sovereignbeef on Nostr: Funny when people point out that the BTC in the SBR is stolen. Maybe they are ...
Funny when people point out that the BTC in the SBR is stolen. Maybe they are unfamiliar with statism.
NOTHING the government is in possession of rightly belongs to them. Every piece of property they hold was stolen or bought with stolen money. From the assets on their balance sheet to the land their buildings stand on, it is all pelf.
The only thing the government truly owns is a monopoly on violence in which they wield to acquire that which they possess.
Any reserve held by the government must be the result of acquisition via violence or the threat of violence. It is the very nature of the state to operate in such a way.
The state is unlikely aware that Bitcoin adoption is the first true threat to neutralizing its monopoly on violence in a way that one day may prevents its ability to steal from its citizens. My hope is that decisions like the SBR make it impossible to stop that scenario by the time they realize it.
The Libertarian point of view that wants to prevent any increase in state power fails to consider the nature of Bitcoin’s democratization of power. Sometimes by making your enemy strong in the short term, you make him weak in the long term.
NOTHING the government is in possession of rightly belongs to them. Every piece of property they hold was stolen or bought with stolen money. From the assets on their balance sheet to the land their buildings stand on, it is all pelf.
The only thing the government truly owns is a monopoly on violence in which they wield to acquire that which they possess.
Any reserve held by the government must be the result of acquisition via violence or the threat of violence. It is the very nature of the state to operate in such a way.
The state is unlikely aware that Bitcoin adoption is the first true threat to neutralizing its monopoly on violence in a way that one day may prevents its ability to steal from its citizens. My hope is that decisions like the SBR make it impossible to stop that scenario by the time they realize it.
The Libertarian point of view that wants to prevent any increase in state power fails to consider the nature of Bitcoin’s democratization of power. Sometimes by making your enemy strong in the short term, you make him weak in the long term.