Yeah, we're addicted to money. We're, uh, we've corrupted it. We've used it to incentivize

deception and violence. And I can't help but wonder what the world would look like if we move

to a world of honest money that can't be corrupted, can't be debased, can't be stolen via coercion

or violence.

How much would that change the general patterns of human action we observe in the world?

And so that's what gets me really excited for Bitcoin.

It's like a new substrate on which to build civilization.

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