⚡️ Bitcoin For The Weekend ⚡️
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Good Morning Everyone,
It feels like there is a ton going on in the background right now, whether it be the outright attack on bitcoin via a bogus climate change narrative or the EU parliaments incoming crack down on “unhosted” wallets, which is essentially an attack on an individuals property rights - which is absolutely wild when you think about it - many factions of human society continue to attempt to exercise control over the bitcoin network.
Despite all of this my conviction on bitcoin has never been greater and seems to just be deepening with every passing day. The desperate need for the fundamental recalibration of human society which i believe this technology is and will continue to facilitate is on full display.
I’ve also come to realise that while it is somewhat counter-intuitive; we actually want these attacks against bitcoin. Which is basically an attack on a set of ideas and principles, or values. It is essential to stress test the network. If bitcoin is going to serve as the primary layer of value settlement for humanity, then it will need to be subjected to every such attack. While it’s critical that the community continues to expose false narratives and vigilantly bring the truth in to the light, these attacks are somewhat of a necessary evil, and each such attack that bitcoin survives will only serve to further highlight the incredible properties of the worlds most sophisticated monetary network and educate greater and greater numbers of human society on these properties and make it increasingly clear how and why the properties that underpin the network are so important.
In some respects each attack really serves as a free marketing campaign and as a mechanism that further drives the network effects and user adoption. Which really supports the concept of anti-fragility as the network not only survives any such attack, but actually benefits from the disorder and volatility.
This perspective would not be possible for anyone thinking short term. It is only possible when you really lower your time preference and zoom right out. It requires us to think differently, and bitcoin as a tool or technology enables us do to this.
Bitcoin really is the antidote. The antivirus software for human society to run, that will cleanse our operating system of the malware that has been installed that is short-circuiting our ability to self-organise in a more constructive and harmonious way.
So bring it on. I am choosing to embrace all the attacks, the lies, and the nefarious actors that wish to prevent the unleashing of human potential that this network will usher in because i believe that they are engaged in an unwinable war against truth, and are in opposition to the fundamental laws of nature which will prove to be futile given the fullness of time. The network was designed with these nefarious actors in mind. It was built for the adversarial environment in which it finds itself. It was literally made for this. Block after block will continue to be filled with transactions and blocks mined, while humans struggle to come to terms with the inevitable reality that they cannot control everything and this network will not succumb to their rigid and pathological expectations and world views.
Optimism and gratitude really are an unfair advantage in this clown world, and I’m abundant in both.
Hope you all have a beautiful weekend. I look forward to speaking to you next week.
AK
