I believe Bitcoin’s most powerful feature is that it gives the individual a binary choice this fourth turning. Option 1: Your entire existence will be at the permission of the state; confined within the walls of a digital prison so that your resistance to their authority is no longer a human problem, but a software problem. Your dissent will be quashed on demand by removing your ability to speak, transact or store value for yourself with the click of a button. Option 2: You adopt Bitcoin in a self-sovereign way and peacefully declare that you will not participate in their tyranny. You understand that whoever controls the money, controls the population. And you control your private keys, so you cannot be controlled. Once you’ve made this binary choice, every downstream action you take will either be in service of a permanent global digital panopticon OR freedom and abundance for the individual. Each individual that chooses self-sovereignty meaningfully helps deter the tyrannical dystopia that is lurking around the corner. #Bitcoin #Nostr