This argument, more than anything has me convinced. It’s not about going to the moon: it’s about freedom.

“In early 2013, Mahboob’s Italian business partner told her about bitcoin. He said it was a new kind of money that could be sent from phone to phone without a bank account. Unlike the local afghani currency, which was steered by the government, bitcoin floated on the open market. When Mahboob first learned about bitcoin, it was trading at around $13. By the early summer of 2013, it broke $70. “At first, I did not think the girls would trust Bitcoin,” Mahboob said. “It was too hard to understand.” But her business partner encouraged her and said: “Let’s try it — what do we have to lose?” A few of the women did keep their bitcoin from 2013. One of them was Laleh Farzan. Mahboob told me that Farzan worked for her as a network manager, and in her time at Citadel Software earned 2.5 BTC. At today’s exchange rate, Farzan’s earnings would now be worth more than 100 times the average Afghan annual income. In 2016, Farzan received threats from the Taliban and other conservatives in Afghanistan because of her work with computers. When they attacked her house, she decided to escape, leaving with her family and selling their home and assets to pay brokers to take them on the treacherous road to Europe. Like thousands of other Afghan refugees, Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the way, dishonest middlemen and common thieves stole everything they brought with them, including their jewelry and cash. At one point, their boat crashed, and more belongings sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean. It’s a tragic story familiar to so many refugees. But in this case, something was different. Through it all, Farzan was able to keep her bitcoin, because she hid the seed to her bitcoin wallet on a piece of tiny, innocuous-looking paper. Thieves could not take what they could not find.”

Excerpt from “Broken Money” by Lyn Alden.

They control your banks. They control your employer. They control your tax rate. Insiders trade your stocks and manipulate your IRAs. With dilution/QE they can tax your savings by devaluing it and you have no control over that.

Bitcoin is like the second amendment for money. It’s about control.

I see a lot of fear in this sub. If you’re afraid, you don’t understand how money works, or you’re over leveraged.