Bitcoin derives it's value from it's use-case to store value, digitally across multiple nodes around the world in a decentralized way.
This means there is no entity to take down, or for to go mad with power. It simply exists as the internet does. If the internet or power goes down, the world would be fucked as it resolves into panic. But every single hard drive with a copy of the bitcoin ledger would have to be altered in exactly the same way (at the same time online) for the system to be hacked. Every hard drive would have to be destroyed for your reflecting balance on the last block to be lost. If your bank blew up, your balance would be lost. If your government goes mad with power, your fiat will become worth less than the labor of carrying it. Furthermore concerning value, there is a finite supply of bitcoin, a golden meteor can hit america and wipe it out, killing the demand for it, while doubling the supply. If civilization is truly entering an awakened state, our materialistic value would fall away and gold would be worth the little use case it has.
The block chain is the innovation of trusting each other by letting everyone look at all transaction taking place and agreeing on them. New use cases for the block chain include proof of work, proof of stake, proof of concept, proof of IDENTITY, proof of location, and even proof of existence. These use cases keep emerging as early innovators reap the growth of holding bitcoin. Big companies and even the banks and governments are getting in on the action. Most of these innovations are in the development phase and need the world's funding power to realize their vision, so go vote for the companies with a clear vision and a strong body to carry this out.
The money hungry worms behind our misguided capitalistic world are also amongst our dreamers and believers that want to make a difference for more then just their own sake, even some dreamers have turned to the dark side as power fills their minds. Companies get created around bitcoin and get's taken down by their government if they do not fall under regulation, an innovator with 'power' cannot blatantly state that he is aiming at disrupting the system of the people in control, he will be made an example out of. The real game changers are working with the system as power gets redistributed. The people in power are blinded by ignorance and their hunger for a piece of crypto's pie will be their downfall, once they realize we no longer see their need, it will be to late, they will not have more (previously perceived-) 'power' than the average adopter of the new world.
On that note I would like to advocate bitcoin and the need for a trust-less system. Imagine the story; Lord of the flies. A group of kids are stranded on an island and looses all civilization without it's rules and guidelines. I do not support the book's conclusion but I agree with the story. Once the fucked up side of people that shows itself at the end of the book is what would trigger change.
For human-kind to rise, we must experience some kind of fall, for if we keep rising we know we are probably on some kind of delusional wrecking ball. Once certain issues have been confronted, a resolution would occur and future resolutions would be built on previous resolutions. I believe our sense of reality is built on a number of false resolutions put into place for personal gain, these supports are crumbling and we might fall, only to rise in a real-free market where ethical-capitalist pillars can be built in the place of our current system or we can fall into the mad max fantasy and evolve from there.
Back to Lord of the flies. The kid's relationship was build around the need to trust, there was no mommy or daddy or teacher to validate the information they were sharing, just as in the real world, we need the service of a bank to confirm trust that we have been paid from someone else or are abiding by the rules as set out by the governing body in order to come to a conclusion. The block chain allow all the kids on the island to know exactly what each person is up to or effected by so no schemes or sense of delusional bubble mentality can occur. They furthermore do not need a parent to tell them what to do because they all have to be in consensus about a subject in order for them to move forward on a decision.
This system only improves as more nodes get involved and the bigger the track record of this proven system gets. Before globalization was a thing, is where the kids are on the island now. Once they find other islands with other groups of kids their resolutions would intertwine and a better resolution would be proposed, this is where we are now, except most of our leaders and the leader's influences are corrupt, not because the position corrupts, but corrupt people will find their way into the sweetest apple.
Distrust in our service providers of trust is causing chaos and a way to deal with each other without NEEDING to trust, because trust now simply exists through the method of the block chain, has come to light. I believe our fall might not be as big because we can take the system without destroying it. We have an alternative in crypto and we need just transition before the old system collapses. The old system is presenting itself in the crypto sphere with products that promise many things, like big returns and 'free money'. Just keep in mind why we need bitcoin and the block chain, think if the company that you are thinking of supporting, are supporting the old way of doing things, or are they working to a better future?
My belief is that fiat will end up in the hands of the 'poor' communities, this will empower them to rise to the digital world eventually, here is my article on this matter.
here is my link to a propsal on how to solve the problem that all the forks are trying to resolve. By burning the amount of bitcoins with which you want to transact with into fractions of that bitcoin, the bitcoin community could create this coin tied directly to bitcoin in the sense that 100 bitcoin silver represents a bitcoin, and a 100 bitcoin copper would be one silver, like in most mmorpg's. At the end of the month, your business burns all it's bitcoin silver and copper into bitcoin again, adding to the big ledger, and subtracting from the forked ledger. The forked ledger would always match up with the bigger ledger, and value would remain in the system.
For now, stick with the smart people, the ones that have 'bettering the world' and not just the stakeholders in mind, because a 'better world' is approaching. choose the right side.
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