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Gustavo · 1d
People don't name fiat money, in its all evolving forms, fairly enough. It's nothing less than the mark of the beast.
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I totally agree here. Fiat is a corruption of the base grammar, logic, and rhetoric from which science and knowledge emerge. When the underlying system of accounting is unbounded and discretionary, thought itself loses its anchor. Reasoning detaches from consequence, language drifts from structure, and disciplines begin operating on symbols that no longer resolve back to physical reality.

The result is both economic and epistemic confusion. Knowledge struggles to cohere when the substrate beneath it does not enforce coherence, when commitments can be revised and truth is not required to pass through irreversible cost.

What is required to resolve fiat is an entirely different school of thought and instantiation, one in fractal harmony with the universal structure in which energy becomes durable truth in the form of time and memory.

Bitcoin provides that base grammar. Not the fiat interpretation layered on top, but the structure itself: boundedness, thermodynamic cost, irreversible state change, and convergence on a single ordered history. If one is not thinking from within that grammar, then the reasoning still proceeds from the wrong chain.

This process is not confined to the machine. The mind must align with the instantiation. Bitcoin is both a system and a discipline, a structure that pulls thought, language, and action back into correspondence with a world where energy resolves into time, memory, and durable truth.

This is the mission we are beginning to build @The Bitcoin Lens
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Gustavo · 1d
❤️ Love your work, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwwak8vuewwdcxzcm9qqsrcn632cfyx5j0xpld9m389370ffuzgp8muwshvcrqgwm26sn7uacvvl2tv , Godspeed there. I've read summaries of it, with the ti...
Martin Enlund · 1d
Yep, the money system is a big deal: What happens to our conclusions if our assumptions are wrong? What is more enabling of a "false consciousness" than fiat money? nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqs35yguednn9f9equekad0ztklhmnujuvrzgzmtmc3axtcwcpkeyqq2nvv620p3j636sw9y5yazfgvu5kvr894e9jy3xqjs
Cameron Vaské · 1d
Yep—because Bitcoin is a sound money. Very well put. From a societal and governmental point of view—sound money enables truth-telling across time. Without it (and especially under fiat currency conditions) the information is time-delayed and signal source is confused. In some sense, none of us...