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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

Lol what does FTX has to do with BTC? "Oh no, there are people running crypto scams, therefore the whole system is corrupt". Do you think banks were free of corruption prior to Wall Str.? Seems like a double standard to me.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

Same for cash. Again, you have zero idea how the money system works. The Fed money printer doesn't print cash, it prints 1 and 0 on a server. All banks do that. The fiat paper money that you worship are downstream to that enormous centralized digital system. You don't even begin to understand how hypocritical and idiotic your criticism of BTC is.

Just read on the subject and stop embarrassing yourself.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

That's a false dichotomy. Money is not the problem - money debasement is the problem. Sound money is a requirement for any economy. Jefferson may have promoted barter, but how come he and the rest of the daddies didn't transition the states to a barter system only? Barter is appropriate in some occasions but no state economy can run on barter, this is idiocy.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

What you wrote makes no sense. Extract what for real money? BTC is real money. Your cash will be good for toilet paper only if the grid comes down. Today's cash is wholly dependent on the power grid, do you realize that?

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

BTC is stored in offline wallets. The current system (or any viable system you could think of that will work today) will still be dependent on the power grid. Maybe learn some basics first and then we can talk.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

If barter alone worked money wouldn't be a thing. This is economics 101, but you wouldn't know that considering your stance on BTC.

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SmithW1984 3 points ago +4 / -1

Btw, the true definition of usury is lending money with interest. This was prohibited in the OT and later on in all Christian nations. But jews did it and that's how they came to rule over global finance. Why I'm not surprised your kind supports it?

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

You don't - that's the whole point. You use it as money, because it is sound money and will have wide adoption in the future.

Why would I sell real money that store value and only appreciate in time due to real scarcity for Fed inflationary goy shekels?

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SmithW1984 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's exactly what I will do too but I will still have gold and BTC to have leverage against the beast system.

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SmithW1984 2 points ago +3 / -1

You're so dumb that you quoted a text that says BTC transactions are anonymous and thought it said the opposite. Come on, dude.

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SmithW1984 0 points ago +2 / -2

You know the current fiat system is ran by computers too, right? When the system goes, your monopoly money will be used to wipe your ass with - ask Venezuela. As if the paper itself holds any real value... I hope you're a shill and not that stupid in reality.

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SmithW1984 2 points ago +3 / -1

We'll see I guess. It's useless to argue with someone who doesn't even understand what BTC is.

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SmithW1984 0 points ago +2 / -2

What's the point in criticizing something that you don't even understand? The point is to discredit it obviously, because you're a shill.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +2 / -1

Again ignoring the fundamental difference between CBDC and BTC/decentralized and anonymous cryptos.

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SmithW1984 2 points ago +3 / -1

How? By shitting on alternatives like BTC? Isn't it strange that leftist globalist owned media share your lack of enthusiasm about BTC? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/18/the-guardian-view-on-cryptos-latest-crash-it-reveals-who-pays-the-price-for-a-failing-economy

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SmithW1984 2 points ago +2 / -0

But then you can't have any knowledge. There has to be a starting point which isn't properly justified. We already have these starting points within our minds so we may as well just be explicit about them instead of pretend everything we think has some justification.

In epistemology, that would be assuming the classic foundationalist position. There are two other possible options - infinite regression and coherentism. I reject foundationalism because it's ad hoc. Foundationalism (like Descartes' famous cogito) got nuked during the Enlightenment by skeptics like Hume and later Kant and became an untannable position. If being ad hoc is allowed, then all argumentation and philosophical discourse about truth, existence and the good becomes impossible.

Your starting point is that it's OK for you to kill babies? Great, but we're going to judge you according to our standards, not yours.

That's an appeal to irrelevancy and an appeal to authority/majority. Nothing about this has to do with the position being true or not.

You still do work stuff out for yourself, which is how you arrived at your views. You're no different from everyone else trying to figure stuff out and judging other people's views to be wrong.

Sure, how we arrive to knowledge depends on our worldview but worldviews aren't equal. I already demonstrated how the materialist worldview can't justify it's basic principles and assumptions. The point is that the laws of logic and thought are objective. Just because I'm the one making the claim or the argument doesn't make it a subjective claim. If I can demonstrate that competing worldviews are incoherent, unjustified and lack explanatory power, while making the case that my worldview is coherent and grounds the things we all appeal to (reason, logic, meaning, purpose, free will, universals, etc), then my worldview is true.

You think these are good explanations for the way things are? No, of course not. The fact people can come up with dumb theories doesn't tell us that we can't work anything out for ourselves.

They may be dumb, but you still have to demonstrate why they're false. That something seems dumb or unlikely to you is not an argument about it being true or not. Atheists think all religious claims are equally dumb and made up. So what?

Nature is the only thing that everyone who believes in a creator can agree is the work of the creator. So are we going to judge things by nature that we know is from the creator or are we going to judge things - including nature - by something which claims to be from the creator but cannot definitively prove it and doesn't live up to its claims? So are we going to judge things by nature that we know is from the creator or are we going to judge things - including nature - by something which claims to be from the creator but cannot definitively prove it and doesn't live up to its claims?

Saying we all believe in nature therefore belief in nature is the common ground doesn't work. Nature to a Christian is an entirely different concept than what nature means to a materialist, new age gnostic or a Buddhist. This is a word-concept fallacy - just because the same word is used (like God, creator, nature, etc) it doesn't follow that it points to the same idea. Nature itself is a metaphysical concept. How you interpret nature depends on things that are not found in nature itself - this ties back to what Hume is/ought problem and Thomas Kuhn's ideas about paradigms and theory-ladenness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory-ladenness).

This is why broad generic theism (like perennialism, theosophy and freemasonry) doesn't work in making a coherent worldview because it's riddled with incompatible core beliefs. There's no "lowest common denominator God".

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SmithW1984 2 points ago +3 / -1

Low effort troll just like the name suggests. Is anyone a real thinking human being and not AI, schizos and NATO/Mossad cognitive warfare operative running psy ops on this board?

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SmithW1984 0 points ago +2 / -2

"Everyone disagreeing with me is a talmudic jew" logic. Even though I'm the one critiquing the current Fed system that was set up by the international jews. I've red Mullin's and Coleman's books on the Fed and I'm very aware who's behind it. How does that solve the problem of getting off that system?

The problem we face is not digitalization but centralization. The internet is digital and that's fine as long as it's not centralized. Same goes for money. Digitalization is dangerous because it facilitates centralization. But the Fed system is already fully centralized even if cash is the last bastion preventing full on tracking and tracing.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +3 / -2

So you don't think they will transition us to digital money in the near future?

The irony is what I'm saying is exactly the opposite - don't submit to the techno-gulag and make sure you have an alternative to the coming CBDC social credit system. What you refuse to understand is that if you go on using the fiat money as you do right now because it's cash, you will certainly be transitioned to CBDC. Your cash makes you 100% reliant on the Fed system. I'd take digital BTC over cash fake and gay printer money anytime.

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SmithW1984 2 points ago +4 / -2

It's coming either way. As of 2022, 12% of Transactions within the US are in cash. Cash will be completely fazed out and discontinued by 2030 and there's nothing you can do about it.

Your choice is between centralized Fedcoin or decentralized BTC.

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SmithW1984 1 point ago +3 / -2

The ledger stores transactions from on wallet to another. Wallets are just a hash code - no name, address, bio-data, ID number. How is that not anonymous?

Instead of speculating where it came from, look at what BTC represents - an alternative to the usury debt-slave fiat system - and judge it according to that.

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