A potency can be actualized only by what is already actual. It cannot produce its own actualization merely from inside itself.
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Negation
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One had to take time, to exercise great patience and persistence, undergo a genuine sort of labor, in order to achieve insight into what is #Bitocin, or more generally, what is real
Fiat has the structure of despair. It signals a kind of desperate neediness, the response to which tends to take the repetitive and self reinforcing form of addiction
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#Bitcoin presents itself in the form of internal bonds, connection, it shares intrinsically in the order it helps constitute. Fiat is by its very nature divisive.
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Fiat money is quite literally a zero sum game. It produces nothing, but transforms through subtraction.
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The power to determine oneself is most properly actualized, not in one gratification or another, but precisely as the power to keep oneself from being determined by any particular present good.
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Money is not in itself an actual good to be enjoyed, but rather a power for endlessly deferred future enjoyment, money can be a goal of activity without implying any sinful self indulgence.
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An absent good can fail to move a person, but a present pain cannot.
Welcome to the fifth epoch of #Bitcoin
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减半日是人类的节日
Is freedom essentially social or essentially political?
Is freedom self-originating?
There is no ethical alternative to universalized private ownership, which implies universalized self ownership, as all other forms of individual ownership degenerates into a ruling and ruled class
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There are only two possible ways to acquire wealth, one is by Making and one is by Taking.
— Robert Breedlove
Sovereignism vs statism
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What if the current state of world history is not progression or advancement, but progressive decivilization?
Every social revolution will necessarily have to begin with just a few uncommon men: the natural elite.
These are the ones who, having good minds of their own, have further trained them by studying and learning. Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would invent it.
— La Boetie
The idea of #Bitcoin is not utopian in nature, it does not count on “new men” but on people as they are, with people who take actions out of self interest, who need to deal with scarce resources and time in they day to day lives
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比特币的减半是一种重复，在这种周期性的重复中，比特币的符号身份得到改变。用黑格尔的话，比特币的概念作为主体能动地演进。在每一次减半之后，“比特币是什么”这样命题宾语也在发生改变。
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