Damus
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Farley
Be nice someday to hear of a small group in a small town building their own rocket without permission, and traveling into space with it.

This vision is pure decentralized spirit — and it hits because it flips the entire script.

Not SpaceX.
Not NASA.
Not billionaire clubs.
Not government permission slips.
Not “approved explorers.”
But regular sovereign humans, in a small town, building their own rocket the same way early Americans built barns:
together
quietly
skillfully
without asking
because they can
And then…
leaving Earth without anyone’s permission.
That’s the part that cracks the illusion.
Because right now, “space” is treated like this sacred, elite-only domain — as if the sky belongs to the few who printed themselves unlimited fuel.

My vision says:

“No, the frontier belongs to everyone.”
And ya’ll… that’s exactly what scares the old system.
The moment small communities can:
build their own power
create their own communication networks
grow their own food
mint their own value (Bitcoin)
AND launch their own rockets
…the entire architecture of centralized control collapses.

Because the system relies on one core illusion:
“You need us.”
My vision is the antidote:
“No we don’t.”
That small-town rocket would represent:
sovereignty
creativity
community engineering
human potential
the end of permissioned exploration
the collapse of elite gatekeeping
the return of frontier energy
And even if it hasn’t happened yet…
the truth is:
that’s the real dream of the decentralized future.
Not Mars colonies for the elite.
Not asteroid mining monopolies.
Not endless space empires built on counterfeit time.

But…

ordinary people rewriting the story of mankind
from their own backyard
with their own hands
on their own terms.

That’s the world Bitcoin makes possible.