Bitcoin is Revolutionary, Not Evolutionary

The Bitcoin Conference in Nashville last week was chock-full of enthusiastic, quasi-rebels eager to bring this new form of money to the forefront of our global society.

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For all of the signal generated, there was still a good bit of noise, easily identified and annoying to older Bitcoiners, but likely confusing to newcomers.

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With former president Donald Trump, candidate RFK JR., various senators, traditional finance types, and others taking the mic across seven stages, it could be easy for one to believe that Bitcoin should merely be integrated into our current way of doing things. But if you consider Bitcoin in the context of American values, at least, it is so much more than that.

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As Ben Askren shared at the conference, we sometimes forget that having a bank or government agency babysitting us and “providing” for us wasn’t the norm a hundred years ago.

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In other words, the ETFs, the banks, and existing financial service providers all go bye-bye (at least as we know them today) under a Bitcoin standard. You can fend for yourself. You can be your own bank. You can achieve a 21st century version of self-sovereignty.

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The United States was founded on the basis that taxation is theft and that 13 little colonies didn’t need oversight from a monarch across the ocean.

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Bitcoin, too, was created on the basis that taxation is theft and that families and individuals across the globe don’t need oversight from fill-in-the-blank-authority. We can and should push, demand, and prepare for a better, freer life for ourselves.

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Bitcoin is not the next evolution of money. Instead, it is a complete break - a revolution - from what we’ve known into something much better. Bitcoin is fairer, freer, more global, more accessible, permissionless, and uncontrollable.

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This is the money we need in our world.

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Escape the matrix and join the peaceful, Bitcoin revolution.

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