196 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 14 Feb \ parent \ on: Machiavelli on Bitcoin BooksAndArticles
that’s a great point. all the toxicity of bitcoiners is confined to the digital realm… at least that’s how i perceive it.
but as a counterpoint to that one, maybe that’s enough.
fighting back with one’s money may be more powerful than fighting back with real world protests and riots.
I sure hope that even by merely hodling and stacking I too contribute to the inevitable collapse of fiat.
(In fact, I'm fully expecting there will be a phase in the transition where we will be branded "financial terrorists".)
The primacy of Church was not ended overnight either. From the invention of the printing press, arrival of gunpowder in Europe and Martin Luther to the French Revolution (roughly considered the first modern secular nation state) took a couple centuries of erosion of old powers through the use of new technology. (I do not take credit for this, this is obviously paraphrased from the Sovereign Individual.)
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