erikcason
Erik Cason

Cryptosovereignty.org

I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy.

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2025-03-27 00:51:26

There is a possibility of building something extraordinary that could last for thousands of years, and could contribute to the liberation of human from the shackles of statism forever.
But you wanna feel safe according to false and pretentious societal standards, so you sell your labor to corporate oligarchs who use your talents to help design system of digital slavery from which you will never escape.
Yeah, I dont think we have a lot to talk about.

2025-03-23 17:24:17

One of these best things about having kids is just having little people who just wanna hangout with you. No agenda or plans, just the desire to be around you and have fun. It’s very sweet.

2025-02-26 15:43:22

GM.
Let’s make it a great day.
https://m.primal.net/PMJr.jpg

2025-02-24 21:49:06

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Yes, it is a true ‘dark night of the soul’ of which many are unwilling to face—at least for now.

2025-02-24 21:37:44

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Disagree, and happy that there is an alternative to market compete to see which thesis is right. This is one of the things I always thought was important about Monero was with the tail emission to see which model works out the best over time.

2025-02-24 20:48:13

I’ve been trying to actively seek out the arguments against bitcoin again lately, and sadly, I am just seeing all of the same BS rehashed over and over.
It’s sad that these people won’t just bend the knee, eat the crow pie, and admit they were wrong and that bitcoin changes everything.
This is the real existential angst of what Bitcoin does and is, and it demands that you go through the deepest levels of philosophy and first principals thinking to accomplish it, of which many are unwilling to do; which is why they are either no-coiners or shitcoiners.

2025-02-22 08:19:46

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https://m.primal.net/PGZw.jpg

2025-02-21 19:21:43

Bitcoin is about big love.
The biggest of love towards all of humanity and posterity to come.
Supporting it is an implicit statement to all of the world, that even without knowing you, or any identifiable features about you, that you deserve the dignity of a free, fair, open-source money that is controlled by no one, and is open to anyone.

2025-02-21 19:10:52

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This is a likely outcome if we don’t fight against this on every front. There is a small window that is closing now that if we don’t protect our ability to freely and openly state that which exploits us, and actively organize to resist it, we will get lost in the brave new world that will numb and dumb us down to little more than cogs in a machine.

2025-02-21 18:17:00

The food industrial complex is essentially grooming all of us for sugar addiction, metabolic sickness, and endemic health issues.
The corporate oligarchs poison the food with glyphosate, augmented the entire agricultural economy to destroy small ethical producers, and blast us with constant ads pushing this shit that slowly destroys our minds, bodies, and total well-being.
At some point we will all realize how abusive this whole fiat food system is, and how much it takes advantage of all of us on an economic, emotional, and ethical level. The best thing about the collapse of the fiat system will be the destruction of fake food sludge system that is propped up by fake money.

2025-02-18 23:57:44

After a hardcore day of skiing I feel absolutely fried and just want to veg out for the rest of the day. It’s one of the few times I don’t feel guilty about watching a movie or just surfing the web.

2025-02-17 22:56:01

The losers of the world are gonna double down on their insane bullshit like censorship because they fucking suck and think their feelings getting hurt is a crime.
Imagine being this fragile. Like how did these people become adults without breaking into 1000 pieces?

2025-02-16 20:33:52

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Lmao

2025-02-16 19:58:25

The county fair is such a ripoff and subpar experience.

2025-02-16 15:49:05

Money allows for us to implicitly state, “We prefer to build a world together where we will share and exchange value based upon a market based society.”
This tear under the organizational structure of most of contemporary society, as they would choose violence before exchanging, force over functions, and control over compromise.
Money allows for us to choose how to coexist through cooperation rather than corrosion.
#nevent1q…6vjv

2025-02-16 15:37:25

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It’s really choose your own adventure social media.
It can be GM or FY depending on how you wanna approach it.
I’m feeling good today so GM.

2025-02-16 02:32:17

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Lmao, I’m happy you feel that way as those times can be pretty intense. Don’t wanna doxx my kids ages, but old enough for them to both be in school now.

2025-02-15 05:07:57

Anyone can say whatever retarded shit they want to now and nobody can stop them.
Nature is healing.

2025-02-15 02:50:18

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“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” —Benito Mussolini
That’s Fascism that you’re thinking of.

2025-02-14 04:21:08

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We would definitely not be invited back

2025-02-14 02:17:01

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Indeed, the refusals to engage with the decision of ‘I would prefer not to’ becomes the means by which a new world will be birthed, and that hopefully these new technologies will help us produce.

2025-02-14 02:03:38

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This is why I explicitly said not as personal people, but as roles.
In the same way that I will say the only good cop is a dead cop. Not saying any individual cop as a person should be made dead, but the very role of cops as a legalized form of personal violence under the guise of the state should be dead.
Again, while I am not saying that any individual should have any amount of violence extolled on them for, but the roles themselves should be ‘murdered’ and destroyed.
A bit inflammatory yes, perhaps even too much, but it paints the picture.

2025-02-14 01:53:24

Murder the bankers.
Not like as personal people, but as their very role and existence.
Let us join together in making these people obsolete and their existence an anachronism to our society.
#nevent1q…gm73

2025-02-09 22:42:15

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Go get that streisand effect started

2025-02-09 17:25:18

The endless graft, prostitution, and sycophantry found in contemporary social media is so endlessly dark and nihilistic that you would really think it’s just a dark forest out there. A pointless dark world where lies, theft, and guile are the only form of real power. That there is no purpose, reason, or greater meaning to life itself—just a black nothingness.
Truth is there is something much greater to this existence, and that is much more scary than nothing at all. It means we actually have a purpose and reason for existence, and that these projections of darkness are really just a means of manipulating all of us. The media apparatus projects the shadows on the walls and gives microphones to the most callow and anxious to make these shadows real. While they are little more than shadows on the walls, most people will believe it because they too are in bondage, chained before the wall, incapable of turning back to see how the sunlight is manipulated for such dark purposes.
Most people are good and are deeply craving a world of honor, dignity, and reason; they are just incarcerated into a fiat bondage, and conditioned through fear and terror. We have all just been captured by a fiat world view for so long that to reason outside and beyond it without a means to fight it (i.e. bitcoin) is utterly impossible. That is why the understanding of what bitcoin offers in contrast to fiat is so important, as it becomes a way to see through the dark forest and understanding that it is not dark at all, but merely a projection of power, a means of control through presenting only one view. To turn and see how the light is projected to make this dark forest, the shadows on the wall creates a new and different means of power. A power of reason and meaning, where the possible of breaking the chains of bondage is a real possibility, but only with this knowledge.

2025-02-08 19:35:43

Also the ‘plant-based’ scam I deeply hate too. Nothing is worse in grocery shopping than seeing small writing at the bottom indicating this lie.
There is no such thing as plant based meat, milk, cheese, or eggs—calling it as such is a disingenuous lie that passes industry sludge off as something ‘healthy’ when it is anything but.

2025-02-08 18:34:11

More than inflation, I have a deep and impassioned hatred for shitflation.
I’m happy to pay 2x premium for a product if I know it’s really built to last a lifetime, but because we live in nihilistic fiat ripoff society it’s damn near impossible to find great products that are built to last. It suck to have to replace shit every 5 years that should last a lifetime.

2025-02-08 03:20:25

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Having been on the inside from 13-17, I can attest to it being a dumpster fire, but fractional reserving is one thing I feel confident that CB doesn’t do.

2025-02-08 02:48:44

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The real risk is in a 6102 play, which with this administration is greater than a non-0 chance.

2025-02-08 02:43:34

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NEW WORLD CONTENT…
Or at least it should.

2025-02-07 22:51:20

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Norcal coast

2025-02-07 17:21:43

GM
https://m.primal.net/OUya.jpg

2025-02-07 01:13:12

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Hey, I know that guy!

2025-02-05 05:01:10

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Fiction points back towards both myths and legends, which tend to be the stories of values and virtues for a particular society. This points the way back towards the recovery of those values and virtues in hard times, which is why power wins in the short-term, but value wins in the long term.

2025-02-01 02:00:56

Man, I just really love how bitcoin really connects people at this deeper level that is truly strange in the most spectacular of ways.

2025-01-31 15:20:28

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If you’ve never read The Law I highly recommend—it’s so refreshing to know that there was someone deep in history that understood how retarded the state was even that long ago.

2025-01-31 15:17:03

Just getting to low key vibe with other bitcoiners is such a gift. Very few other groups of people are willing to do the deep dives in conversation and willing to really contemplate and question creatively together which always produces the most interesting and amazing conversations.

2025-01-31 01:19:02

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Make you forget the last 5 minutes

2025-01-28 15:14:57

Long travel day, any listening recommendations?

2025-01-27 04:44:39

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Kids choice, what can I say 🤷

2025-01-27 04:43:13

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Mute registries will be a thing.

2025-01-27 03:40:36

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I have a maple bacon one I do every so often when I have the time and ingredients.

2025-01-27 03:34:49

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It’s me and my boy.

2025-01-27 03:33:55

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Goat cheese is a good addition I should try

2025-01-27 02:35:12

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That’s a good one, particularly with an egg on top and kale cooked in the bacon fat.

2025-01-27 02:17:12

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Cesar wraps are a good call

2025-01-27 01:50:54

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Yes

2025-01-27 01:50:33

Top 5 dad meals by category:
Breakfast:
-Banana pancakes
-Bacon, eggs, cubed potatoes
-Biscuits and gravy
-Oatmeal
-Giant pancake
Lunch:
-BLTs
-PB&J
-Cream cheese bagels and lox
-Salami rollups
-Deluxe seasonal sandwich
Dinner:
-Steak, baked potato, and roasted cauliflower
-Polenta bacon kale bowls
-Baked chicken, roasted broccoli, diced potatoes
-Crockpot pork ribs
-Baked salmon, green beans, and quinoa
What are your easy go-to meals you can make for +4?

2025-01-27 01:38:20

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I made it an opportunity to really try to sing it each time well, as there are not many opportunities to really attempt to sing songs well as a grown man.

2025-01-27 01:36:46

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When you’re really tired and just glitch out and sing the same verse 10 times in a row 🤣

2025-01-27 01:30:21

I can sincerely say that I have sang twinkle twinkle little star and rock-a-bye baby at least 10,000 times.

2025-01-26 23:48:54

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Goddamnit, and lol.

2025-01-26 21:42:10

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Are you an AI or a Nazi? Simple question.

2025-01-26 19:29:54

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It’s this kind of shit that you clearly fail to understand works against you. If you want a real conversation that could actually be productive in a meaningful way than be willing to put in the effort towards it rather than just being as asshole.

2025-01-26 19:07:51

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It’s a complex question that I resent people think can easily or sensitively discussed on forums like this because of the extremely nuanced nature of not only the conversation, content and deep historical knowledge needed to discuss such things; but also the very real bigotry and hate that is directed in both directions for either trying to question, or accepting the historical narrative. It’s rather infuriating as it is a needed conversation that seems nearly impossible because of how much it has loaded itself and the aggressive nature in which questioning isn’t presented as sincere questioning, similar to how defending the narrative doesn’t seem to have legitimacy beyond its own defense. So frankly I can’t really comment on any of it without opening a can of worms that needs a 5 hour podcast format just to get the preliminary view to understanding the very nature of the question itself.

2025-01-26 18:50:00

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I’m not crying

2025-01-26 18:35:44

I am really starting to understand it’s not so much that people are actually stupid, but that they have been so thoroughly brainwashed and conditioned that the form of callowness in which they exist overrides all forms of thought so that the very idea of taking courageous action is fundamentally impossible.
It’s quite sad really.

2025-01-26 16:24:18

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I don’t care what anyone says, I will always make the high time preference choice of POW now

2025-01-26 01:32:10

Myspace < Myrelay

2025-01-26 01:30:38

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Ah no sorry fren not this time, but Danny and I are gonna try to get together in person sometime in March to do an in-person show.

2025-01-26 01:02:44

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Been laughing at those retards for a decade

2025-01-25 23:57:53

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Frankly it is a fiat company if such credentialism matters and takes investment accordingly.

2025-01-25 23:55:36

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Lead the way. Every industry will have those that spearhead ‘bitcoin-only’ and will cater to a small, demanding audience by providing high quality goods and services. Particularly high turnover, cashflow business will do the best IF they can find a niche, as they will have BITflow over cashflow.

2025-01-25 23:53:20

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Yeah, there are a lot of benefits and a lot of drawbacks as well.

2025-01-25 23:52:25

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Pretty close

2025-01-25 23:43:12

Having worked at and invested in number of ‘bitcoin’ companies, the great problem you will always deal with is fiat people, fiat policies, and fiat politics. While this isn’t a problem when the company is small, it becomes more acute with growth for various reasons until it pretty much becomes unbearable. Then it becomes a fiat company that just happens to do bitcoin stuff, and usually sacrifices the real ethos and values that started the company in the first place.
The only real solution is to build totally bitcoin-only (as in no touching fiat) ‘companies’—which there are very few, and as it becomes more successful, the harder it is to keep it that way.
The good news is that soon there will be more of these ‘companies’ if we can really call them that. Over the next epoch, these will provide some of the greatest opportunities (and risks) to build extraordinary new products and services for the whole world and will truly be ‘bitcoin-only’ services that will likely be real pieces of infrastructure of the future internet. These will also provide the greatest investment opportunities ever, as they will be ‘forever’ and ‘everywhere’ companies.

2025-01-25 18:12:18

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Nothing worse than far left bell curve folks who think they are far right bell curve who don’t have the brainpower to see how embarrassing and stupid they are.

2025-01-25 02:41:21

I honestly feel bad for anyone that fucks with bitcoin and thereby bitcoiners. The amount of full powered autism that gets directed at those individuals will absolutely crush them.

2025-01-25 02:20:36

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This is the price of bitcoin against the value of bitcoin.

2025-01-24 22:46:10

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❤️🙏

2025-01-24 20:56:38

https://fountain.fm/episode/IYiUiupJrHNDpmcozjix

2025-01-24 20:55:15

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Lmao, I don’t even feel bad for people getting scammed anymore. I just appreciate the scammers show their true colors.

2025-01-24 20:28:29

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Guy is the strategist that I think bridges the gap between classic and modern understanding of these concepts in many ways.

2025-01-24 20:27:10

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I had a good response that got ate from me not having a good connection, But Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Peter Kropotkin, and rudolf rocker all have interesting takes

2025-01-24 18:12:55

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Yeah I don’t really dig contemporary anarchist, as the ideology is all messed up imho.
I have not read these in a while, but Rudolf Rocker, Peter kropotkin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon all influenced my thoughts on this division between anarchism and communism.

2025-01-24 17:27:53

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The division between young Marx thought (alienation) and older (materialism) both have important distinctions as well.
Imho anarchism recognizes many of the criticisms of capitalism, but addresses them in a way that doesn’t lead to insanity or totalitarianism. This is why anarchism was such a failure of political theory in the 20th century it just didn’t have the tools to actualize itself. However we do now have those tools, just very few recognize their political nature.

2025-01-24 16:52:35

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Jeez, this is like a really really big question that demands like 200 pages of historic context to really get into and parse out. Marxism today is a highly mutilated version of its own assertions starting as early as the communist manifesto, as Marxism was originally an application of scientific socialism; a theory that came long before Marx. Today we have some form of Stalinist-Maoist ideologies divorced from the classic ideas that were first put forward as scientific socialism.
As to the second question, I think it’s obvious that the consolidation of capitalism into the hands of a few and their relationship to the state and regulatory regime has been hugely damaging to humanity on a whole and that needs to be checked in someway.
This is where and why I side with anarchism, which was allied with the socialist up until the second international where Bakunin broke with Marx over the use of the state to create a communist society.

2025-01-24 16:08:56

GM Frens.
Beautiful day to go touch the grass and remember that we are winning.
Nothing will stop bitcoin or nostr, and these are gifts to humanity that we support and create together, and will use to turn the tide towards a kind of freedom that cannot be taken away.
Enjoy the beauty of it all Frens.
https://m.primal.net/NyEx.jpg

2025-01-24 05:50:59

Zaps allow for the distinction between liking what someone says and valuing it, and the distinction between those two.

2025-01-24 01:36:33

Shitcoins are the original sin of Bitcoin.

2025-01-24 01:18:06

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Not enough.

2025-01-24 00:13:23

You don’t hate the state enough.
#note14fh…rdhj

2025-01-23 22:30:33

Serves y’all right for counting on the government to not fuck a good thing up.

2025-01-23 17:48:06

“Hi, we live down the street. Can your dogs come outside and play?”
Uh, yeah sure, why not.
https://m.primal.net/Nwgd.jpg

2025-01-23 17:45:27

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We need a bridge bot AI agent. Just zap to get whomever you want bridged.

2025-01-23 17:43:57

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But the people are retarded.

2025-01-23 14:44:54

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Do you mean ERIC BLAIR!?!?

2025-01-23 04:41:56

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Now go do the dishes.

2025-01-23 04:38:23

WHO FAVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT A MICROPHONE AND WHY IS NO ONE BOOING?!
#note1vgx…ykc5

2025-01-23 04:35:28

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I hym and haw about it.
I have future plans in which reaching out to normies and NPCs it could be useful.

2025-01-23 02:54:55

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Always has been.

2025-01-23 02:52:58

Opps. I opened the xitter app and now I have Down’s syndrome.

2025-01-23 01:19:29

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You’re an aussie so you get a handicap.

2025-01-23 01:01:10

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Only with apology tho, and at my discretion it’s sincere.

2025-01-23 00:59:26

Attention retards:
You will get one warning that you are retarded when commenting on my post, and the next time you will be muted if said retardation continues.
Unmuting fees start at 10k sats, plus explicit apology for retarded thing said.
You have been warned retards.

2025-01-22 21:07:11

Remember he was thrown I. The hole for 6 months after this—something he spoke very directly to the terror of in this speech.
What a courageous man.
#note18yl…a2dv

2025-01-22 21:04:55

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Same same.

2025-01-22 20:56:24

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I don’t care and they cannot stop me from saying my truth.

2025-01-22 20:55:45

Hard to listen to this and not cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMVyr5NjEY

2025-01-22 19:03:07

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Oh nos; I have to login to another client.