I listened to Natalie Brunell's Coin Stories recently released pod with Jeff Booth last night and am once again finding myself having to develop new thinking about the world and specifically about how this world will look in the future (built upon/in the Bitcoin System).....and I gotta just say - I like what I come up with!
I feel like it takes a lot to recognize that the "System" we all currently live in/on is just that....a system we built, that allows us to communicate with each other in a manner that is conducive to not just our continued existence but that actually allows us to flourish and grow as a species/organism....
Maybe this is where some of Jason Lowery's "Softwar" comes into the mix for me as well....but if we really get out of our heads....and drop our ego's....and recognize that we are nothing but animals attempting to live on a this planet that we just happen to be on...then I think it becomes a little easier to think about the "Systems" we have built for ourselves and how we can change them....
This is the beauty of what Bitcoin is....isn't it? It is a program/protocol that was written, which enables us to communicate with each other in a manner that is decentralized, secure, and open to all of us. Which allows us to verify the information being communicated as being tied to real energy/output of the sender. Hence allowing us to "send" that energy/output to the future through space with minimal data/value loss, which (as we measure from our old system) looks like it is actually becoming more valuable when in reality it is simply not being "stolen" or "taxed" or "corrupted" at the rates of everything else we have built to date to communicate value to each other.
When I look at Bitcoin in this manner - it makes me so....so....so....bullish and hopeful about the future. It allows me to realize that we will get to a much better spot within our world....we are winning....
All succesful systems built upon/within the Bitcoin System - simply are better than all things built upon/within FIAT systems....and this isn't to say that those systems were not valuable....as they got us to where we are today....it is simply to say that those same systems....when they are de-FIAT-ized and are instead built with Bitcoin as their underlying base protocol layer....will be better. They simpy will be more fair, more respectful, more forward thinking than most things we currently have.
And in case you are thinking...I don't believe it, or this guy is off his rocker....or no way Bitcoin changes "human behavior" or greed....
Think about this....
I am building a business, accepting Bitcoin in which I share in future price appreciation of Bitcoin with my customers....
This is a system that is better because of Bitcoin - I can do it because of Bitcoin....and if I can do it....why can't you? Why can't every major business out there? (They can't because their focus is based within the wrong system) but.... as more people like me, build their businesses on Bitcoin and their focus shifts to measuring their success from the Bitcoin eco-system....we will continue to grow and succeed and work with each other in a more cooperative manner vs. being extractive and predatory.
Stay humble and Stack sats!