The Bitcoin Economy Part 1

Technology has transformed the human experience over the past 150 years. Medicine can now prevent and treat many previously incurable diseases. We can traverse the planet in hours instead of years. One farmer can feed a small town. Cars did not exist when my Great Grandmother was born.

Technology moves fast.

One area that we have not transformed is breaking our reliance on centrally managed fiat currencies. Our boom bust cycle that has existed since money was invented continues to this day. Every fiat currency in history has failed.

As the saying goes, “On a long enough timeline….”

We are now entering a new phase. Similar to how advances in medicine, transportation and technology altered our day to day life we are about to see a shift in how we value information and exchange goods.

Information is the new money.

Money has these characteristics:

The characteristics of money are durabilityportability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability.

When comparing the USD (the world’s reserve currency) to Bitcoin the USD is inferior in all areas except for acceptability (at this time). The world just hasn’t caught on yet. When it does, Bitcoin will beat the USD there too.

We are on the verge of a new era, distinct from every currency of the past.

No currency in history has been backed by Proof of Work. This makes Bitcoin the most reliable, resilient and fair money mankind has produced.

Very simply, Proof of Work creates honest money. We know for the next 100+ years how Bitcoin, via POW, will be issued and secured. This process is set in stone.

Proof of Work is fundamentally different than Fiat. Proof of Work is competitive. Miners are rewarded for securing the Bitcoin network. No work, no reward. Every Bitcoin is a product of Proof of Work providing cryptographic proof of it’s validity.

Fiat money is a currency without intrinsic value that has been established as money, often by government regulation. Fiat money does not have use value, and has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value. – Wikipedia

Stablecoins, eg Libra, are pegged to fiat. Fiat is a promise. Therefore, Libra is a promise about a promise! The world has been built on promises created by governments proclaiming their currency as means of exchange. Throughout history governments have broken their promises around Fiat. Fiat can be manipulated. It is subject to the presiding government’s challenges. Never in history has fiat survived the waxing and waning of the politicians. Example: as of the 70’s the US dollar is not backed by gold. Only more promises. Fiat is inferior to POW. Fiat, as a promise and as history has shown, is eventually broken.

POW is a fair playing field. No politician can manipulate Bitcoin. Money has always been power. In Bitcoin, information is power. This enables competition without boundaries. Even with unreliable internet anyone can compete in the Bitcoin Economy. I can sell my goods online for pennies from anywhere in a Bitcoin Economy.

The Bitcoin Economy will revolutionize information sharing and exchange of value.

Proof of Work is a breakthrough in how money is created. There is no promise, no peg to break in PoW. There is no dilution via centralized policy. Proof of Work replaces fiat with honest money. POW does not care about politics. POW is truth.

Bitcoin enables commerce at a microtransaction level. The Long Tail theory shows that microtransactions can generate a larger impact on the world economy than the Internet. Microtransactions in volume will dwarf current economic numbers.

Fiat currencies ultimately settle in USD, the king of Fiat, as USD is the world’s reserve currency. The problem is the USD is not honest money. There’s no peg to anything, only an empty promise. Bankers print with the Fed’s approval. Pegging the world’s currencies to the US Dollar is tying your lifeboat to the Titanic.

The world’s economies are living on borrowed time.

Stablecoins are lipstick on a pig (USD).We must dig deep. We can do better. This is a critical turning point for the world economy.

Bitcoin is truth.

Stablecoins perpetuate a fiat system built on a promise. Bitcoin is a NOT a promise. Stablecoins are the gateway to a new century of serfdom.

The Bitcoin Whitepaper is a masterpiece. Maybe the greatest human achievement in the past 100 years.You don’t mess with a masterpiece. If that sounds like hyperbole you haven’t seen what Bitcon enables yet.

The Bitcoin Economy exposes corruption, lies and crime. Anyone who champions against Bitcoin has a stake in hiding something. To be clear, Bitcoin does not care what you do, but if you do something illegal Bitcoin is not your friend.

We are in the very earliest stages of Bitcoin. 10 years is nothing. It’s important to begin researching Bitcoin now. I’ve been at this for years and I have startling revelations almost daily.

This will take time. Start now.

This post first appeared on Coinspeak.io

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20 years as an IT consultant. Escaped the rat race in 2015. Addicted to travel and tacos.

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3 comments

  1. I asked you this on another older thread and I will ask again here. Do I need to be on Twitter to join Twetch? I already have money button and hand cash accounts but when I go to Twetch, it sends me to money button. Thanks.

    • Sign into MB that should redirect you to twetch

      • It doesn’t. Just lands me on a page showing my money button balance, history, and settings.

        When I go to Twetch.app, I click the log in link and it takes me to a money button page.

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