Bitcoin changes the relationship between money, property and political power. Knut Svanholm and Rahim Taghizadegan examine its implications for individual sovereignty, privacy and the possibility of building communities around voluntary exchange.
"If there's one thing I've learned over the last couple of years that has made my life magnificently better, it's that reality is not what it seems like in any meaningful sense. And there's so much more out there."
"A very realistic possibility is that you see governments get themselves into increasing amounts of problems. Governments go bankrupt. Their currencies do collapse. And they then blame the Bitcoiners and the gold bugs."
"The real reason that I wear the mask is because it doesn't matter who I am. Anybody can be doing what we're doing thanks to Bitcoin and the Bitcoin node network. The message, the idea of free speech in a worldwide mesh network, does not depend upon any single person's identity. Everyone is building the mesh network."
"I came to visit, just to visit. On the second day, I bought a motorbike from Facebook Marketplace just to lock in. Okay, this might be my place."
“Politics is overrated, generally.”
"These are the pillars of our thought... and there's going to be no wavering from that. "
"We are starting to see symptoms of civilisational decline. "
"Shall we lock everyone down and then cripple supply chains, then pump as much money into the system as we can possibly get away with? "
"We're going down the wrong path ."
"The hardest pill to swallow is that democracy is socialsim ."
"Where we've got to with the internet over the last 25 years is terrifying."
"Do you want to bitch about it? Do you want to take a black pill? or do you want to find some solutions?"
"We now have half a million civil servants in the United Kingdom. We used to run the entire empire on forty thousand. "
"Bitcoin was built for chaos. Real estate was not."
"You don't need to be ashamed for living and acting freely. This is just how it's supposed to be. "
"Inflation is the greatest, unfair, immoral tax that exists on the planet. "
"It can sound very deep and philosophical at first — this idea that if you find value in something, you can send some value back. But it really comes down to the creator: How much do you want that freedom?"
"You can only be as free as you are authentic to yourself ."
"Trump gave a speech saying that he's ending Elizabeth Warren & Biden's 'War on Crypto'. We're trying to say to him, 'Then release the prisoners of war if you ended the war on crypto'."
"F rankly, if you don't stand your ground, you will always be fleeing. You will never have anything. Próspera got a commitment from the government of Honduras to have this arrangement for the next 45 years. At this point, the government i...
"Achieve gender equality, ensure the rule of law, promote justice, and promote non-discrimination. These are the fancy words that they're using, but in reality, the deeper you go into this agenda, the more you realise that there's a plan here that aspires to absolute control over humanity."
