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@ Daniella ✨
2025-05-17 09:54:39Because Bitcoin operates outside traditional financial and political systems, engaging with it can create cognitive dissonance.
This uneasy tension is felt in the space between a lifetime of systemic conditioning and the reality of a protocol that functions beyond anything we have ever known.
Bitcoin challenges deeply ingrained assumptions about what money is, who should control it, and how trust is established in society.
Many initially reject it because Bitcoin breaks the mental models we’ve relied on for understanding value, authority, and trust.
It’s not just adopting a new system; it’s detaching from the old one and any -ism we may personally identify with.
Before we dive in I would like to make an important note about our current system.
Modern Fiat is Not Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system in which private individuals or businesses own and control the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services, rather than the state.
The main features of this system are limited government intervention, a free market economy, and competition.
While we may believe we live in a capitalistic society, reality is very different:
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Governments Intervention: Governments intervene in free markets primarily through monetary expansion (money printing) and capital controls.
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Inflation and Redistribution: Printing increases the money supply, causing inflation that erodes purchasing power unevenly. Those who receive new money first gain at the expense of later recipients. Capital controls restrict market flows, distorting asset and currency prices.
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Cantillon Effect and Concentration: These mechanisms concentrate wealth and economic power among government insiders and favored corporations, who gain preferential access to resources. This leads to growing government influence and corporate monopolies.
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Systemic Distortions: Such interventions stifle innovation, reduce market competition, and undermine price signals essential to free market functioning.
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Therefore: Our modern fiat monetary system is not free market capitalism.
To quote Jeff Booth, from first principles:
> “In a free market, prices fall to the marginal cost of production; if they are not falling, we do not live in a free market. Communism and capitalism are the same system under manipulated money.”
Bitcoin is the first opportunity for humanity to experience a true free market where prices fall—a reality beyond fiat altogether.
Let’s explore how Bitcoin differs from fiat-based systems and economic theories.
Bitcoin vs. Major -isms
| Feature | Capitalism | Communism | Libertarianism | Bitcoin | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | | Ownership Model | Private, profit-driven | Collective, state-owned | Private, voluntary exchange | Individual, self-sovereign | | Control of Money | Central banks & private institutions | State-controlled | Privatized or gold-backed | Decentralized, algorithmic issuance | | Value Flow | Favors asset owners | Centralized and controlled redistribution | Market-driven | Distributed to all network participants | | Ideological Basis | Market efficiency, competition | Class struggle, equality | Individual freedom, non-intervention | Neutral protocol, transparency, free market | | Governance Structure | Market and government interplay | Centralized planning | Minimal state | Consensus among decentralized nodes | | Inflation Policy | Targeted via central banking | Controlled by state | Opposed to fiat inflation | Hard-capped supply: 21 million BTC | | Censorship Resistance | Low to moderate (depends on regime) | Low | Medium, still requires trust | Very high—no central chokepoint | | Accessibility | Varies by class and location | Controlled by state allocation | Varies by market access | Global, permissionless | | Moral Foundation | Efficiency and growth | Equity and solidarity | Autonomy and property rights | Mathematical integrity, sovereignty, transparency |
Bitcoin is not an -ism or a fiat system.
I don't see it as a way to make more fiat paper money either.
It’s a system outside the system that breaks all of our previous mental models.
A truly interdependent reality where the creativity, productivity, gifts, talents, and abilities of one serves all.
Sovereign individuals in service of the collective and vice-versa.
The Difficulty Categorizing Free Thinkers
In different conversations, and while discussing Bitcoin with non-Bitcoiners, I’ve been asked if I am an anarchist, capitalist, communist, liberal, or a libertarian.
Since I don’t identify with any political leaning or traditional ideology, I was sincerely confused when this first started happening—but now I see why.
Bitcoiners are notoriously difficult to place into political categories because their convictions often cut across traditional ideological boundaries.
To the outside observer, this can appear contradictory: a Bitcoiner might criticize the Federal Reserve like a libertarian, value personal personal sovereignty like an anarchist, and believe in sound money like a gold-standard capitalist.
These labels, however, fail to capture the deeper thread—I believe our views are aligned with a protocol in service of humanity, and shaped by a shared belief in a system that values humans rather than fiat-based incentives.
Bitcoin challenges the default left/right binary and exposes just how much our frameworks are built around centralized systems, division, and control.
When those systems are removed—as they are in Bitcoin—any traditional world view falls apart, along with all the labels and polarization that come with it.
To some, this may be why Bitcoiners seem ‘radical’ or ‘religious,’ because we have stepped outside their frame of reality entirely.
This protocol is not a revolution in the name of an ideology—it’s a revolution in the absence of one known to modern history.
Unlearning the Past, Embracing the Now
What makes Bitcoin truly disruptive isn’t just its technology—it invites us to question assumptions we didn’t even know we were making.
I still catch myself trying to compare Bitcoin to a "known" sometimes in this ongoing process of unlearning.
I think part of this evolution is catching myself and remembering, we are at the forefront of a new reality.
Our individual choices and actions are shaping what the post-fiat world will look like.
While for some, this will feel empowering and exciting, for others, this shift can feel unsettling, even threatening, as it calls into question the stability of the familiar.
This is one of the reasons why I see Bitcoin as being the initiator of an individual and collective spiritual awakening.
I can only encourage you to embrace the change—be the change—a powerful manifestor ushering in a new paradigm ✨
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