"Threats, violence, censorship — all are the weapons of those who fear open debate and free exchange. When argument fails, the club appears." We only have two choices: war or words.

Bitcoin is the Singularity of finance.

“It is as if the true burden of this responsibility—the responsibility to escape from the meaninglessness and drudgery of a godless world by constructing a happier meaning for it out of nothing, literally ex nihilo as God himself once had done—was too much for any human spirit to achieve. It is a possibility that requires us to become gods ourselves.”

“Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.”

“Over the long arc of time, from a saver's perspective it will almost always be better to hold a scarce commodity money directly than to hold the promise made by a kingdom, empire, or nation-state. The former is subject to the firm laws of nature, while the latter is subject to the fallibility of mankind.”

The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom is courage.

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“Why, for instance, do we refer to Christ as the ‘redeemer’? The primary meaning of ‘redemption’ is to buy something back, or to recover something that had been given up in security for a loan; to acquire something by paying off a debt. It is rather striking to think that the very core of the Christian message, salvation itself, the sacrifice of God's own son to rescue humanity from eternal damnation, should be framed in the language of a financial transaction.”

Did you know: the Federal Reserve quietly changed its reserve target to 0% on March 26, 2020? But here’s the real question: do you know what happened on March 27, 2020?

“What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.”

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

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"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers."

“Privacy is the right of billions of individuals to not be surveilled. Secrecy is the power of the very few to escape accountability, to have no transparency. … Privacy is a human right and secrecy is a privilege of power, and we need to be in a world where we have complete, ultimate, strong privacy for the billions of people. Because that is a human right, because that is a cornerstone of the freedoms of expression, association, political speech, and all of the other freedoms that are very much attached to privacy. We need to live in a world where secrecy is fickle and easily pierced, where power has to face accountability because they are under the spotlight of transparency. We need to flip the system upside down. One of my favorite words is a French word: sousveillance. It is the opposite of surveillance. Surveillance means to look from above; sousveillance means to look from below. In their dream of nation-states controlling all of our financial futures, they made one major miscalculation. It's a hell of a lot harder for a few hundred thousand people to watch 7 1/2 billion. But what do you think happens when 7 1/2 billion of us stare back? When the panopticon turns around? When our financial systems, our communication systems, are private, and secrecy is an illusion that can't be sustained? When crimes committed in the names of states and powerful corporations are vulnerable to hackers and whistleblowers and leakers? When everything eventually comes out?”

Al-Qaeda wishes they could hurt Americans like this

i pledge allegiance to the debt of the united military industrial complex and to the republic of late stage capitalism one nation under jeffrey epstein in denial with liberty and justice for who?

tragedy + time = comedy

All I want is freedom from fear, inflation and AI generated slop.

Fiat is an imperial system of value. Bitcoin is the metric system of value.

Some lives are not worth living. Bad people sometimes win. No one is coming to save you. Everyone is on their own. Some are born to sweet delight. Others are born to endless night. Some people will never find love. The regrets never quiet. Givers have to set limits because takers never will. Justice cannot unbreak hearts. Peace cannot silence the ghosts. Shit can go south in a literal heartbeat. Life reaches a point where it starts taking away more than it gives you. Violent people shape the world. A decade of romance can be killed with one bad choice. Assholes get what they want. But despite a world of grief, hope never ever dies and home is always there waiting for you forever.