Oddbean

#Bitcoin is more American than the US Dollar @MartyBent "The United States has attained the level of freedom that it has (or did have) due to the governance structure that the Founders set up, which was designed with embedded gridlock between the three branches of government so that it would be hard to change things. Because when governments change things, it's usually at the detriment of the individual and their sovereignty. Gridlock is what the framers believed would be the main protection of the rights of the individual. Not subject to a democratic vote. If it was gridlock by design and the primary protections in place were meant to prevent the centralization of power under any of the three branches, the complete centralization of the money supply is the single greatest force undermining the intended structure. With the ability to print money at will allows the government to fund itself via unfettered debt expansion functionally funded by the Federal Reserve. The framers intended for the funding of government to be by the consent of the governed principally through taxation or otherwise actually paid for by the public via real money. Not something that can be created ex nihilo." #Bitcoin is a game theoretical separation of powers, a checks-and-balance system between coders, miners, and users, none of whom can control it. #BTC is open source money of the people, by the people, for the people.

#Bitcoin is a soft fork of American values nostr:nevent1qqspqvkpk3dh7cyrh6lvn2w8usynh9mw2hgxvezqqvzhus05dqc2u3qpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33xashymtywejhz7f5xf6ksat4w4mk5ce4d5exgem2ddarwaphv4cxwanhwp6kxcm3wuux5atnd5ux6vr8x3ekuwpkdcehx0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2q3qe3spys28ne2mes5xptnr82tm7mghzggfj57uxtnkalvq6xqu6rfqxpqqqqqqzdvg86t

i like to think of bitcoin as global wealth distribution and a big public bank. the only place centralization of the money and power supply is happening is in the bank accounts of the u.s. capitalists who craft and run a corporate state. the only freedom the embedded gridlock in the united corporations of amerikkka is designed to keep in place is the freedom for a hoarder of capital/plantation owner to generate profits off the backs of an army of wage slaves. the individual fortunes of these capitalists fund the crafting and weaponization of a corporate state to accumulate more while we have to sell them more of our hours away from our families to be able to pay other capitalists for our basic needs while our communities suffer. the antithesis of united corporations of america values.