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I've been meaning to ask: If you think bitcoin was a NSA project, why do you work on it? Is it because you support the NSA's objectives, or is it because you think bitcoin has evolved to something beyond that?
A number of reasons, my framework is more complex than "state bad" just because state is usually bad.
The state is, as much as i'd like to see an AnCap utopia, that philosophy has no bearing in reality.
The state is not a monolith, it's a battlefield, the factions of the day are nationalists and globalists. Bitcoin is anti-globalist. Nationalism is minarchism when compared to globalism.
Bitcoin is more private for average individuals, less private for globalist institutions and enemy states. More of a balance shift than absolute gain.
Infinity divided by 21M is better than depreciating fiat as a unit of account even if your only exposure is via institutional equity.
I live in the US and life in the US only gets better with Bitcoin as the world reserve currency.
I'd also just throw in TOR to the discussion, sometimes spooks make good stuff.
TOR is slop, globalist/CIA
But as a psyop very effective, honeypots privacy larps even better than Bitcoin
Makes sense, and I basically agree with all of that
'I live in the US and life in the US only gets better with Bitcoin as the world reserve currency.'
You are delusional.
Without the vast income and seigniorage from the USD fiat debt slavery system the USA is broke.
Not primarily, but the lifestyle brand is what's in your face.
This was unavoidable and probably what Bitcoin's architects had in mind in making something resilient to social whimsy.
Bitcoin kind of weaponized it too, the hallmark of a great psyop.
Anarchists and libertarians shilling with full passion an NSA project as the next world reserve currency?
Privacy larps shilling a globally transparent ledger that's infinitely more useful to the Treasury department's surveillance operations than subpoena's to international banking cartels?
Social justice warriors shilling a unit of account that only scales to 200M of the world's wealthiest?
Someone at a think tank was a genius.