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Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
Renegade:
tomos:
^ hah, that must be you with Andreas Antonopoulos in Melbourne :)
I presume you enjoyed
Renegade:
^ hah, that must be you with Andreas Antonopoulos in Melbourne :)
-tomos (November 24, 2014, 07:50 AM)
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Yup!
I presume you enjoyed
-tomos (November 24, 2014, 07:50 AM)
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Very much!
He is a brilliant mind and I was very happy to have met him.
At one point in his speaking, I could see the emotions beginning to flow up to the forefront, and him holding them back. (I was in the front row.) What he talks about matters because he talks about things that affect people's lives in very deep and practical ways.
In many ways some of what he talks about is deeply saddening, but then he presents great hope.
Long before I became involved in Bitcoin, I was cheering it on because I could see good coming out of it.
Now, more than ever, I am still cheering for those same reasons.
"Another world is possible, and we pledge to make it real."
The Pledge of Resistance - Original:
Mix by Jeff Berwick (brilliant):
(I listen to this regularly as it is, well, listen and you'll know why.)
And when people understand that, they will stop using the blood currencies of the warmongering states and start transacting in the currency of voluntarism, peace, and freedom - Bitcoin.
The more people use Bitcoin and stop using fiat, the less power the vampiric, bloodthirsty, warmongering politicians will have.
Make no mistake - we're headed for war right now. Just look at the economies --- states with weak economies go to war. Today is not an exception in history.
The question now is whether people will support more mass murder or not.
SAUL WILLIAMS PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE LYRICS
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oil
Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will
and Not in our name
We pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
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Ideas matter. They're important.
40hz:
Ideas matter. They're important.
-Renegade (November 24, 2014, 10:29 AM)
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However, the implementation and execution of ideas are even more important.
Without meaningful, sustainable, and ultimately successful action, they're just more rhetoric.
8)
Renegade:
However, the implementation and execution of ideas are even more important.
Without meaningful, sustainable, and ultimately successful action, they're just more rhetoric.
8)
-40hz (November 24, 2014, 11:00 AM)
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Bitcoin is still a pretty young technology, and the things happening right now are changing the world. Even "the Internet of money" is a limited view of it.
Smart contracts, tokenized property, micro payments, and arbitrary escrow are just a few things there.
It's more than just rhetoric. It's a multi-billion dollar economy with millions of participants and this is just its infancy.
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