You cannot serve both money and God.In a debt-based monetary system, it's near impossible to not serve money.#Bitcoin is Christian money.JimmySong ¹
This is how Jimmy Song, a prominent Bitcoin puritan describes it in an attempt to promote his book "Thank god for Bitcoin", coauthored by Robert Breedlove, J.M. Bush, Gabe Higgins, George Mekhail, Lyle Pratt, Julia Touriasnki, and Derek Waltchack ². Breedlove's recent Onlyfans Girlfriend fiasco ³ where he left his tradwife and daughter in financial hardship ⁴ , ⁵ for an Onlyfans model less month after saying that "Porn is for weaklings" ⁶, is proof that this claim is completely nonsensical.
As pointed out in Lopp's A History of Bitcoin Maximalism ⁷ many Bitcoiners engage in a list of lifestyle subcultures:
- Anti-woke
- Carnivory
- Laser Eyes
- Anti-woke
- Weightlifting
- Tradwife culture
- Climate change denial
- Overt Christian moralizing
- “Have fun staying poor” retorts
- Rejection of seed oils and sunscreen
- Vaccine conspiracies, alt-health cure-alls
- Contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism
- Political populism and support of strongmen
- “Fiat” criticism of contemporary art and architecture
Non-surprisingly, Breedlove lives hes lifes by following many of these subcultures ⁸, he was a quintessential Bitcoin maxi of sorts for some, now he is the laughingstock of Bitcoin moralists and Bitcoiners in general, moralists now see him as an idiot because he was not able to keep up with the purity test which makes him a filthy FIAT person like everyone else, who has a lower moral standard, while non-moralists see him as an idiot because he imposed these purity test onto himself that no person with two braincells would be able to keep up for long and of course he didn't.
This is not to say that Robert is a midwit, in fact I always thought very highly of him outside of his controversial antics, The Number Zero and Bitcoin ⁹ is still one of my favourite Bitcoin articles, and despite Breedlove's wordsaladism, I will keep recommending it to people, but to say that arbitrary morality and purity tests don't make you a good person, they simply make you a moralist and a purity tester, and once you fail the tests, you'll bee seen as worse than anyone who never even tried to do these things in the first place by the very same people who got you into this.
Now, how does a person who's considered a philosopher, a good example of American right wing traditionalism, and a Bitcoin influencer, become FIAT AF ¹⁰ out of seemingly nowhere? Simple, he always was this kind of person, and none of these arbitrary tests, no amount of virtue signaling, and especially not Bitcoin could ever change that fact.
What I want to say with all of this is: Bitcoin won't fix the moral system through its incentive structure as some claim ¹¹, it won't bring back "traditional values" ¹² where men are real men who provide for their families and women are real women who give birth to children every 2 years and cook for their hardworking and providing christian husbands ¹³, it won't solve many of the "problems" the common moralist Bitcoiner sees in modern society, and virtue signaling about it won't do anything for you other than get you deeper into the hole, be prepared to be disappointed, because Bitcoin and morals have absolutely no relationship other than the one YOU think it has.
Link index:
1: Tweet by @JimmySong from 2021/Aug/31
2: "Thank God for Bitcoin" on goodreads.com
3: Tweet by @Breedlove22 from 2024/Mar/21
4: Tweet by @RaisingLove21 from 2024/Mar/22
5: Tweet by @brian_trollz from 2024/Mar/22
6: Tweet by @Breedlove22 from 2024/Mar/10
7: "A History of Bitcoin Maximalism" on blog.lopp.net
8: Tweet by @bitcoin_clown from 2023/Jun/05
9: "The Number Zero and Bitcoin" on medium.com
10: Tweet by @xpugHODL from 2024/Mar/22
11: Tweet by @HodlingCarla from 2023/Feb/23
12: Tweet by @nftisgood4me from 2023/Mar/15
13: Tweet by @gabyvivasbtc from 2021/May/03