Bitcoin as a 2nd Amendment Right against Weaponized Currency
Bitcoin is a hedge against Tyranny and it is a fundamental right of the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/usconlaw/second-amendment.php
In order to maintain a well regulated Militia and keep the security of a free State the right of people to keep and bear Arms is currently infringed upon by Fiat currency that is dependent on a centralized bank controlled by a few members of various states. Increasingly the currency in question, the United States Dollar, is weaponized and its use is to control citizens, foreign interests, elections, education, healthcare and the bare necessities of life like food, water, clothing and shelter.
Bitcoin as a 2nd Amendment Right against Weaponized Currency.
There are many reasons to get into Bitcoin. Maybe you want to learn about the technology. Maybe you want to diversify your portfolio. Are you curious? Regardless of your reasoning there is a technology that exists without borders. All players involved have something to lose if there is any disruption.
If you are are citizen of this country you have already seen how our US Dollar has been used to control us by fines, taxes and labor. It has also been used against schools, cities, states, libraries and military units with regards to resources. In commerce there have been use cases where funding has been withdrawn, and accounts have been mysteriously closed. Even in retirement, pensions have been liquidated.
The rub is that we have to trust another party to hold our earnings, build our wealth by lending and spending and hopefully we get a return on this. Instead we have banks with low to zero interest rates. Banks charge us to cash checks. Money management funds charge us to hold our money. In the background the Federal Reserve prints new money and gives it to the banks for little to no interest rate and the banks while receiving this cash bounty do not pass on the savings to me and you.
Our homes are dependent on the ability of us to come up with currency to continue to enjoy heat, air-conditioning, water, sewage, supplies, exterior upkeep, local taxes, insurance and many more requisites. If at any point our external holdings are confiscated, lost or blatantly stolen we are forced out and onto the street.
Recession 101
In 2008 and 2009 we had a Great Recession. Banks were in liquidation due to the risky mortgages that many of their portfolios held. These securities were pegged onto the backs of sub-prime mortgages. These mortgages were pegged to adjustable rates. These adjustable rates were pegged onto the big tax breaks you would get for paying them. Taxes were pegged onto income. Income was pegged onto ability to earn. Earning ability was pegged onto education which was pegged onto student loans. Student loans were pegged onto tax breaks and tax breaks were pegged onto income. Income was pegged again on the ability to earn. Wages were pegged onto the "Minimum wage."
As of July 24, 2009, the current Federal Minimum Wage was and still is $7.25 (Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25 ) . In our state, Virginia, it is currently the same. This year 2020 is eleven years later. An item that was $7.25 USD now costs $8.86 according to the CPI Inflation Calculator. (The language is a bit misleading when it says buying power.) If we scale this, what was bought for $725.00 now costs $886.00 that is $161.00 more! Yet the current minimum wage is the same!
The average tax rate for US workers is 30%. So you can take Minimum wage $7.25 and get rid of $2.18 of that. Your disposable income is now: $5.08! Live on that!
Weaponized Money
The US Dollar is not pegged to anything other than conflict. Interesting no one really understands this. The case for this idea is strong. Our dollar is as effective as it is in the ability for it to violently solve conflicts. Without these conflicts we don't have much value in the cash because our ability to obtain its flow is based on the numerous military facilities, contracts and properties distributed throughout the United States.
Once you have a contract you are working for the value placed upon it and that value is controlled by banks. There is nothing evil here, it is just a fact. In return for working we all get paid in Fiat currency which is pegged onto the relationship it has with contracts around the world. Our fiat currency and other central bank fiats all have this relationship. That's just the way things are.
Governments, all governments, control this and use it as a weapon. It's the stick and carrot. Like many types of weapons governments like to regulate them so that criminals do not have access to to it. This makes all of us guilty before we are accused. Law abiding citizens pay dearly for the the privilege of Fiat. Criminals on the other-hand continue with their enterprises based upon obscurity and pleasure. Pleasure, you see, is the motivator for crime and it is empowered by the strict regulation of the state to control the ability of citizens to get goods, shelter, pleasure and bare necessities of life.
Bitcoin to the Rescue
In 2008 the Bitcoin Whitepaper was released: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
This peer to peer electronic cash system has been alive since that time. The trade from USD Fiat has risen from 0 to $20,000 and Currently it is valued at $9,500 +/- . Here is a chart: All Time Bitcoin $USD. From the middle 2017 the USD value of Bitcoin has not dropped below $3,000! In 2017 that $3,000 buying power now has to compete with $3159.41 or in other words it is worth $2840.59 today.
What makes Bitcoin resilient is its Open Source Software and Anyone can run a node philosophy. A node verifies transactions. A node also allows you to send and receive Bitcoin. Bitcoin is mined by miners who verify transactions. Node runners and miners protect the network from attack, corruption and deception. Any bitcoin address can be validated. Any transaction made on the network can be verified by anyone. It is not anonymous but it is open and both transactors can see that funds were in A and then they were in B and they did not need C to verify.
Of course this is not the exact truth about Bitcoin it is much more sophisticated. The basic idea and reality is this. It is a peer to peer payment system and protocol. It allows people to send value back and forth without intervention, censorship or control by governments. You can exchange your goods or Fiat for this Bitcoin! It can be transferred at 100,000,000th of a Bitcoin which is called 1 Satoshi. It is supported by many volunteers, professionals, non-government organizations and regular users like me and you.
The Wallet
Since you don't need government or a bank to hold your Bitcoin how does it work? It's a simple principal of encrypted ledger. The ledger that is open and redundantly verified throughout the planet also uses public encryption to control transactions. Wallets are accounts that are on the ledger. These wallets are controlled by the people who have the encryption keys. These keys are two part. One key is public so that someone can send to this address and the other is private so that the address holder can resend his or her funds to someone else.
The beauty of this is that the keys can be written down or memorized in a 12 word phrase. This phrase can be written on paper, stored electronically or stamped on a piece of metal and put into a safe. You can write a novel and put the phrase in the text and post it only for the world to see, but only you know where the words are!
You can travel with no electronic devices to anywhere in the world and you can at destination get a cheap smart phone. Install an Open Source Bitcoin Wallet. Put you key phrase in and Viola! your funds are available for you to use. This is good for everyone. Even a special ops team can use this. Spies can use this. Criminals can use this. Grandma can use this. It's like oxygen.
Conclusion
We here at Bitgnostic (BitGno) want to help propagate this technology and teach others to learn about it. We want all human beings to be able to have a Bitcoin account. We want all human beings to have the choice to engage in equal commerce with any other human being.
There are other Cryptocurrencies but we are focused on Bitcoin here. If you are interested in learning about this we offer workshops to teach you the ins and outs of Bitcoin from a novice perspective. We help you to remove obstacles, gain education, find your own path and become an ambassador of this wonderful technology.
It's like 1997 of the internet of money. This is the time now to jump on board make mistakes and find solutions.
You can invest only $1.00 USD and hold onto it. That's a small investment to get started. Really it's best to start with a couple hundred. That's it. Best of all. You control your own Bitcoin!
It's your fundamental right to bear arms and if money is weaponized you too should have the ability to hedge yourself against this threat.
