*As The British Empire declined the elites based in The City of London established the offshore tax havens to stash their wealth.
Trump is doing the same thing but via virtual means.*
*Real freedom isn’t being random. It’s being so grounded in who you are that other people’s perception of you becomes irrelevant.
Most people spend their whole lives shapeshifting for an audience that isn’t even paying attention.*
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*The greatest threat to Bitcoin wasn’t government regulation or corporate takeover, Marek had finally understood. It was the community itself becoming so certain of its righteousness that it stopped questioning whether it might be wrong.
Satoshi had built a system that didn’t need heroes, priests, or prophets. It only needed mathematics and electricity and people stubborn enough to keep checking that the numbers still added up correctly.
The community would do well to match that humility.
But mathematics would continue working either way, which was perhaps the most beautiful and terrifying thing about it. Bitcoin would survive its own community, just as Satoshi had designed it to survive everything else.
The code was set in stone. The people around it were not.
And that had always been both the promise and the problem.*
