*The long game is going to be a fiscal riot, and bitcoin is the tactical gear* View quoted note →

*Kings don't typically want to be emperors - their job is to protect the people from the deprivations of the oligarchs - but the oligarchs force empire on the king* View quoted note →

*only death is free, and that costs life* (Ditto has a one-click translate option.) View quoted note →

*...like any open-source project, the development winds up being sort of "anarcho-communist" in practice. We all get together, "do as each according to our ability", and arrive at a consensus on decisions. Nobody "owns" this. It's Zucotti Park in cyberspace. Bitcoin _itself_ on the other hand is the most real manifestation of an anarcho-capitalist economic system that was ever invented. Bitcoiners who don't understand this dialectic wind up getting forced into this sort of "siege mentality", who's going to "win?" idea.* View quoted note →

*People get frustrated at the slow speed, but stable nations don't have rapidly-changing politics. That is what makes them stable. It's also taking politicians and voters a long time to understand what is going on around them. Everything changes so fast. So, voters make mistakes that look stupid, in hindsight, but they eventually self-correct.* View quoted note →