WHY CRYPTO-CURRENCIES AND DECENTRALIZATION WILL CHANGE THE WORLD - #BUYBITCOIN

I semi-quit Facebook today.

I kind of semi-rage-quit. I read an article regarding a new “feature” they would be rolling out, and my DANGER DANGER DANGER alert went off.

To summarize, Facebook will be scanning all posts with a new ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE that will learn to monitor people’s emotions. This is being packaged as a way to “save possible suicide victims”.

So Facebook A.I., if concerned enough about your SUPER EMO posts, may feel it is appropriate to contact a friend or family member, or, in the case of too many MORRISEY YouTube posts, may call the cops/medical folks to get you the quality care you need, whether you want the massive bill for their “services” or not.

Holy shit.

Buh Bye, CreepBook. Now I will use you for nothing but a complicated messaging service when family wont contact me any other way.

I am free! No more preaching to the few friends on my feed who see or care about what I post. No more intimate trolls to send shambling back under their burnt bridges. No more awful, worn out, depressing pharmaceutical-pamphlet-blue ad-vector to stare at. No more wondering how Facebook is going to creep all over my privacy next…

“HEY, CHIEF, WE NOTICED YOU WERE MASTURBATING. WOULD YOU LIKE US TO RECOMMEND BETTER TECHNIQUES? Please select from the following two options to continue masturbating: YES or MAYBE LATER”

Sionara, Zuck. You kinda suck. I probably won’t be back…

WHAT? NO FACEBOOK? WHAT’S NEXT?

If you are reading this, you are already aware that Facebook sucks. Personally, I think Twitter is a lot more fun than Facebook. It is great to be able to be in the same conversation as people you dig and admire, and know they may be reading your posts. It feels like your thoughts matter, and you can’t write a novel about them, you have to be precise, making for quick, entertaining repartee. It is also the best source of minute-to-minute crypto news, and it is surely your best bet if your goal is to get the President to see your hilarious snarky GIF comment (Yeah, deep down, you KNOW you are on a list now, stupid. Enjoy your first amendment right to an NDAA cell somewhere off the coast of CUBA).

But as fun as Twitter may be, it is centralized, and we now know that the centralization of these networks absolutely effects freedom of press/speech, as evidenced by Twitters own admission that is had repressed political posts in the past (See: Twitter repressed DNC leaks). People who though it was important to share those relevant, factual leaked documents and emails were censored by the brass at Twitter, because Twitter is prone to their centralized influence and decision making.

WHY DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS?

It is a fact that if God itself showed up at your house and asked to see the leader of the internet, you would be unable to tell it who that was, because there is no leader of the internet.

So goes the theory of decentralized social networking. No ego-maniacs with billions of dollars deciding what goes on behind the curtain. No creepy A.I. that tracks your every word and move to learn about human emotions. No way for a central authority to shut down the entire network if it doesn’t like what is on it.

And that is why today’s power structures, centralized by nature and necessity, fear decentralized structures and mobility platforms such as decentralized social networking.

If they can’t shut us down, and if they can’t shut us up, then what? If we can get around their schemes and scams, and there is no way to really stop it from happening en-masse, what will happen to their house of cards? When they are finally held accountable by the people, who have learned to wield money as a weapon and a tool, the very tool that was used to enslave and exploit them before…what will those old guilty dinosaurs do?

They will do what society demands of them, or they will cease to be required.

And that is the beauty of combining Proof of Work financial technology/ideology, and applying it, by evolutionary necessity and not-so-gentle force, to the current world paradigm. It flips things on their head. It provides an avenue not just for a massive wealth transfer, but a righting of the ship, and a more democratic control of said ship from then on.

AND IF THEY CAN’T CONROL OUR MONEY…

Crypto-currencies will, of course, revolutionize our world.

I say, “Of course” because I have come to understand the importance, and far, far reaching implications of this technology, just as everyone else will as things unfold a little farther and they do their time at the School of Hard-Crypto-Knox, (though they will probably not experience the true wild-west landscape that was traversed by those who came before them). It now seems obvious to me, after several years of study and hands-on experience, and many a sleepless night discussing or contemplating the implications and the ripple effects of this new technology, that it will consume the old world, and the old way of doing things, and provide us with the stuff we have been waiting for that allows us to truly employ the power of the masses to remove and replace the greedy and psychotic few who are destroying our planet.

IT’S COMING….

For several years, the financial powers-that-be have publicly dismissed and denounced crypto-currency as a fad, a “fraud”, and a “bubble”. They have nervously called it a “fringe” hobby. Nothing to worry themselves over, they loudly proclaim, as they fidget with their ties. You can see them sweating. They shift too much while they smile and avoid those bothersome “Bitcoin questions” that keep popping up.

But it won’t remain in the fringes for much longer. $Crypto’s time has come. The boom will be like nothing the world has ever seen.

That boom will be fed by those bedazzled folks who have to find out what all the fuss is about. People are now more aware of Bitcoin, thanks to the parabolic price increase over the last few months. That means they are mostly at “square one” on the road to their new crypto habit. They are going through the “What’s this all about? Sounds like a scam, but it is sure going up in price fast…” phase.

They may even be experiencing the square one phase AGAIN, as some people can be hard, or truly impossible, to convince that Bitcoin and crypto currencies are anything but smoke, mirrors, shmarmalade and poppy cock. They keep a scowl for all things Bitcoin, and sling words and phrases like “Pyramid Scheme” and “Scam” around, as if that would somehow excuse the willful, petty ignorance it revealed. You can try to educate them, but you can’t lead a horse to water, so they say, even when they are aware the water is probably cleaner than they give it credit for!

So, I suppose one cannot blame them for seeming so often cranky, as they must periodically and unwillingly reestablish exactly why “Bitcoin is a scam” for their bemused audience, much to their joy and semi-faux chagrin, and they must do so in the face of consistently annoying price increases that are making everyone else money.

The cognitive dissonance experienced by these poor souls as Bitcoin smashes through barriers is fantastic to behold. It is akin to watching someone lose their religion, as they realize that in order to make sense of Bitcoin/crypto currency and what it enables a person to do, they must make painful admissions about the faults of the very financial system they use every day. They must admit the abuses of that system, and that Bitcoin/crypto provides solutions to those abuses. They have to admit crypto can save them money over bank costs, and that the inherent nature of Bitcoin provides a solution to inflation. That is a tough pill to swallow for your average brainwashed shill-for-the-oligarchs that doesn’t know that they don’t know.

"UM, O.K., BUT, LIKE, WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? WHAT MAKES BITCOIN DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ASSET CLASSES?

Well, I didn’t plan to get in to this at all, but here I am, reinventing the wheel of crypto info. This is a common occurrence when ANY crypto conversation starts, even if it one with myself. I just can’t get enough of typing the same thing a thousand times in slightly different ways, instead of using perfectly good cut and paste answers that are probably a lot better than mine.

Want to try something fun and learn at the same time? Try asking someone to describe a truly finite currency/asset/store of value to you. Make sure it someone with some trading experience and lots of Wall St. knowledge. Watch them squirm. They will reach, back pedal, and go through the various contortions necessary to arrive at the inevitable conclusion: Bitcoin is the first truly finite world-asset/currency/store of value, ever. There will never be more than 21 million Legacy Bitcoin (a name that is often used to describe the first Bitcoin blockchain). You can’t say the same thing about any other currency/asset class. There is always a way to find a little more gold, a little more oil, or print a few more metal coins, even if it means expending more resources than you would gain by acquiring the asset. But if you want more Bitcoin, you are going to have to pry it out of someone else’s cold, secure wallet, or you are going to have to pay their price to get it. There are no other ways to get them, once all 21 million have been mined, and are in other people’s hands.

The above aspects, in combination with Bitcoin’s other use-case attributes, make for a fantastic store-of-value, one of such a caliber the world has never seen. It is finite gold that can be moved from one end of the world to the other in moments, and it needs no guard, no banker, and no large, physical vault to store it safely and securely. It is magic money and a magic bank all wrapped in to one. It is a tool that enables greater freedom and power by and for the people, and thus it is a tool for a more evolved future civilization.

And that is why Bitcoin will eventually hit a million Central Bank Debt Notes. There is one original, delicious pizza, and everyone in the world will want a slice of it.

SO HOW WILL THIS EFFECT SOCIAL NETWORKING?

It would be more efficient to ask, “How won’t it effect social networking?”

I am writing this for Steemit. I am not writing it for any other platform, and I probably would not have written it if I did not have a chance of getting some STEEM for my troubles. I LOVE crypto currencies, and STEEMIT is one reason I quit Facebook. I would not have written this for Facebook. Their “Notes” were never easy to access or got much play (why??).

So fuck Facebook. I have somewhere to go, now, that allows me to blog for crypto, anonymously, and without A.I. scanning my fucking emotions for the deep creep state (I hope). How can you beat that? Who wouldn’t want that??? Money for blog posts and pics for free. The masses are coming. They will want it, and they will want it BAD.

“But won’t Facebook, like, just make FaceCoin?”

Sure, Facebook will SURELY tokenize. But they will likely go the way of other silly dinosaurs, and opt for a more (say it with me, Zuck!) centralized option. If you were Zuck, and your alien overlords were always on your case for more data, you wouldn’t want to give up all that valuable human life data that could be used to creep on people with, right? Of course not.

So they will probably tokenize, but do so in the most boring, depressing, privacy encroaching, mind-numbingly annoying Facebook way possible.

And soon after Facebook-Coin and a few other major corporate shitcoins hit the mainstream and get kids hooked up to the crypto world, the kids will take over and dig in to the real stuff, and start understanding the new ecosystem organically, unlike their parents and grandparents, who have to un-teach themselves decades of soon-to-be-extinct ways of doing things.

Then, the kids coins break out. Kissy coins, prissy coins, dissy coins, kitty coins, boyfriend coins, OMG coins, DOGE coins, BATMAN coins, FUCKPARENTS-COIN…they will be everywhere. Young people will figure out that crypto is a way to TRADE UP or OUT. They can take their money, and vote with it. They can ASSIGN VALUE and BOYCOTT in seriously meaningful, financially impactful ways. They can micro-tip their way to real democracy, and tokenize their way to independence.

O.K. SO COOL THEY HAVE KITTY COINS AND SHIT, SO WHAT? I ALREADY HAVE DOLLARS SO…

The most powerful way we can use crypto is to use it for all of our daily needs. Get paid in crypto, and pay debts/buy stuff with crypto, and you suddenly have no need for fiat currency at all! Your money is no longer tied to the whims of a bunch of thieves in nice suits. Pick the right coin to store your wealth, and you do not have to worry about it being devalued systemically so a bunch of criminal parasites can fatten the pockets of themselves and the rest of the ruling class on the backs of everyone else. Your usual currency is losing value/lame? Leave it and get another, superior one in its stead!

With $crypo, you can become your own bank and mint. You can take all that power back, bit by bit, until the banker’s debt-based paper is so unused and unwanted that it is literally left as toilet paper in the public bathrooms, because it is cheaper to use than actual toilet paper (something that actually happens in places where hyperinflation takes place).

Have a business? Tokenize it. Do a good business that offers incentives for use of your token/coin (whether it be an established one, like Bitcoin, or a custom one you created), and that token will gain value, and trade against other tokens as people buy and sell it. This will become a normal thing one does as money evolves over the next decades. We will be used to swapping one currency for another at exchange value in real time as we do business, and we will get used to having the power to assign value by buying someone’s token and urging friends to do the same. It will essentially bring the stock market to the masses, but within a decentralized, and thus more fair, financial ecosystem, and one with immutable ledgers.

Which brings us to Steemit, again. A tokenized, passionate, ideologically and otherwise motivated community of people, blazing an early, pioneering trail for the marriage between tradable crypto-currencies and a one-day fully decentralized social network (hopefully running on a decentralized internet). It is a powerful thing, this community, and to be sure, more and more people will find their way here. More and more will find their way out of the vast wasteland of monopolized, soulless, lie and ad-choked centralized social-media, and find themselves finally climbing forth from Plato’s cave, and seeing real, true sunlight for the first time. Real, TRUE freedom to speak their mind and be themselves, without fear of big brother, perhaps while wearing any mask or costume they wish, and exploring everything that such freedom allows one to explore.

And they will get paid for it.

There is so much more to say, so many points to ponder…

But I think that is enough for my first post. I will save all the other pap for future posts. There is so much to do before I can “rest”, eh? Changing the world, one post at a time, and all that. You know what I mean, right? After all, you’re reading this, aren’t you?

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