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2024-05-19 17:00:44

Hayek warned about government control of money in his 1944 book, 'The Road to Serfdom', and it rings true today with the continued attacks against Bitcoin and the cypherpunks pushing privacy solutions forward.
His basic argument was that government control of our economic lives amounts to totalitarianism. “Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest,” he wrote, “it is the control of the means for all our ends.”
Stay vigilant.

2024-04-04 01:45:39

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Whoa! I actually had no idea. Do I need to write where to "shoot here" manually?

2024-03-17 15:20:00

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What do you do in that closet!? There's so much room for activities! You should put a bounce house in there.

2024-03-14 14:36:21

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2024-02-23 05:07:13

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Nobody is even going to acknowledge how hilariously perfect the name 'Wikifreedia' is? I'm still laughing. Kudos @npub1l2v…ajft

2024-01-31 20:59:39

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Strict pullups? Seems like a lot. I say 1:5.

2024-01-20 21:44:58

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2024-01-09 15:03:11

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“The ultimate ends of the activities of reasonable beings are never economic. Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man.” - FA Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

2023-12-11 01:41:28

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This is an interesting take on the argument for why 'Bitcoin is inevitable' from Mises in 1932. This essay talks about how the powerful try to plan and organize and collude to maintain control (CBDC's), but free markets create inertia that can't be stopped. Eventually, the powerful must submit to the laws of economics just as they are subject to the laws of nature.
Inevitable doesn't mean we don't continue to build better technology around Bitcoin, orange pill our friends, or fight for freedom of speech and money. It simply means that market forces are very hard to stop, and Bitcoin solves very fundamental market problems. Inertia is on our side.
https://mises.org/library/myth-failure-capitalism

2023-10-13 19:39:30

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2023-09-08 19:02:59

This legend had some great one liners. If you haven't read any of his works, I highly recommend. Absurd, funny, and quite philosophical all in one go.
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2023-08-26 04:10:42

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2023-08-19 16:22:29

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I don't know if I am more blown away from how good this is, or that it is from 2015...pretty powerful

2023-08-15 17:54:11

I often reflect on this Hayek quote when thinking about Bitcoin and self custody. It is more work, but that is the burden of liberty, the cost of free money.
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2023-07-28 22:16:21

@npub1rxy…hnp8 you should do a tutorial on setting up Graphene OS.
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2023-07-26 19:41:50

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I think the more important question is, is this grassfed pilk? I hate to see all the industrial farming pickles just crammed in a jar. They need to be free to roam the countryside grazing and being...pickly.

2023-07-24 20:05:02

Getting some serious pre-teen calculator nostalgia from the timechain today...nice
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2023-07-11 02:33:59

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I got banned from r/surfing for posting that it was ridiculous to close beaches and make surfing illegal during the pandemic lockdowns. It will be interesting to be able to talk about surf again. You wouldn't think it should require a censorship resistant protocol to make that happen, but here we are...

2023-07-10 03:22:21

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2023-06-29 19:39:04

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2023-04-30 18:06:46

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My personal favorite quote from Hayek. Very relevant today as we continue to see bank collapses, inflation, and economic boom and bust cycles that are directly tied to centrally planned Federal Reserve policy. Be wary of organizations that rely on "smart" people making decisions for the rest of us.
Individuals are wildly unique, with different values and truths that ultimately drive human action. Emergent phenomena always win. Bitcoin understands this. Decentralized information shared across nodes, changed via consensus, trusting no authority.

2023-04-26 17:54:09

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Pubkey is clearly the best name for a bar... you win today.

2023-04-23 16:33:08

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2023-04-18 01:19:16

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Sounds great. It's like a charcuterie board pizza.

2023-04-14 16:41:47

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2023-04-07 19:46:24

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2023-04-05 03:46:09

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2023-04-05 03:45:03

There are people that were early to Bitcoin, and then there are people that were EARLY. Milton Friedman nailed it in 1999!

2023-03-31 16:52:04

Humbling to think about how these new technologies stand on the shoulders of giants. Thanks to the OG Cypherpunks.
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2023-03-24 18:20:07

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2023-03-16 04:24:00

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Reminds me of the infinite wisdom of FA Hayek, who understood much of Bitcoin ahead if its time. A less frequently used quote of his from The Road to Serfdom, “The ultimate ends of the activities of reasonable beings are never economic. Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man.”

2023-03-15 13:39:23

“The ultimate ends of the activities of reasonable beings are never economic. Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man.” ― FA Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

2023-03-08 05:02:54

“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.” - FA Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

2023-03-04 21:13:27

“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something they can’t stop.” FA Hayek