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Just finished reading The Genesis Book by
Aaron van Wirdum (npub1art…m0w5)I knew the gist of the history, but this book really put it all together in a fascinating way.
Personally, my take away is this:
It's clear that the people who built the foundations for Bitcoin understood one thing very well:
Bureaucrats would never accommodate / allow for the existence of what they wanted to build.
They knew that if they built it, and it worked, the bureaucrats would eventually come for them.
Now it's working.
And I think we'd do well to remember this, and remind new people of this insight that was so well understood by those early pioneers:
No amount pandering will suffice.
If what we want is freedom and decentralized money, we are fundamentally at odds with the most powerful people in the world.
They will not allow us to fit in, not for as long as the tool we have at our disposal has the ability the shift the balance of power.
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