I love that the state in all of its lobotomized brilliance is doing more than anything at any time in human history to accelerate the revolutionary agenda of radically freeing people from its own wrath in a way that it will never recover from.
The sovereign of cryptography and all of its various ways, modes, and functions is a one-way street that once understood, it cannot be taken away. It’s a form of logic that destroys the forms of power overreach the state has created from its panoptic.
I wan this to be true. But on the other side I think it is like math, something one needs to understand to be able to trust it strongly. And I am not too sure how many bitcoiners understand it and how many just run behind it, as if it was a kind of cult.
That mesh network lives in the collective mind of humanity. Humans and their rational faculties can be debased and technology and wisdom unlearned. There is educational maintenance and cultivation of virtual values within the individual and society that will need to be reinforced, always.
It is the proof-of-work that justifies the continued custodianship of such valuable contributions.
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