GMONEY: Bitcoin, Soft War, Nostr, AI, and Digital 1776

Yeah, no, man, that's all really well said.

And yeah, you know, your point about violence and feeling powerless, played a lot of contact sports growing up, wrestling, football.

I've been a few fights in my life, not too many, thank God.

But I think it's one of those things where it's very easy for people to sit back, call for violence online.

I mean, we see the political climate getting worse and worse.

Seems like everyone's in their echo chambers.

Yet I don't think unless people have really kind of lived those experiences, just how powerless you can feel, how quickly things can turn ugly.

And, you know, you can't.

one so it's uh you know i think bitcoin is so important i love your framing of digital digital 1776 i wrote an article for bitcoin magazine for the print edition with julian assange that basically laid out kind of a similar case that the u.s constitution was the greatest guarantor of private property rights And the US is what it is because of that.

But the problem is, if you're not born in the US, you don't get access to the Bill of Rights, our Constitution.

And Bitcoin is that for cyberspace for 8 billion people.

It's not a panacea for everything, but it definitely reduces the incentives of violence.

I think that's very clear.

And I'd love to click into the digital 1776 point.

And, you know, just looking at Bitcoin, I think it's a peaceful revolution.

You know, when America took its freedom from Britain, it was not peaceful.

They had to resort to violence, understandably, because Britain wasn't just going to give up the country.

And the beautiful thing about Bitcoin is I think we can peacefully take the power out of these central bankers.

And they might, you know, I think one of the very nefarious things about fiat money is is that it's not like in your face violence where you know that like this is life or death or you're being physically hurt but when they're constantly stealing your purchasing power they're not a lot you know i want to say they're not allowing you to have a family but making it increasingly difficult you know i have two kids now and i literally moved back to my hometown because i wanted to be near my parents and it was one of the best decisions i ever made used to love living up in boston but i knew the only way for us to make it work is move back home and you know it's been a godsend it's been great for my grandparents but You know, I think there's a very nefarious thing with fiat currency and I don't think they're going to give up power.

So I guess the question to ask is, you know, how do you see nation states, you know, adopting Bitcoin or fighting it? Or, you know, how do you think it will shake out, you know, for both countries that, you know, we don't call, quote unquote, democracies, even though democracy is a bit of shit coin.

You know, whether it's China, North Korea, Russia or the United States, kind of just love to see how you think this is going to play out on a macro scale.

Yeah, great question.

So back to, you know, kind of digital 1776, you know, I think we have to realize that banks control governments and then governments control the people.

And so, you know, when people say, oh, we need to go to Washington with muskets, like, who are you going to shoot, man? Like, you're not going to shoot anybody.

Yeah.