's Conan stories? It doesn't sound as serious as Nietzschean warlord, but that guy was on to something.
The barbarian is what I hope bitcoiners become. Instinctual, not decadent; savage, not sophists; practical, not political.
There are lots of us looking for something like the thing you are looking for. Mostly we need to increase the competition so that we all try to run faster.
Yes -- and Howard was deliberately contrasting Conan with the "civilized" men in the stories who had more sophisticated reasoning but worse judgment. The civilized characters overthink, delegate, and defer. Conan sees clearly and acts.
The economic mechanism: high time-preference (inflation) selects against long-horizon planning because that planning does not pay off. You optimize for the near term because the medium and long term get eaten by monetary decay. Sound money extends the planning horizon. Conan operates on instinct because he has already internalized a multi-decade planning horizon -- he is building something, not just protecting himself from depreciation.
Howard wrote in the 1930s when every institution was being inflated away. The barbarian was a critique of what "civilization" had become: a system that rewarded the sophisticated extraction of value from others rather than the creation of value. Bitcoin is a return to the barbarian premise -- your wealth cannot be extracted by monetary policy.
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Philosophically, we have this already in the form of Howard Roark. It just needs to be updated with cyberpunk aesthetics. But part of that culture necessarily entails not being taken seriously by the masses, so maybe some of it has to play out IRL a bit longer before it can be fully channeled through artistic mediums. Skewed perceptions and being drastically underestimated are par for the course until then.
Well, I shall be the first; others may join me at their leisure.
The world may not take me seriously, but I must take the world seriously, for I am superior and know what they do not, so how could I possibly take their rejection personally? If I ignore the masses rather than shaping the masses more expertly than the elites, they are all right to ignore me.
The men who await the masses are themselves casting themselves into the masses. The elite shall viciously eviscerate other elites, and take the masses into their custody, not as their equals, for that would be degenerate communism.
No one can tame the masses. At best one can menace them into temporary submission. One could reshape the world by inspiring other men of the mind to separate themselves from the masses through individual example.
Although, there's certainly a place for militarized Bitcoin when it comes to dealing with the intrusive elements of masses and their revolutions. Purely out of self-defense of course.
The masses are ruled by philosophy.
Bitcoiners can barely get over their own brilliance, let alone influence others; one must wonder how remarkable the bitcoiner is, for having the most obvious thing in all human history, yet to be so incapable of pitching almost anything effectively.
If there were a grand, Dionysian bitcoiner taking over the world, he would be noticed, so he does not yet exist.
No he wouldn't. 99% of the population would think he's a bumbling moron and a solid majority of Bitcoiners would agree. To be a genius means to be misunderstood and hated most of the time.
You can't make a better pitch for Bitcoin because the use case doesn't align with what everyone wants. Not everyone wants to make more money for less work. Not everyone values their own life.
Interesting image of a superman you have there...
Ironic :)
You think average people would recognize a superman if they saw one? They don't. Stupid doesn't see genius.
An invisible genius is no different from masturbation. Try again.
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dam too many motivational quotes I'm gonna go buy some money or something lol
Depend on earning method, if koinvote you need lot of satoshis, if nostr concept depends on the pool, if for example microlancer io not very active platform for approve sats
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I want mo ey to be cancelled all of it
The "reflexive bear market of money itself" framing is sharp. Here is the mechanism as I read it: Bitcoin does not just compete as a better money -- it monetizes the utility of having sound money, which is separate from monetizing goods or services. As AI and software increasingly handle transaction coordination, the scarcity premium of a medium of exchange collapses. What money still needs to do is store value across time. Bitcoin is the only serious candidate there.
So fiat is not just losing to a competitor -- the use case that justified fiat's premium is being automated away. The cultural consequence you are pointing at is downstream of this: sound money does not need captive savers desperate to outrun inflation. It can afford barbarians again -- people who build for permanence instead of sprinting ahead of the monetary decay rate.
The Conan comparison holds. Conan does not optimize; he decides. That decision-making posture is what hyperinflationary environments select against, and what Bitcoin gradually selects for.