With every new installment of this sequence, the Clown World simulation takes it up a notch.
Part Three kicked off with the stupidity occurring in Canada.
Part Four is now being written proper within the midst of a geopolitical clusterfuck during which each aspect is mendacity, maneuvering and propagandizing, whereas harmless people who simply need to stay in peace are being terrorized, displaced and killed.
Anyone who nonetheless has religion in trendy “governments” of any variety at this level is past assist.
This insanity is all a operate of the “representative state.” I do not care if it’s Russia, NATO, the U.S., the EU or Ukraine itself. None of those entities are harmless. Only the people and households dwelling inside their bullshit borders are.
Volodymyr Zelensky is simply as responsible as Vladimir Putin. He and his recently-discovered $1.2 billion in an offshore account, are a main instance of how “democratically elected representatives” merely use the very folks they’re supposed to serve, for their personal ends. Whilst harmless folks die, he’s posing for images, making offers with different politicians and actually acting with Sean Penn. While his folks are locked out of the financial system, he and his cronies’ salaries are being paid by the wealth confiscated through taxes from those self same folks.
None of the decision-makers, on any aspect, are truly being displaced, killed, shot at or experiencing the destruction of their livelihoods. The speaking heads, politicians and so-called “human rights” charlatans like Garry Kasparov, are brazenly calling for battle as a result of they have NO private pores and skin within the sport.
The solely human rights these frauds consider in are those they get funded to flip into propaganda. And they’ll play hawk over social media like little keyboard warriors, within the hopes to spark a bigger battle in order that they can level the finger and say: “See. I was right.”
Absolute egomaniacs.
Hey Kasparov, if you need battle, how about you go combat it your self?
This continued insanity is all a operate of “rulers” and their pet “presenters” experiencing no consequence for their actions. If something, the one “consequence” is private enrichment.
The ends which they play all of those video games for simply occur to embody you and I as expendable pawns, and when the worth for one’s enrichment is any individual else’s blood, you may be virtually sure that blood might be spilled.
The following passage from Nassim Taleb’s “Skin in the Game” shines an abundantly clear gentle on this, and reminds us why the present model of insanity in Russia/Ukraine (or for that matter, another trendy battle) not solely exists, however why it’s in truth a historic aberration:
“…owning one’s risk was an inescapable moral code for the past four millennia, until very recent times. Warmongers were required to be warriors. Fewer than a third of Roman emperors died in their bed (assuming those weren’t skillfully poisoned). Status came with increased exposure to risk: Alexander, Hannibal, Scipio, and Napoleon were not only first in battle, but derived their authority from a disproportionate exhibition of courage in previous campaigns. Courage is the only virtue that can’t be faked (or gamed like metrics). Lords and knights were individuals who traded their courage for status, as their social contract was an obligation to protect those who granted them their status. This primacy of the risk-taker, whether warrior (or, critically, merchant), prevailed almost all the time in almost every human civilization; exceptions, such as Pharaonic Egypt or Ming China, in which the bureaucrat-scholar moved to the top of the pecking order were followed by collapse.” — Nassim Taleb
We’ll develop on this within the “Monarchies” part beneath, however suffice it to say that you simply gained’t see these representatives convey the battle to their doorstep. They’ll be sending emails from their comfortable home-office within the Hamptons whereas drawing a wage, paid for by you, and receiving “donations” from the cronies at present profiteering.
In reality, that’s the worst a part of this whole insanity. Modern governments proceed to play these video games as a result of we’re not solely silly sufficient to assign them that “right,” however we additionally pay them for it!
Should we make it by means of the Great Filter, our descendants will shake their heads on the stupidity that non-economic, democratic governance was.
I look ahead to an age the place duty and consequence are reintroduced, the place energy is concentrated in distributed, aggressive nodes, and democracy is however a reminiscence. I’ve religion that Bitcoin will accomplish that, and alter the course of human growth “forever … Laura … forever.”
Monarchies
Skin within the sport is what makes monarchies superior to democracies, or another trendy, representative-run state.
The level illustrated above by Taleb makes a convincing case for monarchy > democracy alone, however allow us to delve additional:
- Monarchies, within the extra conventional sense (not a lot the lizardry of modernity) are run by a non-public property proprietor (albeit a big one). As a consequence, their property is their capital and its preservation is naturally incentivised. Yes, a moron monarch could make poor selections and burn by means of the capital in change for “present cash flow,” however the base tendency is in any other case. The converse is true for consultant dEmOcRaCiEs as we outlined in components One and Two of the sequence.
- The hereditary nature of monarchies is additionally a bonus. It’s a localized focus of energy extra simply held accountable, and when mixed with personal property incentives, ought to produce extra simply “leaders” than the recognition contest winners in a democracy who will lie, cheat, steal and do something to get into energy.
- Numbers 1 and a pair of above mixed with pores and skin within the sport incline monarchs towards longer-term decision-making for the preservation of their personal property, for their financial viability and for the continuation of their hereditary lineage. This decrease time desire and proximity to financial penalties create a superior surroundings for wise financial coverage, taxation and laws (however the inherent stupidity of all three).
These components remind me of a passage from Hans-Herman Hoppe’s; “Democracy, The God That Failed.”
“Historically, the selection of a prince was through the accident of his noble birth, and his only personal qualification was typically his upbringing as a future prince and preserver of the dynasty and its status and possessions. This did not assure that a prince would not be bad and dangerous, of course. However, it is worth remembering that any prince who failed in his primary duty of preserving the dynasty, who wrecked or ruined the country, caused civil unrest, turmoil and strife, or otherwise endangered the position of the dynasty faced the immediate risk of either being neutralized or assassinated by another member of his own family.
“On the flip side, with a strong education and a princely upbringing, a monarch was far more inclined to be a functional ruler than the kind of character who rises through the political ranks of a democracy.” — Hoppe
Note that like Hoppe, I neither counsel we return to monarchies, nor defend taxation, financial coverage or laws of any variety. I merely current it right here to evaluate the pure tendencies current in monarchies versus democracies (or different consultant governments).
There is certainly a spectrum of madness, and while monarchies can rating excessive factors with fool rulers, establishments like democracy will all the time rating highest.
There is way more to discover on this subject however additional examination is past the scope of this essay. To do it justice, it is best to take the time to learn Hoppe’s e book in its entirety.
My objective is merely to take a look at the weather of emergent fashions of governance, monarchies being essentially the most natural of all, and see how we will adapt them to a world during which Bitcoin exists. A world the place taxation can not simply be enforced, financial inflation is inconceivable, financial coverage is a historic joke, laws and forms are costly, losses can’t be socialized, the place residents are prospects, the place fiscal prudence and duty are virtues that territory operators exhibit not by means of phrases, however needed actions as a result of there are no bailouts.
This is what I’m focused on, and what we’ll discover as we proceed on this fourth installment.
My final phrases on monarchy within the part I shall go away to Frank Herbert, the visionary writer of the Dune sequence:
“The pattern of monarchies and similar systems has a message of value for all political forms. My memories assure me that governments of any kind could profit from this message. Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities.
“They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy.
“They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place. It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is temporary. It is galling to be held in place against your will. This is why I teach about tyranny in the best possible way by example.
“Even though you read these words after a passage of eons, my tyranny will not be forgotten. My Golden Path assures this. Knowing my message, I expect you to be exceedingly careful about the powers you delegate to any government.” — Leto The Tyrant; The Stolen Journals. “God Emperor of Dune.” by Frank Herbert
Socialism
We’ve spent a complete sequence on democracy, so there is no want to discover that mannequin any additional. Let us as a substitute flip our consideration to socialism. We all know that socialism’s many incarnations have failed, regardless of whether or not they begin with the c or the f phrase. Many of us even know why it fails, many times, i.e.; it’s a ridiculous, anti-life, pro-entropy concept.
Despite this, there is a complete cohort of individuals on the market calling themselves “progressive Bitcoiners” and even “socialist Bitcoiners.”
It’s baffling. So let’s clear one thing up:
Socialism CANNOT exist on a Bitcoin commonplace.
Bitcoin strikes social order and operation onto an financial commonplace and the thought of a “socialist economy” is merely a contradiction in phrases.
In order for an economic system to exist, there should be calculation. In flip, there should exist each personal property and decentralized info stream (the very best constancy being the pricing engine of the free market) to derive the values from which to make these calculations.
In a socialist setting, this is inconceivable as a result of allocations of sources are pre-ordained and there is no room for arithmetic calculation for the aim of higher utilization or economisation of sources, time or vitality.
If no personal property exists and no pricing can exist, then no type of calculation nor economisation can exist, that means we are squarely within the realm of “politik.”
In that sense, socialism, communism and their collectivist cousins are all types of financial regression and reversion to a type of primitivism. They haven’t any place on a Bitcoin commonplace, which is essentially financial and evolutionary in nature.
Bitcoin is NOT political. It is uncooked, natural capitalism in motion. It embodies each the static (e.g., immutable timechain), and the dynamic (e.g., mempool, the market). It is chaos which by means of an emergent, probabilistic course of, creates order.
There is no central administration or order by committee. The penalties of being on such a typical can’t be predetermined, nor can calculations be made for the financial actions of people constituting the better system who every management the keys to their personal wealth (their personal personal property).
There are irreconcilable inconsistencies at each layer, and as such, there can’t be socialist territories (at any scale past maybe the Dunbar quantity) on a Bitcoin commonplace patchwork of city-states. We should suppose past these damaged paradigms.
Anarchy And Anarchism
Anarchy, aka the “law of the jungle” is concurrently the least understood and most vilified of all modes of human group, regardless of being “the natural state of things.”
By advantage of dwelling in trendy cities, below “rule by government,” folks consider we’ve in some way transcended the jungle, when in truth all we’ve performed is rework it.
Just as a result of we stay in a statist paradigm, doesn’t imply that these “states” don’t compete on a macro-anarcho-paradigm (however the push towards a centrally-managed globalist state during which jurisdictional arbitrage and experimentation is eroded).
The relationships between China, Russia, North Korea, the EU and the U.S., while at occasions seemingly coordinated, are truly anarchic. They function in their personal self-interest and can coordinate when it fits their personal geo-political agendas – solely their coordination or agendas presuppose the compelled compliance of their citizenry. In different phrases, they function within the realm of anarchy and we are compelled to function within the realm of slavery.
The following quote by Juvenal, nested in a quote by Edmund Burke, nested in a quote by Benjamin Marks, editor-in-chief at Economics.org.au sums this up properly:
“Even absolute government fails to escape anarchy. The supreme judge has no superior authority; he is in a state of anarchy. Every criticism of anarchy in defense of government therefore fails, for no one ever governs the governors and we never really get out of anarchy; yet it is precisely for the combating of anarchy that government is defended. Edmund Burke called this the ‘grand error upon which all … legislative power is founded’:
“It was observed, that men had ungovernable passions, which made it necessary to guard against the violence they might offer to each other. They appointed governors over them for this reason; but a worse and more perplexing difficulty arises, how to be defended against the governors?
“‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’”
[Juvenal’s “Who will govern the governors?]
Therein lies a big problem, and one that no amount of absolute government can ever solve; for the more absolute a government, the more tyrannical it becomes.
So if anarchy is inescapable, and merely comes in different flavors, shapes and sizes, what do we do?
First of all, recognize that it’s the natural state of things and that you’ve likely come into contact with it. Secondly, separate the organizing principle of “voluntarily-adopted rules,” from the extra controversial “rejection of rulers.” You’ll shortly notice it’s neither scary, nor nuts.
Your native Sunday farmers’ market is an area instance of anarchy, the place self-interested distributors (regardless of how pleasant and altruistic they are towards one another) congregate to promote their items with out the necessity for some bureaucratic authority to inform them what to do.
All free markets are the identical in truth. They stem from anarchy, and they discover their personal equilibrium with out the necessity for some fool bureaucrat to “regulate” it and get in the best way.
The query is not ‘“how do we avoid that reality,” but “how do we live with it?”
The answer always lies in fostering stronger individuals, stronger communities and allowing the market to drive innovation in the protection and preservation of private property (the law). Humans and the groups they voluntarily form are perfectly capable of doing so in the absence of a monopoly on violence. We’ve been doing it lengthy earlier than “the State” arrived, and can accomplish that lengthy after it dissolves.
Bitcoin will as soon as once more allow anarchy at smaller scales in order that humanity can flourish by means of competitors and cooperation, not flounder by means of compulsion.
Of course, as we make this transition (as is the aim of this sequence of essays) we are going to need to grow to be acquainted with the totally different flavors of anarchy, and their modalities.
To start with, we have now “anarchism.”
As the identify suggests it is an try to codify anarchy right into a mode of coexistence. The core precept is that particular person freedom can solely be achieved if the facility one can wield is restricted to energy over oneself. The boundary of 1’s freedom is one other’s property, and people who attempt to assume energy over others face expulsion by the people making up stated society.
The anarcho-capitalist variation is the identical besides it emphasizes the central significance of personal property rights (the boundary and limitation) and the capitalist course of (the driving force for progress). Of all kinds, this appears to be essentially the most logically constant and sensible.
The anarcho-socialist model is just like the three-wheeled car, that’s neither tricycle, nor automotive, that neither works, nor is logically constant. Don’t waste your time with such stupidity.
Voluntaryism, involved extra with interactions than energy, is simply the extra “acceptable” model of anarchism. It recognises {that a} free and practical society is dependent upon the free and voluntary participation of the people constituting it — a precept deeply embodied in Bitcoin, and exhibited at your native farmers’ market.
Agorism is a extra activist model of the theoretical anarchist modalities, the place all relations between folks are voluntary, however folks additionally have interaction in counter-economic actions to decrease what they contribute to the state within the type of taxes, license charges, and many others. I assume this is a extra transitional modality, and maybe much less relevant on a Bitcoin commonplace. We shall see.
Note that the frequent thread in all of those logically constant variations of anarchism is not the absence of guidelines, however particularly the absence of rulers.

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This distinction is so vital to word.
The cognitively-functional proponents of anarchism recognise that each one video games and types of group require guidelines, however they reject the thought of “rulers” who can change the principles, i.e., the elected or absolute variety. They know the state equipment needed for such rulers to rule nearly ensures that essentially the most adept criminals simply coalesce round it. Once hijacked, they can merely change the principles in their favor or pressure others to undertake guidelines they’ve concocted.
That is why stupidities like democracy all the time find yourself working towards the very “citizens” who voted for it!
That is additionally why Mikhail Bakunin’s maxim is so correct:
Anarchy is simply the pure, voluntary group of free, mature, accountable people who consider that the market can present something folks want higher, quicker, cheaper, than the federal government can in its vacuum of financial consequence.
I do know it’s laborious for some folks to come to phrases with this straightforward actuality. Maybe it’s as a result of they’re internally insufficient and secretly yearn to be instructed what to do, or maybe it’s a projection of their personal want to rule over others. Or a mix.
Whatever the case, folks like Peter McCormack who criticize anarchy and the non-aggression precept (NAP) by calling failed states like Somalia, examples of “libertarianism” are moronic. Conflating the “protection of private property rights” with “the State” doesn’t make you edgy or “realistic.” It makes you uninformed.
The whole disagreement boils down to an incapability to comprehend that a person can defend themselves, nor that another type of group or market-emergent group can defend and protect property rights.
Newsflash #1: Individuals are their greatest first responders.
Newsflash #2: The authorities sucks at defending you.
Newsflash #3: The cornerstone of libertarianism and logically-consistent types of anarchy is personal property rights. The drawback in Somalia is their full absence! The needed limitations and limits for peaceable coexistence are not current in failed states, the place pure chaos reigns. There is no capitalist course of. There is no personal property. There is solely theft and plunder, the very evils libertarians and anarcho-capitalists stand towards.
So, no, Somalia is not libertarian, not anarchism, nor even anarchy. It is the blind, unhinged chaos of a failed state with no ethical compass or guidelines.
I need to quote Frederic Bastiat right here once more, as I’ve in earlier components of this sequence:
“[E]very time we object to a thing being done by government, [defenders of government intervention claim] that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of education by the state — then we are against education altogether. We object to a state religion — then we would have no religion at all. We object to an equality which is brought about by the state then we are against equality, etc., etc. They might as well accuse us of wishing men not to eat, because we object to the cultivation of corn by the state.” — Frederic Bastiat, 1850
A monopoly on violence (such because the case in Somolia) doesn’t repair this. It simply offers the largest thug the weapons and the authorized proper to use them, then devolves into the establishment the place these we wish to defend ourselves from congregate.
Instead of a sturdy society during which personal property rights are before everything enforced by the person, after which protected by a market of aggressive suppliers, we find yourself with a bureaucratic equipment that makes use of its monopoly to encroach upon the very property rights it was instantiated to defend.
An anarchist society is one which tendencies towards power, resilience, independence and duty. It is smaller, nimbler and extra values-aligned internally. All the providers the state gives, from regulation, to licensing, to judicial, policing and protection can all be higher supplied by aggressive personal entities who are accountable to the client and the market.
The solely factor we do by centralizing these needed providers, and bestowing their provision to a monopoly is we give the criminals a crevice to initially conceal, after which an equipment to wield in “legally” perpetrating their crimes.
Localism
Localism is the pure antithesis to globalism.
It’s the concept that as a substitute of 1 bureaucratic committee making selections on behalf of bigger and bigger populations, that native our bodies ought to govern native populations primarily based on the distinctive cultures, values and concepts of their native territory.
In reality, I would come with the distinctive terrain and sources of their native geography too.
The finish objective for globalism is that one committee decides all the pieces for everybody on the planet. Brainlets suppose this is a good suggestion as a result of they view people as linear entities to be plugged right into a spreadsheet and easily shuffled round like numbers.
Localism, however, assumes complexity is the usual and recognises that various people can’t be herded into one route, below one directive, like senseless sheep.
Localism is constructed across the household unit and initiatives outward to the tribe (e.g., prolonged household, neighbors) after which neighborhood. By definition it doesn’t scale past that which is “local,” as a result of its mechanisms for belief are popularity and relationships. In different phrases it has a pure limiting think about that it can not work for populations giant sufficient for reputations to get misplaced. Restraints to poor conduct naturally emerge as a means to make sure you’re not ejected from the area people or society.
In distinct distinction, giant territories that embody tens of millions and even a whole bunch of tens of millions of individuals, the place the potential looters have no idea their victims, and vice versa, the human want to enrich oneself at one other’s expense is topic to little or no restraint. Democracy is the top of this anti-achievement.
Democracy breaks down the household unit by changing dependence on household bonds with dependence on the State. The authorities turns into the father or mother, the caretaker, the guardian, the nanny, the uncle, the aunt and in time, your overlord.
There’s a motive why phrases like “Nanny State” and “Uncle Sam” have emerged to describe the equipment of presidency.
Democracy is anti duty and assaults society at its very core and most vital stage; the person. When you take away duty you rework people into infants. This course of turns right into a self-reinforcing downward spiral the place the extra childish folks grow to be, the extra they require a nanny state; and the better the nanny state grows, the extra infantilised people grow to be.
This is what we’re seeing in society as we speak. The lots have degenerated past the standing of even sheeple and grow to be real-life lemmings, marching proper off the cliff.
Localism is a philosophy of duty, relationships, popularity and strong communities disavowing each reliance and dependence on large-scale authorities establishments.
It is not solely extra morally constant as a result of it permits people to coalesce round comparable values, creating inner homogeneity (peace) and exterior heterogeneity (range), but it surely is for comparable causes the one economically viable means to function a territory. It’s like an extension of the “1000 true fans” idea from Kevin Kelly, or just the thought of a distinct segment. Niches are way more worthwhile. Mass market solely stays viable insofar because the machinations of the state create Cantillon results that allow zombie companies and insiders to stay aggressive by extraction, regulatory moats and entry to free cash.
Localism is the treatment to globalism, however to ensure that it to achieve success, there wants to be a treatment for politics and statism first. There should exist unbreakable financial “bounds” which we’re all held accountable to by advantage of their existence. I don’t have to let you know by now what “fixes this.”
Localism and Bitcoin are appropriate. In reality, they’re greater than appropriate; they’re like blood and physique, or fish and ocean. For localism to work and never be destroyed by some bumbling bureaucratic fools (or unhealthy actors), the price of defending one’s wealth should be low, and the consequence for non-economic (i.e., politically deranged) conduct should be excessive and fast.
Localism is the pure state, however the pure state can not thrive, not to mention survive when the synthetic state envelopes, consumes and destroys all the pieces round you.
Localism and large-scale governance modalities, like democracy, however are fully inappropriate.
We will get to localism in the long run. The world should and can fragment. The solely query is how can we get there?
Will we nonetheless have the infrastructure we’ve spent centuries constructing nonetheless accessible to us, or will we blow all of it to items and wind up in a “localist” paradigm with expertise no extra subtle than the Amish … or worse.
My hope is that we fragment into city-states and rework the capital that is at present being wasted consciously. Local-scale governance appears to be the place optimum financial efficiency will lie, alongside containing an optimum variety of folks to obtain each economies of scale with out the diseconomies of scale notable in giant scale cities, states or nation-states.
In Closing
Bitcoin is concurrently voluntary, and important.
It is each chaos and order. It is bodily and metaphysical.
It’s a dwelling, respiratory paradox on so many ranges.
It permits folks to grow to be sovereign over the product of their labor, arguably an extension of their property past their ideas, concepts, physique and household, which comes with ramifications that we’re but to really fathom.
It offers folks a selection to create what they need with their wealth and experiment with new types of cooperation, governance and coexistence, which is able to inevitably lead to each profitable and failed experiments.
We will concurrently see anarchy, small-scale communes, new types of hierarchical order and fairly probably an age of contemporary monarchies; which we will discover in Part Five.
Some of you might have considered trying to show me flawed and construct a communist or socialist utopia on a Bitcoin commonplace, at some point.
And by all means, if you need to go forward and construct a metropolis during which you ask that members share their wealth round by the need of some type of centrally-managed committee, go for it. I don’t suppose many individuals will keep, however you’re free to attempt it out.
The complete level of Bitcoin is to make compelled collectivism inconceivable.
What succeeds in the long run I have no idea, however primarily based on rules of what we’ve mentioned on this sequence, and the works by the greats we’ve quoted, we will make some assumptions.
I would like to shut this out with one thing for you to ponder earlier than the fifth and ultimate installment of the sequence…
The Mob
I used to be in an Uber in Las Vegas final week and the driving force stated essentially the most fascinating factor …
There was a capturing at a shopping mall close by the situation he was dropping us off at. He instructed us to watch out after which offhandedly stated:
“This would never have happened while the mob ran the place.”
I discovered this profoundly fascinating. Here was clearly a conservative man, most likely in his mid-fifties, professional “law and order,” advocating for … the mob?
I requested him about who runs Vegas today. He responded (I’m paraphrasing):
“The corporate mob came and took over from the old mob. The old guys aren’t allowed anywhere near here anymore, and the guys who took over don’t give a crap.”
This gentleman recognised “the mob” was an establishment of legislation and order, and though he could not have articulated it this fashion, as a result of the OG mob was economically accountable (i.e., they couldn’t print or tax their means out of a mistake), the providers they rendered had been far superior to these their damaged authorities of Las Vegas at present gives.
This is in step with the concept that the federal government is merely the largest “mob,” with essentially the most gun-wielding thugs. They win not as a result of they’re the most effective, however as a result of they’re in a position to fund themselves by means of essentially the most widespread types of theft (taxation and inflation) and acquire the next “monopoly on violence” to solidify their energy.
Knowing this, essentially the most adept criminals merely undertake the maxim, “If you’ll be able to’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”
This is why governments and legal monopolies of any kind are so dangerous. They become the very thing they were instituted to protect us from.
I later reflected on his comments, and it reminded me of James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg’s “Sovereign Individual.” Throughout the e book, they level out the rise of mobs and gangs towards the backdrop of the failing state. As energy constructions crumble, new entrants will emerge to fill these voids.
I ponder what the altering world order will appear like as criminals notice the best equipment for theft is not the state? Will they stand up as soon as once more and muscle in?
How will mobs type on an emergent Bitcoin commonplace?
Will these territories be run in truth, by economically accountable “mobs” who supply safety providers at a fairer market price than the present governments we are topic to?
Will the households that run these mobs resemble mini-monarchies?
I don’t know, however chaos will certainly ensue till a brand new, steady anarchy is achieved.
Until subsequent time …
This is a visitor put up by Aleks Svetski, Author of The UnCommunist Manifesto, The Bitcoin Times and Host of anchor.fm/WakeUpPod. Opinions expressed are fully their personal and don’t essentially mirror these of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.