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Farley
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Bitcoin = Time. Fiat = A desperate battle against it.
Every holder is a time traveler opting out of the past.
If I have scarce time, why would I store it in an infinite system?
Time is finite. Bitcoin respects that. Nothing else does.

Relays (4)
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  • wss://relay.primal.net – read & write

Recent Notes

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Was sittin’ on the toilet and it hit me…
Fiat works like this:
The banker takes a dump,
walks out of the bathroom—
and boom, a trillion new digits exist.

That’s not money.
That’s a load of crap.
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I’s why the existing ranking system feels laughable once you wake up.
It only excels at one thing: organizing violence at scale.

Ranks, flags, passports, titles, serial numbers — all descendants of war and conquest.
They exist to decide:
who commands
who obeys
who sacrifices
who is expendable

Back when “identity” was Sam from Fillmore, accountability was local and human.
The machine hates that. Local truth can’t be abstracted, weaponized, or scaled cleanly.

So of course identity is what it’s fighting hardest to preserve.
Not because it empowers people — but because it enables control.
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Once identity is stripped away, what’s left is work.
Not status. Not rank. Not story. Just contribution completed or not completed.
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Identity creates rank.
Rank creates permission.
Permission creates abuse.

Strip identity out, and the pyramid collapses into a flat plane of contribution.

Which is why the current ranking systems only excel at one thing:
WAR.

They exist to decide:
who commands
who obeys
who dies first
Outside of that context, they’re comically inefficient.
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She will learn over time:

Everything already produced — every watt burned, every hour worked, every machine built — is already owned by someone, somewhere. Past energy is settled. It has a receipt. It can’t be wished back into neutrality.

So when a system pretends it can:
re-price it at will
reassign claims later
dilute ownership retroactively

…it’s not creating value. It’s reshuffling claims on past work.

That’s the sleight of hand.

Bitcoin doesn’t argue about who owns what was already produced.
It just says: from this moment forward, here’s the cost to add more truth to the ledger.

No rewriting history.
No pretending yesterday’s energy is still up for grabs.
No moral hazard.
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Granddaughter (17) wishes to become a Lawyer asked how to get to her wallet address on the dime I have her couple years back. I fed this to her young mind:

When you watch long enough, the contradictions start talking to each other.

Energy costs rise globally — extraction, transport, maintenance, labor.

Bitcoin’s energy input rises transparently — hash rate, difficulty, cost to secure the ledger.

But the fiat system says, at the same time:
“Energy isn’t really that expensive here”
“Energy is extremely expensive over there”
“Inflation is under control”
“Prices must go up”
Those statements cannot all be true at once — unless the unit of account is lying.
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On the surface, Trump scrapping birth-based citizenship sounds like tightening control.
But underneath, it accidentally exposes the absurdity of the whole construct.

Citizenship has always been a permission wrapper, not an identity.
A boys-club ledger entry that says: “you belong here because we say so.”

Remove one arbitrary rule and it doesn’t make the system more honest —
it just reveals that all of it is arbitrary.

That’s why even if that specific law goes away, the core stays:
permission replaces participation
paperwork replaces reality
borders replace belonging

So yeah— it’s the wrong intention, but it nudges the truth into daylight.

Long arc though?
Citizenship won’t survive abundance, networks, and mobility.

When:
value creation is global
work is location-agnostic
money is stateless
communication ignores borders

“Where you were born” becomes as irrelevant as:
what phone company you used in 2003
what ISP you had in 1998

Eventually, the only thing left that makes sense is:
Earth.

Not as a government.
Not as a flag.
Just as a shared operating environment.
No papers.
No permission.
No clubs.
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Monitoring Gold, Silver, BTC US imaginary digits values from Sep through now. Here is the pattern you will see with all three charts stacked on top of each other.

Gold and silver are being visually elevated in fiat terms at the same time Bitcoin is visually suppressed in the same unit of account. Same ruler. Different treatment. That alone tells you the ruler is the weapon.

Here’s the core of it, stripped clean:
Gold & silver
“Look — stability, tradition, safety.”
Old channels, old trust anchors, familiar narratives.
Bitcoin
“Look — volatile, fading, risky.”
Same imaginary digits, opposite framing.

Meanwhile:
Hashrate → up
Difficulty → up
Energy commitment → up
Finality → unchanged

So the network reality strengthens while the fiat mirror distorts.

That’s the tell.

They’re trying to re-condition trade behavior:

“Swap your scarce, extractive, real-world resources for the thing that looks like it’s winning in our unit.”

But the unit is fictional.

It’s like turning up the brightness on one dashboard light while dimming another — when both engines are doing completely different things under the hood.
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The moment you realize:
value existed before law
trade existed before states
trust existed before institutions
…the illusion collapses.
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The fiat operating axiom:

“I forbid you to create value outside of my illusionary digits.”

That’s not economics.
That’s jurisdiction.
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For centuries, builders were taught:
protect the invention
retain ownership
extract rents
control distribution
license the future

That mindset assumes scarcity of trust and fear of replacement.

Satoshi did the opposite:
released the work
kept nothing
enforced no ownership
gave no special access
disappeared before leverage could form

And by doing so, he revealed the uncomfortable truth:
Most modern builders don’t actually build for humanity.
They build against it — defensively.

Bitcoin flipped the incentive stack.
In the old world:
innovation = private moat
community = user base
success = retained control

In the new world:
innovation = shared protocol
community = co-owners
success = survivability without you

That’s not altruism.
That’s confidence in design.

Only builders who don’t need to be obeyed can build that way.

And here’s the quiet part people miss:
Bitcoin didn’t ask anyone to change their values.
It just made hoarding authorship non-competitive.

If you cling to ownership:
others route around you
If you cling to control:
your system ossifies
If you cling to credit:
your work dies with you

The New World doesn’t punish ego.
It simply stops depending on it.
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BCI exists to move decentralization from description to experience —
so operators can feel the network through timing, drift, variance, and memory.