Feeling a lot better after hanging out with @walker and @HODL today.
Good to connect with my people and remember why this is all important to me. β€οΈ
Are we in an echo chamber, or does βcryptoβ really not have anything to offer substantially in terms of culture, values, ethos, and really presentation of a greater vision on a whole?
Maybe this is more of a xitter kind of question (as nostr really is a bitcoin echo chamber), but all of the web3 BS seems like just that. It all seems so flaccid and disingenuous. The lack of charisma around crypto vs bitcoiners just seems really stark to me, but then again, maybe I am just stuck in this echo chamber.
Iβve had a real chip on my shoulder lately and been feeling pissed off about a lot of things (personally and otherwise).
And even in that, I thank God every day for bitcoin. Like, fuck the money part, I just am so grateful that there is something they cannot control, they cannot kill, they cannot stop. That even as captured, as played, and as controlled all of the dialog around it is; they cannot have my bitcoin, and they cannot stop me from transacting with whom I choose and they cannot break cryptography from the very functions that are its nature.
The crypto sycophant shit is disgusting and vile; and itβs also an essential component of Bitcoinβs development. Nothing provides a better smoke screen for how important bitcoin is than the crypto bros and their active destruction the entire financial system with their debased garbage, outright scams, and criminal conduct. When the smoke clears, and all of that garbage shows itself for just what it is; bitcoin will still be plugging along, block by block, bit by bit.
And even more, Bitcoin gives me a reason to have hope. Hope that even with as fucked up as everything is, no one canβt make more bitcoin, no one can stop the network, and no one will control it. That hope is the smallest of light in a world of utter darkness; and yet it is in the darkest of nights that such a light can shine the brightest.
I am always astounded at how little time, energy, and effort most people put into asking this question, if they are even able to engage themselves in a sincere questioning towards it.
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Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense.
It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.
