Well right, but if you don't participate in the politics, then you aren't being political. If politics is how we participate in decision making and you don't participate-you don't make a decision-how can it be political? You can't be moving and still at the same time.
By that premise, then sure Bitcoin is a decision making machine. But it's literally only machines doing the decision making. I don't decide that ocean finds the next block, ant finds the one after that, and I find the one after that. No one does.
It's an organization of sorts-of transactions-but to my initial point, the participation in that unit of account only enables the individuals to participate in every other aspect of their lives. If we didn't live in this shit storm, it wouldn't be political and neither would sex, gender, the climate. All of that shit got thrown in and manipulated in order to manipulate us. It made those things political that it gave other people the ability to manipulate us.
Bitcoin can't manipulate. It can't be manipulated. If everything is political, then yes, Bitcoin is political. But in the world outside of that purview, it's just a store of value and medium of exchange. It's just money.
Fiat is political. Bitcoin is the abstention from politics.
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2025-04-15 05:00:31
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