Good Morning Everyone,
With the bitcoin conference currently underway in Miami there has been a ton of announcements and hype around the orange coin and as you would expect a lot of people fixated primarily on price as a result. I feel while number go up, is highly probable over time (as close to certain, without being certain), to focus on the very narrow detail of price truly is to miss the forrest from the trees. What bitcoin is enabling is so much bigger than simply capital appreciation or some kind of an investment.
I realise that I could hype-up number go up tech, and it would probably be far more enticing to the average sapien running the now obsolete fiat OS, but that would be completely disingenuous of me, in opposition to my values, and frankly i have no interest in appealing the crowd that support “the current thing”. There are a plethora of hustlers out there that will happily be a vacuum for your attention if all you want is to be told bitcoin is going to one hundred million bazillion.
I’m here for the peaceful revolution. I’m here for the installation and major upgrade of a new kind of psychological software - a software package that we call money. A new operating system for us to run on our somewhat primitive hardware. The kind that will completely remove the parasitic and short-circuiting fiat malware from our minds, and install a new kind of system that is and will continue to liberate and empower humans everywhere.
With that said, here are a few suggestions from the conference which best capture the potential of such an installation.
Hope you all have a phenomenal weekend. I’ll chat to you next week.
AK
#1 Bitcoin is Freedom: Panel with Alex Gladstein, Yeonmi Park, Farida Nabourema, Fadi Elsalameen
Probably the best panel I’ve seen on why bitcoin is so important.
#2 Peter Thiel - Bitcoin Keynote
I think he gets a couple things wrong here, specifically when comparing bitcoin and ethereum on the axioms of value and velocity. I would make the case that he’s trying to propagate a narrative around this and it’s simply false. The lightning network and the development that is coming as a result of taproot highlights this very quickly as nonsense. However the part of this that i believe is extremely important is his honesty and clarity around ESG, and it is critically important as many people begin to see this evil trojan horse for what it is.
#3 Jack Mallers - The Kings Gambit
Jack is unlocking bitcoin as a medium of exchange using the lighting network and in partnership with Shopify, Blackhawk & NCR enabling someone to pay direct from their bitcoin node over TOR and across almost any major outlet in the US.
