Just finished reading The Genesis Book by @Aaron van Wirdum
Aaron elegantly weaves the ideals of Austrian economics with the motives of the Cypherpunks. An absolute must read for all Bitcoiners, couldn’t put it down once I started.
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Cryptography and strong values 🤜🤛
A formula for freedom.
Facilitated by a bunch of bad asses known as The Cypherpunks. Strongly influenced by Austrian economics, Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and Orwell’s ‘1984’, the Cypherpunk movement made it their mission to defend privacy.
They didn’t do it by lobbying to politicians or through legal process. They didn’t ask for permission, they wrote code and claimed freedom themselves. And as per their ethos, they distributed it as free software.
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Yet another example of individuals in the free market solving a problem, except in this particular case solving a problem that will change the course of history.
Stoked to be here for it.
Home 🫶
Moving to this part of Australia recently is undoubtedly the best decision I’ve ever made for myself and my family #ByronBay
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Spontaneous order 🪐
We see it everywhere, in everything.
The fabric of our being, in nature, in language. The entire universe in harmonious balance.
Fiat money, Keynesian economics and the resulting Cantillon effect represent an attempt by men to defy this fundamental law.
Bitcoin is the rebalancing.
From chaos, greed and delusion… to order.
And the craziest thing is that for those of us that are awake, we all get to play a part in it.
What a time!
#grateful
“If the users don’t control the program, the program controls the users” - Richard Stallman
Currently learning about the origins of Hacker Culture documented by Aaron Van Wirdum in The Genesis Book
I’ve been conditioned to believe hackers are criminals who want to wreak havoc but the original hackers or ‘Hacks’ as they referred to themselves were a passionate group out of MIT who figured out how to access and edit the source code of the TX-0 and challenged each to make the computer perform increasingly difficult tasks.
They were well aware of the impact computers were going to have on the world, they developed a philosophical and ethical framework and were passionate about the necessity of open source software.
They could see the dangers of closed source software very early.
‘While Keynes argued that governments should play an active role in managing the economy , Hayek maintained that the free market was best left to its own devices’
In other words, let’s go into the forest and start re-organising nature to suit our current whim and ignore the spontaneous sacred order at play.
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