Trump Cheers Missiles as Bitcoin’s Peace Dream Dies?
A smile surely broke out on Donald Trump’s face at the news of the strikes in Tehran, his remark being that it was an “excellent” attack. This is in direct contradiction to Bitcoin’s ideals. Deaths of 78 people, mostly civilians, women, and children, stated UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani. A possible leader cheers a horrendous tragedy.
How bitterly ironic? Bitcoin, unleashed as an instrument to wage war against those who profit from it and give way to peace, is now being accumulated by the very architects of war. The digital dream of decentralization and financial freedom found its way into another truck in defense of power, further funding conflicts it should be stopping. The missiles explode while Bitcoin’s very promise of peace falls in ashes.
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Trump’s “pro-Bitcoin” persona successfully distracted from the actual hawkish shift. Prior to the strike, a message on Truth Social went up, which seemed rather dovish: “We remain committed to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue!” For there are whisperings in Israel of a different tale. Reports from anonymous officials cited by Axios and The Jerusalem Post suggest a calculated deception. “We had a clear U.S. green light,” one allegedly said to Axios, pointing at a strategic ploy to lull Iran into a false sense of security before the strike. Was this diplomacy from Trump a genuine one, or yet another smokescreen?
Source: Truth Social.
Manufactured consent can be very stinky, can’t it? Sifting through the rubble of mainstream news one sees one rooster of truth: politicians and bankers can create wars, a hideous dance wherein innocent blood is spilt to line their coffers. As Major General Smedley Butler, a war hero turned whistleblower, thundered: “Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die… No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason.” These esteemed gentlemen walked to glory for profit, oblivious that the bullet that put them down was manufactured by their own countrymen. Bitcoiners, the old hands of the financial battlefield, recognize this puppet show for what it is: a greed-laden tragedy unfolding before the world.
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That was a revolution the moment Bitcoin was born. The genesis block etched into the very DNA of Bitcoin: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” Hence, crypto was always to act as the ultimate firewall separating money from the hands of the state. Roger Ver thought it should be used to dismantle the war machines of governments.
But the revolution was hijacked, the very forces Bitcoin was meant to destroy have come to now control its destiny. Blackrock, the monster of a war industry, holds hundreds of thousands of BTC. The U.S. government sits on a digital dragon hoard. Even crypto-heroes like Michael Saylor fell to their knees at the altar of the state, singing praises of Trump and vilifying privacy advocates.
The death wish of being peer-to-peer, permissionless cash has faded away. Crypto now has become a control mechanism. Funding entities on both sides of the Ukraine/Russia conflict is a stark reminder. Centralized exchanges, bound by statist regulations, complete the picture.
The chilling truth is that the very Bitcoin born to stand against tyranny may now be complicit. And if the U.S. continues all the way down the path of funding conflicts and supporting terror, then ironically Bitcoin shall become the tool to fuel the fire.
Source: bitcointreasuries.net.
How to take crypto back in 2 steps
Hence, while the world takes a ghoulish view of “Israel vs. Iran” as a sporting event, remember this: we, the common men, are pawns. Caught in the crossfire, the collateral damages include lives, homes, hospitals, dreams just reduced to rubble.
Previously, the hope was that Bitcoin might stand against all this madness, a financial firewall sheathing against state-sponsored violence. But those days seem gone… Even the early evangelists are making some questionable alliances. Has the dream of a decentralized utopia been hijacked?
Probably. But hope remains. If used properly, and then we can take the chains off, tying money to the state, by the core technology of Bitcoin itself.The trick is to work truly independent, censorship-free networks, which empower instant and permissionless transactions.
More importantly, we have to embrace the basic principle: freedom originates from self-ownership. No government at all, Israeli, Iranian, or American, ever really puts the people first. States, if anything, are conglomerates of individuals, and those individuals are just as human and fallible as anyone else, prone to temptation.
Despite the uncomfortable truths being obvious, power protects power. Behind manufactured conflicts and animosities on television, there is one dark brotherhood. Their game is distraction-and we are the players. Do not be duped.
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Imagine a world where one owns his own person, life, or body, ever so much as having the right over the products of his labor. The very idea that self-dubbed rulers would hold the power to enslave him violently, force him into wars against innocent strangers, or soak him with taxes for all kinds of destruction would become utterly preposterous.
As decentralized payment systems release capital, decentralized communities grant self-governance. This is not some dreamy existence undefined by time. With the speed, efficiency, and censorship freedom brought by cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Cash, comes a real opportunity of economic freedom. Mounting one transaction after another, aided by newer and newer privacy technologies, we could starve the violence papa until non-compliance becomes a big tidal wave.
Imagine people awakening in the morning and refusing to be pawns in wars waged for the egos of Trumps and Netanyahus, Khameneis, and any ideology that somehow glorifies killing. There lies the power to destroy tyranny simply in saying no. Do not fund it. Do not fight for it. Take hold of yourself.
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