Bitcoin Is Activism
I caught a glimpse of an ABC news story about nuns who identified as "activist investors." You can read about and watch it here. These nuns invest $2,000 in a fortune 500 company to receive voting rights. These nuns were clever. I don't know what they intend to do or if I agree with their goals, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. Holy shiitake mushrooms Batman, I am also an activist investor.
Next time someone asks me, "What do you do for a living?" I'll have an answer. I work a part-time low social-status job with no benefits other than an abysmal retirement plan run by well dressed, mathematically challenged people; but in my free time, I write about bitcoin and this thing we call freedom tech which is mostly stuff you can use to send bitcoin over the lightning network and other nerdy stuff.
Bitcoin is not a stock. We have no shareholder meetings. We don't have a board. We can't vote. We do not trust such things, therefore we run a full bitcoin node to build consensus. The monetary policy of bitcoin is set in stone because We The People are watching the math. So far, the Bitcoin treasury companies appear to have 2,285,604 whole bitcoin.
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What if they use Enron accounting methods?
WE know there will only be 21 million bitcoin ever. They can fudge the numbers a little, but we know how many bitcoin exist in the wild at all times. We expect this number to be updated every ten minutes. This is not up for a vote. You are free to fork off and create a different monetary policy. Like a honeybadger, we don't care. Your fake bitcoin fork will not be included in the bitcoin time chain. If you like to us, we will reveal the truth because bitcoin is math. You can say 2+2=5, but you can't change the rules of the universe. You can jump my Queen with your pawn as if you were playing checkers; but nobody will want to play chess with you. Change the consitution. Take the dollar off the gold standard for 54 years. Fire people who give you math results you don't want and pretend you will balance the budget and make believe in a "debt-ceiling." Bitcoiners do not march on Washington. We do not vote on boards. We use a paralell system.
We protest by taking as much of our value out of the fiat system as possible. We use peer-to-peer electronic cash.
[Edward Snowden](Edward Snowden) could have been as anonymous as Satoshi, but decided to sacrifice anonymous privilege to verify he had access to the information, leaving a trail for the history books. The documentary shows him giving this sensitive information to journalists bound by ethics. He was exiled from the United States. His crime: Showing the world that Big Brother Is Watching You.
Bitcoin is not totally private, but can be used outside the system. "buying bitcoin" is exiting he fiat system that makes it impossible to save capital. Our investment activism is an investment outside of this system. We do not trust food pyramid pusing, suit-wearing politicians. We verify our own money that is outside of that system.
21 Million Is Activism
I first read A Cypherpunk's Manifesto on Activism.net
I worked as a cashier at a grocery store while in college and people still used cash. We began getting automated cashiers and the produce guy said I should start looking or work before the cashier jobs went away. I worked the night shift on the morning of 9-11. The morning cashier was running late and I had to cover for her. A customer came in, paid in cash and said, "All hell broke loose. A couple planes hit the Twin Towers."
I knew several cashier's who bought homes. Those days are long gone. Homes are blackrock wealth storage containers and AirBNB rentals. Cashiers still exist, but only because some baby boomers still write checks. Most people pay with credit cards. Some places will not even accept paper money.
A couple hundred thousand block's ago, I worked at a warehouse because my other job was deemed ”non-essential.” Unfortunately, I couldn't afford to stack my fiat UBI check, so I got the job to stackas hard as I could. The job sucked. It's back breaking, foot-hurting work. People made fun of me because I talked about bitcoin all the time, but I talked about it anyway because I am an activist. I knew guys working 12 hour days, 6 days a week, and living in a truck. I saw people sleeping in their cars on my morning jog. These are working people in the suburbs, not the stereotypical heroin zombie. I worked the same shitty job, but I saved what I could in better money. Imagine working all day for overtime pay and parking that fiat in a savings account that pays 0.01%. In what world does that make sense? How does this financial product help you save for a down payment on a house? It can't, so I use bitcoin instead.
What We Fight For
Marty Bent likes to say, "fix the money, fix the world." That pretty much sums it up.
- The money is fucked up.
- The Military Industrial Complex Waged war for decades.
- The US National Debt is a big problem.
- The unfunded liabikities are a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM.
I used to find the math in 1984 far fetched. Now I see the math on the news and think twice. Do any of these make up wearing suits ever buy coffee? The money is worth so little people throw dildos at WNBA players to pump shitcoins.
What if we threw sats at WNBA Players instead?
Fix the money, fix the world.
Throwing green dildos, NGFTW.
I use cryptography as activism. We don't throw dildos. We use bitcoin to fix opt out of the broken monetary system.
How do we fix the money?
We mine bitcoin. We run nodes to enforce the rules we want to see in the timechain. You are free to change the code, but we get a vote in defining what bitcoin is: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. There will be less than 21 million whole bitcoin. Each bitcoin can be divided by 100 million sats. As an activist, I invest in bitcoin and bitcoin infrastructure. My node helps build consensus on the monetary policy: No more than 21 Million.
We don't bully the chairman of the federal reserve system. We know, nothing stops this train, because the fiat monetary system is fucked up beyond all repair. Put another way, we can't vote our way out of this shit. Ticking a box won't fix the money. Political promises are bullshit. Could you live on $2,000 worth of social security every month? Who are you fooling?
Lyn Alden says the term, "nothing stops this train" comes from Breaking Bad, but Cranston was in another show called Malcom In The Middle.
They had normal, middle class 90’s jobs. They owned a home. The fiat standard killed the American Dream. The mantra of fiat should be debase the money, fuck the world. I use bitcoin as a way to protest that reality by using an alternative reality-- The Bitcoin Network.
21 million is not about how many whole coins you have or don't have. 21 million is a mindset. In 50 years, very few people will own a whole coin, but bitcoin will still protect people from debasement. My bitcoin activism is not about how much bitcoin I have. My stack is a protest.
I hodl because I dislike monetary debasement. Bitcoin is a guarantee that my money will not be debased. It's like a middle finger pointing towards the Federal Reserve. Don't focus on the finger not being noticed by the politicians. 🖕 Otherwise you will miss all the heavenly glory that comes with living fiat free.
Fiat is an oppressive system. There's no need to work all day and sell your soul for bullshit overtime pay. You can opt-out by protesting "the system." We don't whine about interest rates. We don't take the black pill because we have hope. We use money that can't be debased with a click of a button. What's in your wallet?