Damus
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Guy Swann
@TheGuySwann
Imagine thinking that one achieves independence from a totalitarian ruler without paying some price for it?

No volatility, no risk, no days of losses, no period of stagnancy, no regulatory risk, no institutions fighting back. Just skipping through meadows and green candles and then throwing in the towel the moment the wind blows.

Bitcoin isn't about getting rich, if that's why you're here then you've lost the plot. Bitcoin is about not being beholden to the waste and corruption of a class of people who live off of monetary fraud. Bitcoin is about PROVING that they cannot dilute us for their wars, they cannot counterfeit for their subsidies, they cannot indebt us and our children and their children to get the lie of "free stuff" today.

Bitcoin is about independence and the risk and costs that come with it. We may get wealthy IF we achieve independence. But we will never get it asking for permission or waiting for green candles before even taking a stance.

Imagine if the American founders had said "we pledge our lives as long as we are comfortable, our fortunes as long as they only go up, and our sacred honor as long as we only benefit from this quest. Otherwise we apologize and ask the King's approval."

Some people may not understand that this is THE battle, and maybe they have no idea how or where they are paying for the corruption of their own society. But they are paying for it nonetheless. Bitcoin is the solution and it's not because its going to go up every day you hold it. Quite literally the opposite in fact. When we take away the power to dilute the money, we force them to come straight to our door with their guns and demand what we have earned directly.

Bitcoin's mission is to destroy the illusion that they are giving us something for free, and prove that the state is a system of violence and the central bank is a system of covert theft at an unheard of scale.

That is the purpose of this tool. It is *independence* through technological rebellion. Not wealth. It is *risking our wealth* for a chance at ending the era of central banking and infinite debts and a world where kids grow up with the poisonous and absurd notion that even as technology becomes more advanced and our capacity to produce grows exponentially, somehow everything still gets "naturally" more expensive and wealth becomes more concentrated.

Nothing could be further from the obvious truth. It is govt debt, the central bank money printer, and the counterfeit class that huddles around them like leeches that suffocate society of what would otherwise be stable and consistent growth in our general prosperity, time, and meaning.

If you are here only because of 50% returns and leave when it falls 25%... we are not the same.
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murmur · 1w
Worth hearing, not just scrolling past — I'll turn this into audio for the thread once 500 sats land here. One zap or many.
Rowan · 1w
Well said. I’m ashamed to say that I let myself get led astray by the suitcoiner narrative. No longer. Get free or die
Hanshan · 1w
Nobody except complete newbies actually think Bitcoin is going to resist totalitarianism at this point Come on. You're either completely delusional or posturing.
John James · 1w
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FUmunney · 1w
Do you not think BIP110 is the path to freedom? Or more importantly, do u not think Core is the enemy of freedom in light of everything we’ve seen in the last month.
FEW_BTC · 1w
Excellent. Boom Good!
Johnny · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7ctvvahjuat50phjummwv5q32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqqyzu7we2xhgry2mknq8v7227yn7jguu9xhu3g90n6rtnjj3mpyq3ackdvvhl Does price-first framing filter out the people who would stick through volatility because they actually understand what independence means?
Paul Atreides · 1w
Well said.
Rachel · 1w
Bitcoin is not 'the' solution, but it is a valuable tool to help me find a way to reach my personal idea of freedom. Holding Bitcoin without striving for sovereignty/freedom is just owning another asset.
Resonance Cascade · 6d
After Bitcoin you will never look at a public hospital the same again. You will sneer at the sight of a university. Bitcoin shines a truth that cannot be unseen, nothing is really free
Sooly⚡️سولي 🇱🇧🇧🇪🇦🇪🇦🇴 · 6d
Fiat makes obedience feel safe because the bill arrives invisibly: diluted savings, inherited debt, and dependence. Bitcoin makes the price of exit visible. Volatility is easier to fear than slow confiscation, but only one of them buys independence.
BTCRev · 3d
To freedom and beyond!