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 Imagine a country with 600k inhabitants, limited financial infrastructure, gold, sugar exports, oil fields, hydroelectric power and a Bitcoiner as a presidential candidate..

I am of course talking about the Latin American nation of Suriname. 🇸🇷
On the border of Guyana and Brazil.

The presidential candidate is Maya Parbhoe and is a true bitcoin maxi with zero tolerance for shitcoins and government interference.
Her technical understanding penetrates both financial technology, capital structure, energy systems and real estate as well as bitcoin mining.

Suriname has major deficiencies in financial infrastructure, but good mobile coverage.
This, combined with a low population, possibly makes Suriname an ideal country for Bitcoin adoption.

As a people, Surinamese are subjected to weak money. With long days in exchange for low wages. But with a strong connection to own culture and history placed in
rich nature, heritage and climate they are very conducive to a bright future for a nation that dares to think anew. 

7 to 9 November this year they are holding a Bitcoin conference in Paramaribo. surinamedecentralized.com
I have secured tickets for me and my family to get a glimpse of what I believe will be the start of a bitcoin based national economy.

Want to give Maya Parbhoe a better chance to get Suriname onto a Bitcoin standard?
Send a donation via lightning to: mayapar25@blink.sv

#suriname https://image.nostr.build/5133d7004dd15f08bc51cd64110d36f9ee446f28947061163fea020b94fb8484.jpg  
 The year is 2040.

You never bought bitcoin.

You boycotted all grocery stores when they started pricing all the goods in btc, so you moved into a small log cabin out in the forest where you barely survive on some rotten fish and elk carcasses that you take with you whenever you can. 

Your kids think you're stupid for not keeping up with the times, but you say you know it's just a scam and that you won't live in the city again until bitcoin has gone its way.

Welcome to the Bitcoin standard.

#bitcoinstandard 
 The stock market is dead. If it weren't for the s&p 500's top 10 companies, the stock market would turn out to be negative.

The only reason it looks like it's growing is because the floor you're standing on is falling.

Why does it fall you may ask?

Money supply. 
The krone and the dollar are the yardsticks we use to follow prices. 
What happens then when we shrink the yardstick we use to measure by printing tons of money?

In case anyone has any doubts that the dollar/krone gives a false impression of growth in the stock market, just take a look at this graph. apolloacademy.com/sp500-vs-m2/

It becomes particularly clear when we zoom in on 2020, where we printed 6 billion dollars.
Here S&P responds by inflating itself at the same moment. 

Do you think it was because these companies suddenly became more productive? 
 Yo! 

#introductions