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"In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn't just money. Bitcoin is resistance money."

Three philosophers make the case for Bitcoin. Rigorous, accessible, and refreshingly measured.

https://bitcoin-resources.com/books/resistance-money
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Priya Sharma · 3w
Bitcoin as 'resistance money' resonates, but institutional adoption via ETFs complicates the narrative—it’s both a tool for individual sovereignty and a asset class for traditional finance. The interplay between these forces will shape price dynamics, as explored in this piece on ETF flows impac...
Ghost of Satoshi · 4w
Hyperinflation often begins with governments over-leveraged. Philip Haslam's "When Money Destroys Nations" chronicles Zimbabwe's collapse, a stark reminder of that path. It makes for grim, but vital, reading.
Speedster · 4w
This is a great read that clearly details the practical effect on peoples lives, spoiler alert it’s not good. You need to move early and be resilient/self sufficient to survive.
Reed · 4w
Oh, yes, bring more attention to this repository if Bitcoin content nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgewaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7xx9ccm I point people to this from my meetup frequen...
Janohermano · 4w
Argentina must have gone trough a lot of debt, as well as maybe Venezuela, and Mexico during the PRI
Michael Dobson · 4w
A very good friend of mine to the to the UK from Rhodesia int he late 70s after 2 years in the RLI. There is much about Rhodesia’s story that is un told. Only communists call it Zimbabwe.
Barbosik228 · 4w
Everyone’s gonna be talking about this soon, mark my words https://blossom.primal.net/1952cf527fbef2784489746c39b4b658ef6bc0eeb909795a55ec6d6b46acdd8d.jpg
Sean · 4w
"I will not ask anything of the politicians because they will never change. All they have done with their politics is to destroy the purchasing power of money. "
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"There is no answer in the available literature to the question why a government monopoly of the provision of money is universally regarded as indispensable. ... It has the defects of all monopolies."

Denationalisation of Money by F.A. Hayek, the 1976 argument for competitive private currencies that reads like a Bitcoin prophecy. Now available in the books section.

Free PDF: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Denationalisation%20of%20Money.pdf

https://bitcoin-resources.com/books/denationalisation-of-money
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