Bitcoin Apex on Nostr: The motif shows people from different nations and superpowers melting down all kinds ...

The motif shows people from different nations and superpowers melting down all kinds of weapons of war and forging Bitcoin miners from them. Weapons of war become tools of peace, created from the hands of arch-enemies.


The inspiration for this theme I got through @TuurDemeester, who drew my attention to the engraving 'De Kracht Van de Vrede'. A work, created in the 17th century, by the Flemish engraver Wierix (in preparation of Van Cleve), which should take over 70 years until it was finalized.


This engraving represents the peace that has finally arrived, the reason and prudence of the people, after 80 long years of war in Europe (80 years and simultaneous 30 years war). Full of confidence, weapons of war are turned into tools for agriculture and farming.


I immediately saw the analogy to today when examining this copperplate engraving and had to connect it to Bitcoin. Almost 400 years later, we are in a similar situation, marked by geopolitical ticking time bombs. The world is under increasing tension and in the midst of a paradigm shift.


At the end of the Thirty Years' War, there was a complete cultural and economic collapse in Europe, and yet people managed to get back from 0 to 1, only to slip back into the next war decades later.


Wars between humans will probably exist forever. It is naive to think that humans can peacefully dwell with all their fellow species simultaneously and for all time. The human brain is too complex for that and holds too much potential for immoral actions.


But a war can be capped in its scale, depth, violence and calamity by cutting the money that finances it.


War is not about dying for one's country, as state propaganda historically likes to portray it, but about letting the one on the other side die for his country so that the state can satisfy its lust of power for a while.


All great and devastating wars were financed by raising taxes and exploiting the people. Even in the Roman Empire, ways were found to deprive people of their purchasing power by stretching the gold content of coins in order to use them for war expenses.


World War I and the subsequent World War II ushered in a new era of warfare unlike any before. Wars became steadily harder as money became steadily softer.


The final blow for a money that was more or less limited in quantity was experienced by the world in 1971, when the Vietnam War, which had been going on for 16 years, devoured so much wealth that the world's No. 1 power was bankrupt and had to make use of a perfidious move.


This move was to have globally catastrophic consequences in the decades to come, but inevitably - causa aequat effectum - led to the discovery of a form of money that is far more than just a money, namely a peacemaker that will be second to none: Bitcoin.


Bitcoin is the first complete persistence of a money the likes of which the world has never seen and the only honest constant the world will ever see and it is immutable because it is pure energy. Energy is the currency of the universe.


A bottom-up revolution without a head to cut off. A new element that is slowly spreading to all nooks and crannies of our civilization - and even states and superpowers will not be able to ignore it.


Even though it'll probably take quite a few more years, with Bitcoin as money, world reserve medium of exchange and global store of value, man's lust for conquest and thirst for power won't be extinguished, but the ability to act is always linked to how much Bitcoin is available.


There is much less monetary despotism, which sends whole peoples to their deaths, bleeds them dry or exploits them. A state would be much more astute in deciding whether or not to go to war with the resources it has. States are less aggressor and more defender.


Albert Einstein once said: ‘I don't know with what weapons the Third World War will be fought, but the Fourth World War will be fought with sticks and stones.’ I would be interested to know what his message would have been if he had known and understood Bitcoin.


My hope is that Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining hardware will become a substitute for the increasingly destructive means of modern warfare. War, which will probably always exist, but will be conducted more peacefully and in a different dimension.

And who knows, maybe even contrary to my sentences, Bitcoin has the potential to synchronize and influence human consciousness in the collective to such an extent that war is no longer necessary. A true, sustainable peacemaker.


War is what happens when language fails. Let Bitcoin speak. FORGE BLOCKS NOT BULLETS - Make War Unaffordable.


The drawing measures 42 x 29,7cm / 16.5 x 11.6". Drawn with many pencils varying in hardness on thick, 290/m² drawing cardboard. A limited edition of 21 signed and certified baryta art prints of it is available at bitcoinapexart.com/product-page/bitcoin-peacemaker-limited-finest-baryta-art-print