Freedom is very different than a potentially controlled system.
Bitcoin: The Infinite Game & The Price of Everything | Jeff Booth
“If you’re measuring Bitcoin in dollars, you haven’t left the matrix yet.”
- – Why the natural state of a free market is deflation
- – How fiat money , credit crises and “liquidity tightening” create the illusion that Bitcoin is failing
- – Why nothing has changed in Bitcoin … and everything has changed in the legacy system
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5 Your time is going to tell you which system is going to win, but they cannot coexist.
7 If Bitcoin stayed decentralized and secure, it is the first free market that's ever existed.
9 It's us moving from a zero-sum game to an infinite game, 10 but we wouldn't have the map of what the infinite game looks like 11 because we've never lived in that map.
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It cannot exist together.
One system gets worse, it has to be a complete surveillance state.
One system gets better.
Your time is going to tell you which system is going to win, but they cannot coexist.
The natural state of the free market is deflation.
If Bitcoin stayed decentralized and secure, it is the first free market that's ever existed.
It's not Bitcoin that's changing.
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“If you’re measuring Bitcoin in dollars, you haven’t left the matrix yet.”
– Why the natural state of a free market is deflation
– How fiat money , credit crises and “liquidity tightening” create the illusion that Bitcoin is failing
– Why nothing has changed in Bitcoin … and everything has changed in the legacy system
Jeff explains why he left Canada , what he sees coming next (capital controls, higher taxes, more surveillance), and why countries like El Salvador and leaders like Bukele are so important in this moment. We talk about the on-the-ground reality in El Salvador, the Bitcoin Historico event, and why teaching kids to self-custody and use Bitcoin is the most “anti-dictator” move a government can make.
We also dig into Fedi / Fedimint , community-based Bitcoin custody and private messaging, and why tools like Fedi + Nostr are mandatory if you want to keep your money and communications out of the coming AI-powered surveillance dragnet.
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