If You Are Against Bitcoin, You Are Against Freedom

This might be speaking to the choir but this is becoming more evident by the day. We see a host of individuals and entities coming out against Bitcoin. Are they for freedom or serfdom?

I think the answer is obvious.

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When you have people like Senator Elizabeth Warren coming out against Bitcoin, you know what the answer to the above question is.

"Cryptocurrency has created opportunities to scam investors, assist criminals, and worsen the climate crisis," she said. "The threats posted by crypto show that Congress and federal regulators can't continue to hide out, hoping that crypto will go away. It won't. It's time to confront these issues head-on."

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Of course she has to throw the climate crisis in there. That is how they garner a unified front against Bitcoin. After all, if you love your children you cannot support Bitcoin.

As we know, recently El Salvador passed legislation that made Bitcoin legal tender in that country. This, naturally, got a call from the powers that are. First the IMF showed up to, presumably, voice their dissent. Then we saw the United States State Department chiming in that El Salvador better regulate it (no word on the what else was but we can conclude it was there).

Does this sound like freedom to you? Or is this more in line with tyranny?

Private, Cryptographically Secured Money

This is something that should not be overlooked. When talking about freedom, we need to take it to every level. In this discussion, we are obviously referring to money.

When trying to move away from totalitarianism, it is important that people have control over their lives. This is the entire point of Bitcoin.

Those who speak out against it, no matter what their justification, are calling for totalitarianism. There is no other way to look at it. Either you are with us, or against us. There is no middle group.

Calls of this nature are effectively wanting to cede control over every single transaction in one's life, every interaction, and the freedom to buy what one desires over to the State. Certainly this is in line with the thinking of Senator Warren.

Bitcoin, as well as other cryptocurrency, prevents this. Here we see the ability for people to opt for what they want. The State is not in the middle of every transaction. In contract, this is more in line with Freedom.

CBDCs: Programmable Money For Governments

Almost every nation in the world is looking into Central Bank Digital Currencies. They are going to be sold as a pathway to UBI, which they probably will be. It also is one that brings us on the road to serfdom.

China is not known for having an open government that is concerned about freedom. Instead, it is recognized for the tyrannical way it wields power. Is it any surprise that this was the first one to jump onto the CBDC bandwagon?

The most recent action was to ban miners. Did the Chinese government do this because they were concerned about Bitcoin miners carbon footprint? No way. The CCP could care less about that. Its actions were simply because Bitcoin posed a threat.

After all, a country like that cannot have private, cryptographically secured money filtering throughout the population. That would cause them headaches they do not want. Instead, everyone is going to have to use the digital Yuan, something they fully control.

We can presume that Senator Warren is envious of this. It would seem her hope is to bring that situation about here. After all, the State knows best.

The sad thing is tens of millions of people swallow this stuff. Of course, they, perhaps inadvertently, are against freedom and are opting for tyranny.

Senator Warren, along with others, point to the fact that Bitcoin is used in crimes. Well so are cars. Perhaps we should do away with them also. I know, it sounds stupid.

Let's go a layer worse and talk about air conditioning. People who commit crimes use air conditioning. Also, air conditioning uses an enormous amount of energy as compared to opening a window. Hence, since it is used by criminals and is energy intensive, perhaps we need to careful look at doing away with it.

After all, why should the comfort of people matter? It is the moral interpretation set down by the State that is important. If something is energy intensive, it is bad for the environment.

The list could also be amended to include clothes dryers, refrigerators, airplanes, manufacturing facilities, and roads. Do you think Senator Warren uses anything of those (or items from them)?

No matter how absurd this seems, I can assure you it is well within the realm of what is taking place here. Discussions like these rarely operate at the level they frame them. The matter with Bitcoin has little to do with energy and all about control.

The likes of Senator Warren, Elon Musk, and Mitch McConnell if he knew what a computer was, are not on the side of freedom. Their ilk is all about controlling the masses, delivering their edicts upon what people can do.

With Bitcoin, as well as other cryptocurrencies, their power diminishes. Their goal is to be able to control every transaction, every interaction, and know everything about what people are doing. That is their main intention.


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Well the reason i'd disagree with this is because i support blockchain tech but i don't see where that is only relational to bitcoin. I wouldn't say i speak out against bitcoin but i tell the truth on bitcoin.

So a few issues i have with your conclusive statement is that bitcoin has to represent freedom. I'm not sure if thats necessarily true. I would say so far bitcoin has produced many positive ideas about what our future systems could look like but it's also created some problems.

So first let's take the U.S. government. So we know anything that potentially challenges or could challenge the us dollar is an enemy to the united states. The us dollar is part of our national security. if the dollar becomes this less valuable thing well we're already in trouble with production and manufacturing so we'd be in alot of trouble if the dollar is compromised. So it's really no way around that if the us govt wants to exist on the level they have and some may say well they shouldn't and they should'nt have the power they have under the us dollar.

However let's be honest about bitcoin. We don't really truly know who's behind it. We don't know if its truly a benevolent creation or that its founders were benevolent. We really don't know that. We assume it is. I think its a trojan horse honestly and i can tell you some reasons why. That make sense to me.

Another thing some of bitcoin critics aren't all the govt or enemies of the people. Some are just posing valid questions and valid theories like where the heck did bitcoin come from. Some believe it was russians or the cia or whomever but what is funny is that all these countries fear btc and begin to ban it but the us govt is just now acting a bit concerned which is weird seeing that the us govt could have came up with anything by now to ban btc just like they start false wars etc., but now all of a sudden you all believe that the us govt would be absolutely fine with this and take this long to create a bs story as to why it shouldn't exist as if the cia would be this dumb. Thats the part i don't buy.

The other part is its not that im against btc or trying to harm it if its a good thing.. The problem is i'm not trying to harm it or help it until i got a more complete picture what it is and whom started it. Its many reasons bitcoin could exist maybe beyond our knowledge base right now and some of the theories are very good but at the same time the nature of bitcoin is quite mysterious.. vitalik runs the second biggest crypto if bitcoin went away its not like ethereum wouldn't take its place adn vitalik isn't on a hitlist yet or has been so this secrecy of btc for me is more harmful than helpful.

interesting videos for reference adn there are tons of videos and info and theories about btc that aren't good but that doesn't mean the people who find the info or present it are bad people or people against freedom i just feel almost like its gotta be a false conclusive statement how you formulated it:

so this is an interesting video about putin and bitcoin

this is one you probably heard with Dan Pena that i thought was interesting

We can jump from one theory to another but i'm a big skeptic unless things really do a good job of making sense and one thing that always made sense to me is that there was no way the us govt would let something like bitcoin exist. People still are naive and think the us govt can't stop bitcoin. i think that is incredibly naive and not accurate. The government can't stop illegal drugs but you probably aren't going to ever use them or it lol.

So i don't agree with your statements and i dont think they have anything to do with freedom. To me freedom doesn't look like 87% of the network controlled by like 1% of the people and many cryptos look surprisingly similar to that so i believe we can find freedom in blockchain technology .. i believe we can find teh right to vote and the freedom to select our government through id systems that are going to work well and be used on the blockchain.. i believe we can find freedom in the sense of economic prosperity on the blockchain.. but none of this has to occur in bitcoin. Bitcoin could have just as easily been a first layer trojan horse to stop the inevitable rise of blockchain and crypto.. i'm just saying.. i saw the matrix movies and the entire movie.. spoiler alert look away" if you haven't seen the movies lol.

The entire movie is about a prophecy of a chosen one who is created by the system of control to usher in more control to create revolutions and revolts and system resets they can control that are going to happen anyway. I just want you all to think about that. I"m not saying bitcoin is that.. i am saying we should be careful and i dont think conclusive statements like not accepting bitcoin makes you anti freedom is appropriate or accurate.. maybe its accurate for the bitcoin maximalist or people holding bitcoin who makeup that 1% who owns 87% of the network but it doesn't sit well with me and it doesn't represent enough of the people to be the voice of the people in my humble opinion.

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I follow Dan closely but I wouldn’t put 2 much on his bitcoin tales. He talks about mining power and location of hash power and makes it sound like he’s talking about where it was “invented” Dan is great if u wanna do QLA but he’s definitely into going full clickbait on things like bitcoin. I just think two things can be true. “
Well the reason i'd disagree with this is because i support blockchain tech but i don't see where that is only relational to bitcoin. I wouldn't say i speak out against bitcoin but i tell the truth on bitcoin”. It’s think u can be right on blockchain and our author above can still be right on bitcoin.

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It’s think u can be right on blockchain and our author above can still be right on bitcoin.

Absolutely and vice versa.. I think that's the point that we should be allowed to ask the question. We don't know anything about Satoshi at all besides what he or someone else wrote.. or several people wrote in some documentation presented in the early 2009's maybe up to 2011 if my memory serves me correct. I agree Dan Pena in my opinion doesn't know alot about bitcoin either.. the thing though is he's stumbled unto theories many others have had about the origins of bitcoin or what it could be.

It is very suspicious the us govt hasn't acted against bitcoin provided you believe every other theory out there about false wars and " The Creature From Jekyll Island" etc.. etc.. The problem is when you focus on bitcoin to this degree as the beacon that locks your ability to think outside that box. That's a big problem in that as i said bitcoin still has many problems its still following suit in the corporatist model in our fake version of capitalism. it still has like 1% of wallstreet and people who enslaving teh system controlling it.. if that changes great.. it hasn't changed yet doesn't look like it is as of yet but i'm willing to be open to the idea it could be these benevolent things. To conclude it is though i think we're a million miles away from that.

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It's true and yet, I've personally struggled with the DOGE, Cumrocket phase. I'm for free markets, but sheesh.

It was a good wake up call to realize although I acknowledge everyone's right to buy what they want, it sure feels annoying. lol

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Senator Warren obviously has her own agenda and its not the same one we want in the crypto community. To them, its more about the money and its why the people who agree with her want BTC transactions to be reversible. I obviously think its a dumb idea and they are just trying their best to hold power.

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Senator Warren certainly has interests that are different from what we are after. There is no doubt her views are different than what will lead to freedom.

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CBDCs: Programmable Money For Governments

Couldn't name these better.

It's obvious the governments and oligarch elites are against Bitcoin, although some are probably secretly stacking, because it's against their totalitarian plans.

Bitcoin hasn't been designed to serve them thus no love for Bitcoin. The road is not gonna be easy but at this point, crypto is one of the few tools left for humanity to take its freedom back.

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They are going to keep trying to stamp out Bitcoin and all else in the crypto industry. This is going to lead to us having to take a more aggressive approach ourselves in all we do. It is a battle.

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I still want that sweet UBI money to pad my crypto portfolio. 😁

I think that's part of the beauty of it all. Just like the 1% are supporting BTC in pursuit of controlling it, so will go the state. Their own greed and pursuit of power is the very means of their undoing.

The harder they struggle the harder the fall.

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UBI is going to get a lot of discussion if technological unemployment really starts to happen. We are going to see the state try to remain relevant.

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UBI is going to cause horrid issues. I actually think we’d be able to buy less in this case.it will cause massive issues that aren’t worth it anyway. I’d rather buy with my own cash and keep price lower instead of full on UBI insanity and the hell that will bring faster. At least if it takes longer we can save and build over longer period. full on real UBI will just speed it up so much the other issues aren’t worth the pain. I think many are underestimating what the USA loosing reserve status will be like. It will be hell here for a few years. I hope we end up with more time before full on UBI. But we are half way there so 🤷🏼‍♂️ we’ll see.

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I don’t think the issues will arise from UBI so much as the method by which it’s implemented, but I do agree we’re headed for serious change in some form.

Automation used to mean unskilled labor had to find another unskilled job, but now those jobs are disappearing so I don’t think it’s a bad idea to have some kind of social system in place to handle the transition from worker to entrepreneur (whatever form that takes going forward), but the way UBI will most likely come to be will also open the door for government to seize more control.

Generally, though, everything comes with an up side and a down side so hopefully people will get a clue and see what’s coming..., but I doubt it. People are lazy and happy to hand over control if it means they get to stay on the couch for the 15th rerun of Friends.

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“ but the way UBI will most likely come to be will also open the door for government to seize more control.“

exactly
I agree 100 💯

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Thank you for so clearly stating the case for freedom! I long for an America where it is Independence Day every day. !BBH

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Anyone who tells you bitcoin is bad, is either ignorant or evil.

Let's go a layer worse and talk about air conditioning...

Seriously, they will not focus on the goods but only the bad. Fiat is already used for money laundering and several other illegal activities so we must stop using it according to their logic.

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Those speaking up against bitcoin / crypto in general in this manner, clearly have their own agenda (or are blind sheeple, make your pick). That's how I see it.


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Well the sheeple follow. So it is obvious that those with the agenda keep pushing it out and the sheeple swallow it all.

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Those in power yes 💯 but I think we should be carful to assume any critical is doing so for a agenda. Smart and moral peii you ope can disagree. But I think ur right on the state actors and politicians for sure

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