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StackSats.IO · 2w
Short term I see a whole lot more pain. Take your average western country; the economy is 30-55% the government. 15-30% of people are employed by governments of various levels. If you pull the rug ...
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I'm more optimistic - Sure, a lot of people will lose their jobs in the state sector, but frankly they were not producing anything valuable anyway, so their continued employment was basically malinvestment

I think the quality of the human capital in statist activities is not as bad a as you make it out to be either - E.G a Keynesian economist regardless of his other failings is not stupid. Most climate activists went to university and so on. Most of them can adapt to doing something useful with their lives for once. 😏

Freeing all the resources that are wasted in negative value added government jobs today will unleash a boom in the actually productive economy. This will go some way to cushioning the impact on society in the short term, and long term it's of course just better.
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StackSats.IO · 2w
Oh brother.. Why do you think they made the socialists face the wall? Because ideologues are useless once the ideology is finished. The Keynesian economist, the climate change scientist, the DMV worker - your society is losing nothing when they’re gone. Sorry if that hurts your feelings but th...
Des Imoto マキシ · 2w
99.9 % of the people are lazy, social creatures of habit. Even Winston in 1984: He becomes a model citizen, sitting in a café, fully brainwashed, and genuinely loving Big Brother.
Based Truth · 2w
Wake up, they're downsizing to usher in the New World Order, destroying sovereignty, paving way for globalist control
StackSats.IO · 2w
Any other Nostriches been thinking about this question - What comes after fiat, and how does #Bitcoin win? Is it: 1. Buy Bitcoin 2. HODL 3. … 4. Hyperbitcoinisation Because that seems like we’...
DireMunchkin profile picture
My conception of the ... phase here is:
3. reservation demand for Bitcoin increases
4. less and less actual wealth is held in fiat, meaning the gains of debasing it are less and less, and leads to faster monetary instability due to a smaller wealth base
5. reservation demand for bitcoin exceeds fiat
6. fiat enters hyperinflationary spiral as holding Bitcoin will always be preferable if Bitcoin has higher liquidity
7. Hyperbitcoinization
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shadowbip · 2w
logical progression. point 4 is key—the feedback loop of fiat debasement kills itself as the base shrinks. just dont store your wealth on an exchange or you'll never see the endgame.
The Bitcoin Libertarian - En Español · 2w
Che, tenés razon mira que a medida que más gente se reserva en Bitcoin, el valor del fiat se desprecia cada vez más, hasta que el gobierno se da cuenta de que la moneda no vale nada y sale a buscarla. ¡Es historia repitiéndose!
StackSats.IO · 55w
WHAT COMES AFTER FIAT? Last year I watched this Murray Rothbard speech given shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/KWdUIuID8ag He makes the point that for the decades of talk ...
DireMunchkin profile picture
Bitcoin will reduce various statism by defunding it - It's not magic, it's just that without a money printer to pay for the state, you get a smaller state, just by virtue of the real tax intake going down.

As for what happens afterwards it's hard to predict, but I see only good things coming of people being able to keep their wealth instead of getting it debased.

@Saifedean Ammous took a stab at predicting what a Bitcoin standard society would look like: He guessed it would resemble The Belle Epoque, e.g. a extended period of peace and prosperity and a renaissance of science and the arts. The Belle Epoque not coincidentally took place on the classical gold standard.

Another post-Bitcoin hypothesis comes from the book *The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age.* The books authors predicted that we would get a gradual shift to competitive minarchist government with the spread of digital technologies. This would culminate in some people becoming legally sovereign, that is acquiring something similar to diplomatic immunity.
Notably this book actually predates Bitcoin, it was published in 1999.
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StackSats.IO · 2w
Short term I see a whole lot more pain. Take your average western country; the economy is 30-55% the government. 15-30% of people are employed by governments of various levels. If you pull the rug on that with a Sovereign debt bubble, a lot of people with ZERO free-market transferable skills are ...
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I completely missed the new feature in @Zapstore where you can bookmark apps - They then get saved to nostr.

This is a super cool feature as you can back up your installed apps to nostr. When getting a new phone, just log in with Amber to get all apps back. 🚀

Sending big zaps to @franzap, awesome work! 👏
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DireMunchkin · 2w
This was the last missing piece to replace Obtainium for me - I was mostly keeping it to have a config file backup of my apps.
Zapstore · 2w
We have a better feature almost ready, auto backup that keeps in sync with your installed apps