The nation state as the dominant and defining institution of our time may be on its way out with the emergence of Bitcoin.

If a government can print its own money, why do we have taxes?

You've got to keep them right there where you've sucked just enough blood out of that body that they can't rise.

Don't want the parasite to kill the hosts, right?

Government is like domesticating humans in a way, right?

People become docile, become complacent.

It's a hard thing to hear because we don't want to think of ourselves as animals.

If you're caught in the consensual dream that is cyberspace, how do you pinch yourself?

What is the Second Amendment you have in the cyberspacial realm?

If you want to fire an ad off my way, you've got to zap me some sats. When you make it costly for people to do things, they change how they act.

One thing that I would hope people would learn is that they are highly programmable.

If you don't take that seriously,

then you're gonna get programmed by someone else.

This is the first live money we've ever had.

Live money continues to live by adapting to its environment.

Every money that we've had previously has been matter.

Matter is energy in a potential state. It is dead money.

Dead money kills live money gives life.

Towards the end of our conversation yesterday, we were talking about,

talking about Lowry's book still,

Soft War, which holding here in my hands.

And then towards the end of the book,

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