I Want to See Some Smiles
Bitcoin inverts the power between citizens and government. Once people can carry all their stored energy across a border in their heads, no government can hold it hostage, and governments have to earn their citizens' goodwill instead of assuming compliance.
The one-minute version
Governments that fund promises through taxation and inflation, sustain a lobbying industry through control of money, and plan digital currencies that can freeze a citizen's money in a few clicks.
I want to see smiles when I walk into a government office, when I have business to do with the government.00:30
Money is power, or energy is power.12:03
Bitcoin is fuck you money. Get used to saying it. You better start being nice.26:05
Every passage, on the record.
- 00:30Quote
I want to see smiles when I walk into a government office, when I have business to do with the government.
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I can take all of my energy, I can wrap it up in my head and I can walk out of the country with it and they can't do dick to stop it.
- 01:35Quote
Now that we have the upper hand, now that knowledge has prevailed and the internet came through and everybody realized it was all a load of shit.
- 02:11Quote
No, you do not see any of that because they are flushing it all down the fucking toilet.
- 03:52Claim · condensed
Even if governments attack miners, nodes or ISPs, none of it works, because the network as a whole is too resilient for partial attacks to matter.
- 04:26Claim · condensed
The single most compelling part of Bitcoin's design is the game theory that makes government intervention against it self-defeating.
- 07:33Claim · condensed
No government can shut down Bitcoin; the only way to do it is to turn off the internet itself.
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No government can shut down Bitcoin. The only way to shut down Bitcoin is to turn off the internet. Good luck with that, right?
- 10:14Claim · condensed
Governments face a binary choice with Bitcoin: embrace it early enough to leverage the system, or cripple their citizens by falling behind as the rest of the world adopts it.
- 12:03Quote
Money is power, or energy is power.
- 15:09Reference · condensed
Cites Jeff Booth's argument that technology is inherently deflationary, because people keep innovating better ways to get more use out of their energy.
- 16:45Analogy · condensed
Imagine being one of the 21 million hole-coiners in 2040 and asking whether it would be better to see the other 10 billion people on the planet homeless and struggling, or everyone able to contribute to and share in growing energy production.
- 20:06Prediction · condensed
If Bitcoin use is criminalized, the people who actually understand the protocol, and their energy, are the first to leave, ahead of everyone else.
- 20:36Claim · condensed
Once talent and energy start leaving a country that bans Bitcoin, other governments compete to attract that fleeing energy, because they understand how much more productive it makes them.
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The death spiral is now in place.
- 22:12Prediction · condensed
It is a foregone conclusion that CBDCs will be issued broadly, because the world keeps moving toward more digital money rather than less.
- 22:44Claim · condensed
CBDCs are bullish for Bitcoin because they force an entire country to learn digital wallets, which is usually the hardest conceptual hurdle for people first encountering Bitcoin as money.
- 22:44Prediction · condensed
A sufficiently smart government quietly prints money to buy Bitcoin, then, once its own currency comes under enough pressure from Bitcoin adoption, issues a CBDC backed by that Bitcoin rather than admitting citizens should just hold Bitcoin directly.
- 23:50Analogy · condensed
Imagine a mandatory CBDC where all the money in your bank account converts automatically and you get a bonus of a thousand Fed coin just for signing up and being a good citizen.
- 24:21Analogy · condensed
A rival of the ruling party, or someone who refuses a vaccine, has their funds seized or docked, and anyone who tries to help them suffers the same fate, all with a few simple clicks on the government's ledger.
- 24:55Claim · condensed
Bitcoin functions as the ultimate measuring stick for the effectiveness of any organization, and most obviously of government, because it exposes how many resources are being wasted by inefficiency and bloat.
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Bitcoin is the ultimate measuring stick for the effectiveness of any organization, including and most obviously the government.
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I want to see some smiles. I want to be greeted like I'm walking in to the Ritz Carlton.
- 26:05Quote
Bitcoin is fuck you money. Get used to saying it. You better start being nice.
- 26:05Claim · condensed
Bitcoin turns the power structure between citizens and government back to what it was always meant to be.