A Short Note to the Bitcoin Community: This Is the Time

A Short Note to the Bitcoin Community: This Is the Time

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I’m not sure how much of the Bitcoin community I reach, but I think this is an important moment for us, and I want to get this out. Please pass it along if you see it as useful. Thanks.

Threat Over, Time to Get Busy

The Bitcoin XT effort seems to be over. I opposed it for two primary reasons:

  1. It was sold through fear. That always drives me away. Fear is our enemy.
  2. It smelled of Elite Capture. The people driving XT were hanging out with the elite crowd and saying things that made a lot of us twitch.

Be that as it may, those people seem to have pulled back; battle over for now.

Our problems, however, remain. Bitcoin does not possess God-given perfection; it’s a technology… and it needs to be upgraded. In fact, it may need to be upgraded several times. That’s just the way technology is, and it falls to us to handle it well or poorly. So, here’s my one, short message:

This is the time to improve Bitcoin without succumbing to Elite Capture.

I’m not going to tell you what upgrades are required. Those of you involved need to deduce those yourselves. What I will tell you is this: Bitcoin needs to scale, and it’s our turn to be the adults. (Here’s a lecture where I explain further.) We need to get ready for the future, and this is the right time for it.

To the Developers:

Now I’m going to give you some advice.

I am in no position to tell you anything, but I do have perspective. In other words, I’m older and have been involved with digital currencies and general internet radicalism longer. So, take this for what it’s worth, but please do consider it:

  1. Go back to your principles. Whatever it is that brought you here, go back to it. (Aristotle, Rothbard, the Gospels, the Torah, whatever.) Refocus yourself on the most fundamental factors.
  2. Reread the original cypherpunk documents. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, and The Cyphernomicon are what produced Bitcoin. Go back and re-familiarize yourself with them.
  3. Get into cooperation. Think about the stupidity and destructiveness of status and dominance. Think about the beauty of co-dominant relationships. Think about the beauty of synergy and brotherhood.
  4. Get going. Planning is how people end up going nowhere. Break your inertia and move. Nothing will ever change until you do.
  5. Keep your eyes on the prize. And that prize is a Bitcoin that remains true to its nature while becoming massively scalable. Ignore stupidities and slights; move to the goal. The world needs a robust Bitcoin, even though many people still don’t realize it. We’re the only people who can do it.

Thus ends my message, aside from this: Make your time on Earth matter; make your 90-year-old self proud.

Peace.

Paul Rosenberg

[Editor’s Note: Paul Rosenberg is the outside-the-Matrix author of FreemansPerspective.com, a site dedicated to economic freedom, personal independence and privacy. He is also the author of The Great Calendar, a report that breaks down our complex world into an easy-to-understand model. Click here to get your free copy.]


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susanna

Dear Mr. Rosenberg,
Thank you for the advice.
What is it exactly? Strive to improve the bit-coin
system?
I am older, as you can probably guess. My thinking
is that our digital currency system is at great risk of
imploding v hacking, and eg, a lapse in electricity.
There is no way to persuade average persons to go
into a virtual currency, one also dependent on a secure
grid.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments re cooperation
of peoples and nations. Were that we could.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Psyop fail. Thanks anyway Mr. Rosenjoo

James the Wanderer

ANYONE can use a coin – they are not dependent on persons (the blind, ignorant, crippled and tormented can use them), they are not dependent on authority (any two willing persons, buyer and seller, can choose to use them), they are not dependent on ANYTHING outside the users and coin itself.
Can you figure out a way to make Bitcoin so resilient? That is, can two people without anything else (not a computer, not electric power, not an Internet) use it? THAT should be your goal. When you can figure out a way to make Bitcoin as resilient as ordinary coins, then you will have something worthwhile.

Slayer of Sacred Cows
Slayer of Sacred Cows

Bitcoin is incredibly resilient. It would take a global collapse of the internet to kill bitcoin (loss of faith notwithstanding as all value is subjective), and if we have a global collapse of the internet, all money won’t mean shit, at least until society gets back on track, and at that point, bitcoin will come back online as well.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Slurper of Sacred Cow Dung

Oh yeah, well what are we supposed to use till fukkin “society gets back on track” if we are DUMB enough to put our money into $hitcoins? I can absolutely rest sound at night with a gold or silver coin if that scenario were to come about. Your stupid ass would starve to death. You are still in the weeds junior.

Slayer of Sacred Cows
Slayer of Sacred Cows

Just because I advocate bitcoin doesn’t mean I’m opposed to pm’s. You really are a simple one.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Slurper of Sacred Cow Dung

NO mention of the value of having pm’s in your post. Next time include that info instead of glorifying $hitcoins, O’ simple one. It is all very SIMPLE, gold and silver is real money. $hitcoin not so much.

Slayer of Sacred Cows
Slayer of Sacred Cows

So? My only claim was that bitcoin is resilient, nothing more.

Slayer of Sacred Cows
Slayer of Sacred Cows

Instead of insulting me, why don’t you explain exactly why you think bitcoin is shit?

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