Contra

A banker bought an emperor in 1519 and got wiped out by the emperor’s grandson. How money learned to cross borders, and why the smaller country kept winning the war.

Bitcoin’s loudest fight of the year got 2% miner support. The heat is no longer about Bitcoin. Culture war bundling assumes one position implies thirty more, which kills coalitions. But polarization isn’t fate, since six of twelve democracies got less polarized over forty years. Be one sided about the money. Refuse the bait about the tribe.

The US government holds 328,000 bitcoin, has never bought one, and stored the keys in desk drawers. That’s the fourth most interesting thing in this piece.

America runs a second table civilization on first table credit it stopped depositing three generations ago. A Christian case for saying who made us.

They punish the person who finds the crime and reward the crime itself. That only works because government can print money without asking anyone. Take the printer away and every war, every prison budget, every failed drug war has to be asked for out loud, where people can say no. Bitcoin doesn’t fix corruption. It kills the printer.

A slave born in the house does not dream of freedom. He can't picture an outside, so he calls his cage contentment. You know something he doesn't, because it already happened to you once with your money. You cracked a wall and found a door. That crack isn't your failure. It's proof you can do the one thing the other rooms require.