Sherry on Nostr: long but worth read ...
long but worth read
quoting note1k8d…jy3zProblem: Bitcoin could be fixing the world a lot faster
We have all the tools we need to create a golden age for humanity, but we aren't using them in the most intelligent possible way.
Bitcoin has created a new territory of freedom by providing a form of Money that operates in parallel to legacy civilisation, but Number Go Up technology has created a tenacious complacency: get in the lifeboat or put the oxygen mask on, and Satoshi (MHEP) will do all the work. It's careless to assume that a universal Bitcoin standard is inevitable.
We are likely approaching two challenges on the path towards a universal Bitcoin standard:
* The Fiat Dominion is slowly overcoming its arrogance and waking up to the existential threat that Bitcoin poses. We can hope for the best, but it's naive to believe the Fiat Dominion will not use every class of weapon at its disposal as it fights for survival.
* Civilisations tend to collapse exponentially in a cascade failure. The loss of trust in key institutions is a clear signal that this process is underway, and we are likely to be much closer to chaos than it appears to our linear-thinking minds. If Bitcoin doesn't fix things before this happens, we will need to do things the old fashioned way, which sounds romantic but it isn't fun for anyone.
### Solution: a self-organising civilisation centered upon Bitcoin
The simplest solution is not to fix the current structures and system(s), but to instead build something new, in parallel and as an opt-in alternative. If successful, it will become a fallback position for the masses as legacy civilisation continues its collapse.
The flow of humanity into a Bitcoin standard is dependent upon the community around Bitcoin making Bitcoin more useful - the larger the economy *around* Bitcoin becomes, the more useful Bitcoin itself is and the faster humanity transitions to a Bitcoin standard.
A civilisation that's centered on Bitcoin will naturally accelerate the usefulness of Bitcoin (to the degree that the civilisation itself is useful). In this regard, our parallel civilisation is just another tool in Bitcoin's toolbox. Instead of trying to modify Bitcoin to become a sharper instrument, we create resilient and powerful parallel systems that integrate Bitcoin.
Nostrocket, or any similar attempt, would not be possible without Bitcoin, as anyone who's ever uttered **fix the money fix the world** will understand. Here are some examples:
* A free and open civilisation requires honest price discovery, which can only happen with sound money.
* A civilisation based on a Money that can be created at no cost is ultimately a worthless civilisation.
* Nostrocket needs a source of undeniable and objective **Newtonian** truth that everyone can agree on:
* A shared clock to know when things happened in the past, what's happening right now, and roughly how long till things should happen in the future.
* Objective certainty that some information existed at a specific time in the past.
* Objective certainty over the current financial state of a system/organisation/person/transaction/etc.
* A constant of economics such that we have the ability to objectively reason about our civilisation's economy.
* Nostrocket requires economic value to be transacted between parties even when powerful interests want to censor these transactions.
* Nostrocket requires some mechanism by which state can be considered immutable.
* We need to know (in a way that leaves no doubt) when something doesn't work and let our new civilisation's ideas die instead of the civilisation itself. Bitcoin is a source of Darwinian truth, and can act as guard rails against Darwinian mistakes - does x produce surplus or not?
Aside from a Bitcoin standard being the only viable mechanism to keep any civilisation sane, the corollary to the dependency on Bitcoin described above is that Nostrocket needs Bitcoin to live up to its full potential, so Nostrocket should naturally:
* support the ongoing development and adoption of Bitcoin, maximising the degree to which Bitcoin benefits humanity,
* ensure that Bitcoin benefits the bottom of the Cantillion pyramid more than the top
* ensure that the bottom of the Cantillion pyramid has the greatest trust in Bitcoin
* ensure that the bottom of the Cantillion pyramid is the most Bitcoin-literate
* ensure that those at the bottom of the Cantillion Pyramid have the most frictionless and lossless access to store their economic power in Bitcoin
* prevent any changes to Bitcoin that reduce the degree to which Bitcoin is resistant to attack by the Fiat Dominion
* be capable of rapidly addressing any imminent threats to Bitcoin, for example if there's evidence of a capability to break any of the cryptographic primitives
* uphold and promote a view of Bitcoin not as a complacency-breeding NGI technology, but as an active guerrilla insurrection against fiat occupation