https://preparingyou.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=CalebeatonPreparingYou - User contributions [en]2026-09-06T03:00:15ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.2https://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_v_Real_Estate&diff=83607Bitcoin v Real Estate2026-09-05T22:47:17Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Series: Rethinking Real Estate in a Bitcoin World */</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">70% of Americans can’t afford a median home. Why?<br><br>Broken money forced people to use real estate as savings, making homes unaffordable. Houses aren’t savings accounts, they’re meant to be lived in.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> demonetizes housing, drives prices down and puts families back in homes. <a href="https://t.co/Rs8HhRtrWe">pic.twitter.com/Rs8HhRtrWe</a></p>&mdash; Jack Mallers (@jackmallers) <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1959982043426603160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Corrupt money corrupts every market, especially the housing market, which is used as an alternative savings account as money is being printed and debased.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> fixes this colossal scam.<br><br> <a href="https://t.co/JxuQUGNm3a">pic.twitter.com/JxuQUGNm3a</a></p>&mdash; Robert ₿reedlove (@Breedlove22) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breedlove22/status/1893821607715496042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Renting is not a waste of money<br><br>You&#39;re paying to consume the property<br><br>You&#39;re getting shelter<br><br>The owner doesn&#39;t get access to the property during the time that you&#39;re using it as a renter<br><br>Fiat currencies make it seem like real estate values increase over time<br><br>But in terms of… <a href="https://t.co/0q1xkvJcj9">pic.twitter.com/0q1xkvJcj9</a></p>&mdash; Rajat Soni, CFA (@rajatsonifnance) <a href="https://twitter.com/rajatsonifnance/status/1987384355992264940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Why Bitcoin is Better than Real Estate ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You don&#39;t have to be a Bitcoiner to see how fucked the fiat central banking system truly is. (But it helps.) <br><br>OC: Chris Kohler News <a href="https://t.co/ZEMSo4MM3z">pic.twitter.com/ZEMSo4MM3z</a></p>&mdash; My Favorite Thing About Bitcoin (@thesatdaddy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thesatdaddy/status/1957240503147397407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW: Is Larry Fink’s $350 Trillion Real Estate Bubble COLLAPSING Into Bitcoin!? 👀 <a href="https://t.co/dPXMOzbtus">pic.twitter.com/dPXMOzbtus</a></p>&mdash; Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoinTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1977385793510334548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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== Scarcest Asset on Earth ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jack Mallers says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> is “like discovering the scarcest digital land known to man before the rest of the world wraps their head around it.” <a href="https://t.co/wxJX4xEmTH">pic.twitter.com/wxJX4xEmTH</a></p>&mdash; Bitcoin News (@BitcoinNews21M) <a href="https://twitter.com/BitcoinNews21M/status/1931425501098435034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;This house was $1.4 million 4 years ago. Now it&#39;s $2.1 million... It was 300 bitcoin 4 years ago. Now it&#39;s 22 bitcoin. In 4 years, this house will be 2 bitcoin... it&#39;s a really bad store of value compared to Bitcoin.&quot; - <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBooth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffBooth</a> w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WalkerAmerica</a><br> <a href="https://t.co/naT460nUZm">pic.twitter.com/naT460nUZm</a></p>&mdash; THE Bitcoin Podcast (@titcoinpodcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/titcoinpodcast/status/1943151310020263951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Real Estate as wealth protection will move to bitcoin ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">People borrow hundreds of thousands to buy a pile of lumber, plastic, and drywall that decays and goes out of style over time.<br><br>And yet, after 30 years, that $500,000 house is somehow worth $2.16 million.<br><br>Your house didn’t get better.<br>The money got worse.</p>&mdash; Joe Burnett, MSBA (@IIICapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1911038961172033692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jack Mallers of <a href="https://twitter.com/Strike?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Strike</a> believes <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$BTC</a> will grow to HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS in market cap 🤯 <a href="https://t.co/sjOlvIAbnU">pic.twitter.com/sjOlvIAbnU</a></p>&mdash; CryptosRus (@CryptosR_Us) <a href="https://twitter.com/CryptosR_Us/status/1899906105880232137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This apartment at Manhattan costs $150 million! It’s so pricy because Manhattan is being used as a store-of-value for rich people. Imagine when these people understand Bitcoin.<a href="https://t.co/uBEwE2olEj">pic.twitter.com/uBEwE2olEj</a></p>&mdash; Bitcoin for Freedom (@BTC_for_Freedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/BTC_for_Freedom/status/1903127129983734170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Could bitcoin grow by another 100x? Yes. <a href="https://t.co/0kBt0vkHJn">pic.twitter.com/0kBt0vkHJn</a></p>&mdash; Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1894453014661825010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin is going to demonetize real estate 10x faster than gold. <br><br>I think most people think Bitcoin will replace gold and then come after real estate. However, I think the opposite will happen. <br><br>I think real estate is in a far bigger bubble than gold. For 40 years everyone…</p>&mdash; FiatHawk (@FiatHawk) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiatHawk/status/1905776943318061077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your house is not worth more. <br><br>Your money is just worth less. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> fixes this. <a href="https://t.co/qkXKspoHU4">pic.twitter.com/qkXKspoHU4</a></p>&mdash; ⚡₿itcoinTeddy⚡ (@Bitcoin_Teddy) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bitcoin_Teddy/status/1910122819838501052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin &gt; Real Estate <a href="https://t.co/uB5aEcF6Or">pic.twitter.com/uB5aEcF6Or</a></p>&mdash; Glocke 🧡 (@Kluckies_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kluckies_/status/1910654281381724186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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Millionaires no longer need 6 pieces of prime real estate as places to keep his money (2-minute video)<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Listen to Michael Saylor explaining how <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> is demonetizing real estate 👀 <a href="https://t.co/EkMpfxR50J">pic.twitter.com/EkMpfxR50J</a></p>&mdash; Documenting Saylor (@saylordocs) <a href="https://twitter.com/saylordocs/status/1914318410101510163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Real Estate Investors Moving to Bitcoin ==<br />
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Real estate investors waking up to the fact that bitcoin is a far superior investment. (2-minute video)</br><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tad Smith says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> will demonetize art and real estate and how it will only accelerate 🚀 <a href="https://t.co/VflA09600O">pic.twitter.com/VflA09600O</a></p>&mdash; Bold Bitcoin (@BoldBitcoin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoldBitcoin/status/1900245648781316340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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It's better for society if financial speculation takes place in the pure financial asset of bitcoin rather than in real world assets like real estate or stocks that represent companies.<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin Adviser Peter Dunworth breaks down why Bitcoin will demonetize real estate. <a href="https://t.co/68309BUx5y">pic.twitter.com/68309BUx5y</a></p>&mdash; Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoinTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1909816508085059655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mark Moss explains why he sold all 200+ of his real estate properties to buy Bitcoin <a href="https://t.co/rsuBgFcw7u">pic.twitter.com/rsuBgFcw7u</a></p>&mdash; Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoin) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyBitcoin/status/2019619861761057202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Text from a friend of mine.<br><br>Bitcoin finally clicked and he is now liquidating his $25m Real Estate portfolio to go all in on.<br><br>Why hold decaying dry wall that has property taxes &amp; tenants when you can just hold Bitcoin?<br><br>This is happening everywhere.<br><br>Nobody is bullish enough. <a href="https://t.co/L3NFF5voS6">pic.twitter.com/L3NFF5voS6</a></p>&mdash; Mitchell ✝️🇺🇸 (@MitchellHODL) <a href="https://twitter.com/MitchellHODL/status/1912590414940426501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Government-caused Distortion of Real Estate Prices ==<br />
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60% of middle class household's net worth is in their home rather than an economy/wealth-building activity. (1-minute video)</br><br />
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== Superior Mortgages ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The entire financial system is going to be built around <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> <br><br>This is genius. <a href="https://t.co/vvbCb6MSpU">pic.twitter.com/vvbCb6MSpU</a></p>&mdash; Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoinTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1894888179087323509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A crypto mortgage lets you leverage your BTC or ETH to invest in real estate. Instead of selling your crypto, you can use it as collateral to qualify and secure a mortgage.<br><br>Apply in minutes and close your mortgage in weeks without losing the upside of your crypto asset.</p>&mdash; Milo (@milocredit) <a href="https://twitter.com/milocredit/status/1882893543628255259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When you get a Bitcoin Powered Mortgage for a $500K home<br><br>You post $500K of pristine collateral, that&#39;s a 1:1 ratio.<br><br>Because other products treat Bitcoin as a &quot;risk-on&quot; tech stock borrowed against on margin<br><br>Typically you have 50-70% LTV<br><br>So you&#39;d have to post $1M of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$BTC</a> just… <a href="https://t.co/Jayy95oeLv">https://t.co/Jayy95oeLv</a></p>&mdash; CJK (@CJKonstantinos) <a href="https://twitter.com/CJKonstantinos/status/1932613844335030419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This answer stood out to me and many listeners so I wanted to share it as a full clip. <br><br>Is part of the answer to greater Bitcoin adoption… DEBT?<br><br>Thank you Luke for joining me on the show. <a href="https://t.co/aFmFZpYOiW">https://t.co/aFmFZpYOiW</a> <a href="https://t.co/nqd38zY0TI">pic.twitter.com/nqd38zY0TI</a></p>&mdash; Natalie Brunell ⚡️ (@natbrunell) <a href="https://twitter.com/natbrunell/status/1961454136479637661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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== Real Estate Will Be Valued Solely for Its Utility ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like the money started to break around 1971.<br><br>Since then, the world began to monetize assets like real estate just to save for the future.<br><br>Thankfully bitcoin will extract the monetary premium out of real estate and make basic housing affordable again. <a href="https://t.co/qCnMXAVkDv">https://t.co/qCnMXAVkDv</a></p>&mdash; Joe Burnett, MSBA (@IIICapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1940778257017983402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your Home is Down 99% Over the Last 10 Years<br><br>w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBooth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffBooth</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Breedlove22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Breedlove22</a> <a href="https://t.co/lACvWd4vt7">pic.twitter.com/lACvWd4vt7</a></p>&mdash; The &quot;What is Money?&quot; Show (@WhatisMoneyShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow/status/1921964490637078830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🔥REAL ESTATE IS A DEATH SENTENCE. BITCOIN IS FREEDOM🔥<br><br>You signed a 30-year financial suicide pact with a bank that makes money off your delusions of equity.<br><br>You pay interest to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the life of your loan - just for the privilege of… <a href="https://t.co/4c8bjEWcki">pic.twitter.com/4c8bjEWcki</a></p>&mdash; Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBLiv/status/1924993722623652186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When people starts to sell their real estate for Bitcoin the whole real estate market will collapse like a house of cards. Some people will be able to sell, but the last ones out will not be able to do it.</p>&mdash; Bitcoin for Freedom (@BTC_for_Freedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/BTC_for_Freedom/status/1932082590359646502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Series: Rethinking Real Estate in a Bitcoin World ==<br />
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Real estate investing is being forced to re-calibrate now that Bitcoin has become the superior financial asset.</br><br />
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* [https://twitter.com/ChrisDrz/status/1958189746745950364 A Warning Call to Action for the Entire Real Estate Industry] (12-minute video)</br><br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1960721902865145980 Treasury Management for Real Estate Investors]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1963260153777856793 Real estate capital markets are broken]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1965793280777699346 The days of raising capital with 5–7% returns are over]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1968329124789023141 CRE Energy Efficiency in a Bitcoin Era]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1978479041016639978 This Is Not Just Another Real Estate Cycle]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1970869230351560986 The Role of PropTech in the Bitcoin Era]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1973416057500230118 Rising Tenant Improvement Costs]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1991178378519662783 Accepting Bitcoin Rent Payments]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1993349530918736359 Bitcoin-Integrated Businesses Will Reprice Commercial Real Estate]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1995542402497740917 Do NOT invest in real estate unless...]<br />
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<h3 style="text-align:center;color:#333;margin:0 0 4px;font-size:1.4rem;">Bitcoin Rise in Value</h3><br />
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<h3 style="text-align:center;color:#333;margin:0 0 4px;font-size:1.4rem;">Bitcoin Rise in Value</h3><br />
<div style="text-align:center;color:#666;font-size:0.9rem;margin-bottom:12px;"><br />
or the destruction of the value of US Dollar (on close of each month since December 26, 2013)<br />
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{ date: '2020-10-31', price: 13804.81 },<br />
{ date: '2020-11-30', price: 19713.94 },<br />
{ date: '2020-12-31', price: 28921.70 },<br />
{ date: '2021-01-31', price: 33137.74 },<br />
{ date: '2021-02-28', price: 45231.75 },<br />
{ date: '2021-03-31', price: 58800.00 },<br />
{ date: '2021-04-30', price: 57630.00 },<br />
{ date: '2021-05-31', price: 37279.31 },<br />
{ date: '2021-06-30', price: 35060.00 },<br />
{ date: '2021-07-31', price: 41488.50 },<br />
{ date: '2021-08-31', price: 47112.50 },<br />
{ date: '2021-09-30', price: 43824.43 },<br />
{ date: '2021-10-31', price: 61343.68 },<br />
{ date: '2021-11-30', price: 56987.97 },<br />
{ date: '2021-12-31', price: 46211.24 },<br />
{ date: '2022-01-31', price: 38491.93 },<br />
{ date: '2022-02-28', price: 43192.66 },<br />
{ date: '2022-03-31', price: 45528.45 },<br />
{ date: '2022-04-30', price: 37644.10 },<br />
{ date: '2022-05-31', price: 31784.05 },<br />
{ date: '2022-06-30', price: 19985.62 },<br />
{ date: '2022-07-31', price: 23307.44 },<br />
{ date: '2022-08-31', price: 20048.26 },<br />
{ date: '2022-09-30', price: 19425.20 },<br />
{ date: '2022-10-31', price: 20489.94 },<br />
{ date: '2022-11-30', price: 17167.33 },<br />
{ date: '2022-12-31', price: 16530.35 },<br />
{ date: '2023-01-31', price: 23128.86 },<br />
{ date: '2023-02-28', price: 23133.20 },<br />
{ date: '2023-03-31', price: 28474.40 },<br />
{ date: '2023-04-30', price: 29254.00 },<br />
{ date: '2023-05-31', price: 27223.08 },<br />
{ date: '2023-06-30', price: 30466.72 },<br />
{ date: '2023-07-31', price: 29230.67 },<br />
{ date: '2023-08-31', price: 25932.45 },<br />
{ date: '2023-09-30', price: 26961.00 },<br />
{ date: '2023-10-31', price: 34656.40 },<br />
{ date: '2023-11-30', price: 37732.27 },<br />
{ date: '2023-12-31', price: 42288.06 },<br />
{ date: '2024-01-31', price: 42548.08 },<br />
{ date: '2024-02-29', price: 61180.90 },<br />
{ date: '2024-03-31', price: 71288.90 },<br />
{ date: '2024-04-30', price: 60622.10 },<br />
{ date: '2024-05-31', price: 67472.41 },<br />
{ date: '2024-06-30', price: 62668.26 },<br />
{ date: '2024-07-31', price: 64609.62 },<br />
{ date: '2024-08-31', price: 58968.37 },<br />
{ date: '2024-09-30', price: 63301.25 },<br />
{ date: '2024-10-31', price: 70197.83 },<br />
{ date: '2024-11-30', price: 96465.42 },<br />
{ date: '2024-12-31', price: 93354.22 },<br />
{ date: '2025-01-31', price: 102411.26 },<br />
{ date: '2025-02-28', price: 84297.73 },<br />
{ date: '2025-03-31', price: 82534.32 },<br />
{ date: '2025-04-30', price: 94182.54 },<br />
{ date: '2025-05-31', price: 104645.87 },<br />
{ date: '2025-06-30', price: 107173.21 },<br />
{ date: '2025-07-31', price: 115761.13 },<br />
{ date: '2025-08-31', price: 108247.95 },<br />
{ date: '2025-09-30', price: 114067.71 },<br />
{ date: '2025-10-31', price: 109552.70 },<br />
{ date: '2025-11-30', price: 90369.51 },<br />
{ date: '2025-12-31', price: 87497.94 },<br />
{ date: '2026-01-31', price: 78648.00 },<br />
{ date: '2026-02-28', price: 66967.85 },<br />
{ date: '2026-03-31', price: 68221.85 },<br />
{ date: '2026-04-30', price: 76305.78 },<br />
{ date: '2026-05-31', price: 73570.00 },<br />
{ date: '2026-06-30', price: 58523.93 },<br />
{ date: '2026-07-31', price: 62825.90 },<br />
{ date: '2026-08-31', price: 78548.63 }<br />
// When August 2026 ends, add:<br />
// { date: '2026-08-31', price: XXXXX.XX },<br />
];<br />
<br />
const canvas = document.getElementById('btcChart');<br />
<br />
function draw() {<br />
try {<br />
if (typeof Chart === 'undefined') {<br />
throw new Error('Chart.js failed to load (check CDN or Content Security Policy)');<br />
}<br />
<br />
const labels = PERMANENT.map(p => new Date(p.date + 'T00:00:00Z'));<br />
const prices = PERMANENT.map(p => p.price);<br />
<br />
if (window._btcChart) window._btcChart.destroy();<br />
<br />
window._btcChart = new Chart(canvas, {<br />
type: 'line',<br />
data: {<br />
labels: labels,<br />
datasets: [{<br />
label: 'BTC/USD (month-end)',<br />
data: prices,<br />
borderColor: '#F7931A',<br />
backgroundColor: 'rgba(247, 147, 26, 0.08)',<br />
borderWidth: 1.8,<br />
pointRadius: 0,<br />
pointHoverRadius: 4,<br />
tension: 0.05,<br />
fill: true<br />
}]<br />
},<br />
options: {<br />
responsive: true,<br />
maintainAspectRatio: false,<br />
interaction: { mode: 'index', intersect: false },<br />
scales: {<br />
x: {<br />
type: 'time',<br />
time: { unit: 'year' },<br />
title: { display: false },<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
},<br />
y: {<br />
type: 'linear',<br />
title: { display: true, text: 'Price (USD)' },<br />
ticks: {<br />
callback: v => '$' + v.toLocaleString()<br />
},<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
}<br />
},<br />
plugins: {<br />
legend: { display: false },<br />
tooltip: {<br />
callbacks: {<br />
label: ctx => ' $' + ctx.parsed.y.toLocaleString(undefined, { maximumFractionDigits: 2 })<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
});<br />
} catch (err) {<br />
console.error(err);<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
if (document.readyState === 'loading') {<br />
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => setTimeout(draw, 50));<br />
} else {<br />
setTimeout(draw, 50);<br />
}<br />
})();<br />
</script><br />
</html></div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Template:BitcoinChart&diff=83595Template:BitcoinChart2026-09-04T04:41:17Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
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<div><html><br />
<div id="btc-chart-wrapper" style="max-width:1100px;margin:20px auto;background:#fff;padding:20px;border-radius:12px;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;"><br />
<h3 style="text-align:center;color:#333;margin:0 0 4px;font-size:1.4rem;">Bitcoin Rise in Value</h3><br />
<div style="text-align:center;color:#666;font-size:0.9rem;margin-bottom:12px;"><br />
or the destruction of the value of US Dollar (since December 26, 2013)<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<!-- Fixed 200 px tall chart area --><br />
<div style="position:relative;height:200px;width:100%;"><br />
<canvas id="btcChart"></canvas><br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartjs-adapter-date-fns@3.0.0/dist/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js"></script><br />
<script><br />
(function () {<br />
// ============================================================<br />
// PERMANENT DATA – the only source for the chart.<br />
// Starts 26 Dec 2013, then month-end closes.<br />
// When a month ends, simply add one new line here with that<br />
// month’s final close price.<br />
// ============================================================<br />
const PERMANENT = [<br />
{ date: '2013-12-26', price: 752.34 },<br />
{ date: '2013-12-31', price: 739.73 },<br />
{ date: '2014-01-31', price: 812.19 },<br />
{ date: '2014-02-28', price: 573.94 },<br />
{ date: '2014-03-31', price: 462.39 },<br />
{ date: '2014-04-30', price: 448.34 },<br />
{ date: '2014-05-31', price: 629.04 },<br />
{ date: '2014-06-30', price: 637.00 },<br />
{ date: '2014-07-31', price: 590.17 },<br />
{ date: '2014-08-31', price: 509.98 },<br />
{ date: '2014-09-30', price: 380.02 },<br />
{ date: '2014-10-31', price: 347.95 },<br />
{ date: '2014-11-30', price: 386.32 },<br />
{ date: '2014-12-31', price: 319.14 },<br />
{ date: '2015-01-31', price: 216.69 },<br />
{ date: '2015-02-28', price: 250.11 },<br />
{ date: '2015-03-31', price: 244.42 },<br />
{ date: '2015-04-30', price: 237.31 },<br />
{ date: '2015-05-31', price: 227.59 },<br />
{ date: '2015-06-30', price: 263.18 },<br />
{ date: '2015-07-31', price: 293.48 },<br />
{ date: '2015-08-31', price: 230.92 },<br />
{ date: '2015-09-30', price: 236.00 },<br />
{ date: '2015-10-31', price: 306.13 },<br />
{ date: '2015-11-30', price: 378.50 },<br />
{ date: '2015-12-31', price: 431.31 },<br />
{ date: '2016-01-31', price: 369.19 },<br />
{ date: '2016-02-29', price: 438.24 },<br />
{ date: '2016-03-31', price: 416.10 },<br />
{ date: '2016-04-30', price: 448.91 },<br />
{ date: '2016-05-31', price: 531.19 },<br />
{ date: '2016-06-30', price: 671.52 },<br />
{ date: '2016-07-31', price: 622.57 },<br />
{ date: '2016-08-31', price: 574.22 },<br />
{ date: '2016-09-30', price: 612.50 },<br />
{ date: '2016-10-31', price: 698.92 },<br />
{ date: '2016-11-30', price: 742.40 },<br />
{ date: '2016-12-31', price: 967.45 },<br />
{ date: '2017-01-31', price: 963.99 },<br />
{ date: '2017-02-28', price: 1189.10 },<br />
{ date: '2017-03-31', price: 1088.99 },<br />
{ date: '2017-04-30', price: 1435.00 },<br />
{ date: '2017-05-31', price: 2291.30 },<br />
{ date: '2017-06-30', price: 2455.19 },<br />
{ date: '2017-07-31', price: 2876.13 },<br />
{ date: '2017-08-31', price: 4734.26 },<br />
{ date: '2017-09-30', price: 4371.55 },<br />
{ date: '2017-10-31', price: 6434.21 },<br />
{ date: '2017-11-30', price: 9907.10 },<br />
{ date: '2017-12-31', price: 13990.00 },<br />
{ date: '2018-01-31', price: 10149.00 },<br />
{ date: '2018-02-28', price: 10310.00 },<br />
{ date: '2018-03-31', price: 6925.40 },<br />
{ date: '2018-04-30', price: 9243.83 },<br />
{ date: '2018-05-31', price: 7485.60 },<br />
{ date: '2018-06-30', price: 6383.19 },<br />
{ date: '2018-07-31', price: 7731.20 },<br />
{ date: '2018-08-31', price: 7015.01 },<br />
{ date: '2018-09-30', price: 6605.00 },<br />
{ date: '2018-10-31', price: 6304.18 },<br />
{ date: '2018-11-30', price: 3976.00 },<br />
{ date: '2018-12-31', price: 3691.86 },<br />
{ date: '2019-01-31', price: 3438.15 },<br />
{ date: '2019-02-28', price: 3792.14 },<br />
{ date: '2019-03-31', price: 4103.47 },<br />
{ date: '2019-04-30', price: 5270.69 },<br />
{ date: '2019-05-31', price: 8553.53 },<br />
{ date: '2019-06-30', price: 10809.00 },<br />
{ date: '2019-07-31', price: 10081.46 },<br />
{ date: '2019-08-31', price: 9600.86 },<br />
{ date: '2019-09-30', price: 8310.00 },<br />
{ date: '2019-10-31', price: 9146.18 },<br />
{ date: '2019-11-30', price: 7544.68 },<br />
{ date: '2019-12-31', price: 7168.36 },<br />
{ date: '2020-01-31', price: 9334.98 },<br />
{ date: '2020-02-29', price: 8561.50 },<br />
{ date: '2020-03-31', price: 6424.35 },<br />
{ date: '2020-04-30', price: 8631.82 },<br />
{ date: '2020-05-31', price: 9451.10 },<br />
{ date: '2020-06-30', price: 9150.70 },<br />
{ date: '2020-07-31', price: 11351.62 },<br />
{ date: '2020-08-31', price: 11655.00 },<br />
{ date: '2020-09-30', price: 10779.63 },<br />
{ date: '2020-10-31', price: 13804.81 },<br />
{ date: '2020-11-30', price: 19713.94 },<br />
{ date: '2020-12-31', price: 28921.70 },<br />
{ date: '2021-01-31', price: 33137.74 },<br />
{ date: '2021-02-28', price: 45231.75 },<br />
{ date: '2021-03-31', price: 58800.00 },<br />
{ date: '2021-04-30', price: 57630.00 },<br />
{ date: '2021-05-31', price: 37279.31 },<br />
{ date: '2021-06-30', price: 35060.00 },<br />
{ date: '2021-07-31', price: 41488.50 },<br />
{ date: '2021-08-31', price: 47112.50 },<br />
{ date: '2021-09-30', price: 43824.43 },<br />
{ date: '2021-10-31', price: 61343.68 },<br />
{ date: '2021-11-30', price: 56987.97 },<br />
{ date: '2021-12-31', price: 46211.24 },<br />
{ date: '2022-01-31', price: 38491.93 },<br />
{ date: '2022-02-28', price: 43192.66 },<br />
{ date: '2022-03-31', price: 45528.45 },<br />
{ date: '2022-04-30', price: 37644.10 },<br />
{ date: '2022-05-31', price: 31784.05 },<br />
{ date: '2022-06-30', price: 19985.62 },<br />
{ date: '2022-07-31', price: 23307.44 },<br />
{ date: '2022-08-31', price: 20048.26 },<br />
{ date: '2022-09-30', price: 19425.20 },<br />
{ date: '2022-10-31', price: 20489.94 },<br />
{ date: '2022-11-30', price: 17167.33 },<br />
{ date: '2022-12-31', price: 16530.35 },<br />
{ date: '2023-01-31', price: 23128.86 },<br />
{ date: '2023-02-28', price: 23133.20 },<br />
{ date: '2023-03-31', price: 28474.40 },<br />
{ date: '2023-04-30', price: 29254.00 },<br />
{ date: '2023-05-31', price: 27223.08 },<br />
{ date: '2023-06-30', price: 30466.72 },<br />
{ date: '2023-07-31', price: 29230.67 },<br />
{ date: '2023-08-31', price: 25932.45 },<br />
{ date: '2023-09-30', price: 26961.00 },<br />
{ date: '2023-10-31', price: 34656.40 },<br />
{ date: '2023-11-30', price: 37732.27 },<br />
{ date: '2023-12-31', price: 42288.06 },<br />
{ date: '2024-01-31', price: 42548.08 },<br />
{ date: '2024-02-29', price: 61180.90 },<br />
{ date: '2024-03-31', price: 71288.90 },<br />
{ date: '2024-04-30', price: 60622.10 },<br />
{ date: '2024-05-31', price: 67472.41 },<br />
{ date: '2024-06-30', price: 62668.26 },<br />
{ date: '2024-07-31', price: 64609.62 },<br />
{ date: '2024-08-31', price: 58968.37 },<br />
{ date: '2024-09-30', price: 63301.25 },<br />
{ date: '2024-10-31', price: 70197.83 },<br />
{ date: '2024-11-30', price: 96465.42 },<br />
{ date: '2024-12-31', price: 93354.22 },<br />
{ date: '2025-01-31', price: 102411.26 },<br />
{ date: '2025-02-28', price: 84297.73 },<br />
{ date: '2025-03-31', price: 82534.32 },<br />
{ date: '2025-04-30', price: 94182.54 },<br />
{ date: '2025-05-31', price: 104645.87 },<br />
{ date: '2025-06-30', price: 107173.21 },<br />
{ date: '2025-07-31', price: 115761.13 },<br />
{ date: '2025-08-31', price: 108247.95 },<br />
{ date: '2025-09-30', price: 114067.71 },<br />
{ date: '2025-10-31', price: 109552.70 },<br />
{ date: '2025-11-30', price: 90369.51 },<br />
{ date: '2025-12-31', price: 87497.94 },<br />
{ date: '2026-01-31', price: 78648.00 },<br />
{ date: '2026-02-28', price: 66967.85 },<br />
{ date: '2026-03-31', price: 68221.85 },<br />
{ date: '2026-04-30', price: 76305.78 },<br />
{ date: '2026-05-31', price: 73570.00 },<br />
{ date: '2026-06-30', price: 58523.93 },<br />
{ date: '2026-07-31', price: 62825.90 },<br />
{ date: '2026-08-31', price: 78548.63 }<br />
// When August 2026 ends, add:<br />
// { date: '2026-08-31', price: XXXXX.XX },<br />
];<br />
<br />
const canvas = document.getElementById('btcChart');<br />
<br />
function draw() {<br />
try {<br />
if (typeof Chart === 'undefined') {<br />
throw new Error('Chart.js failed to load (check CDN or Content Security Policy)');<br />
}<br />
<br />
const labels = PERMANENT.map(p => new Date(p.date + 'T00:00:00Z'));<br />
const prices = PERMANENT.map(p => p.price);<br />
<br />
if (window._btcChart) window._btcChart.destroy();<br />
<br />
window._btcChart = new Chart(canvas, {<br />
type: 'line',<br />
data: {<br />
labels: labels,<br />
datasets: [{<br />
label: 'BTC/USD (month-end)',<br />
data: prices,<br />
borderColor: '#F7931A',<br />
backgroundColor: 'rgba(247, 147, 26, 0.08)',<br />
borderWidth: 1.8,<br />
pointRadius: 0,<br />
pointHoverRadius: 4,<br />
tension: 0.05,<br />
fill: true<br />
}]<br />
},<br />
options: {<br />
responsive: true,<br />
maintainAspectRatio: false,<br />
interaction: { mode: 'index', intersect: false },<br />
scales: {<br />
x: {<br />
type: 'time',<br />
time: { unit: 'year' },<br />
title: { display: false },<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
},<br />
y: {<br />
type: 'linear',<br />
title: { display: true, text: 'Price (USD)' },<br />
ticks: {<br />
callback: v => '$' + v.toLocaleString()<br />
},<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
}<br />
},<br />
plugins: {<br />
legend: { display: false },<br />
tooltip: {<br />
callbacks: {<br />
label: ctx => ' $' + ctx.parsed.y.toLocaleString(undefined, { maximumFractionDigits: 2 })<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
});<br />
} catch (err) {<br />
console.error(err);<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
if (document.readyState === 'loading') {<br />
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => setTimeout(draw, 50));<br />
} else {<br />
setTimeout(draw, 50);<br />
}<br />
})();<br />
</script><br />
</html></div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Template:BitcoinChart&diff=83594Template:BitcoinChart2026-09-04T04:36:49Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
<hr />
<div><html><br />
<div id="btc-chart-wrapper" style="max-width:1100px;margin:20px auto;background:#fff;padding:20px;border-radius:12px;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;"><br />
<h2 style="text-align:center;color:#333;margin:0 0 4px;font-size:1.4rem;">Bitcoin Rise in Value</h2><br />
<div style="text-align:center;color:#666;font-size:0.9rem;margin-bottom:12px;"><br />
(or the destruction of the value of US Dollar)<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<!-- Fixed 200 px tall chart area --><br />
<div style="position:relative;height:200px;width:100%;"><br />
<canvas id="btcChart"></canvas><br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartjs-adapter-date-fns@3.0.0/dist/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js"></script><br />
<script><br />
(function () {<br />
// ============================================================<br />
// PERMANENT DATA – the only source for the chart.<br />
// Starts 26 Dec 2013, then month-end closes.<br />
// When a month ends, simply add one new line here with that<br />
// month’s final close price.<br />
// ============================================================<br />
const PERMANENT = [<br />
{ date: '2013-12-26', price: 752.34 },<br />
{ date: '2013-12-31', price: 739.73 },<br />
{ date: '2014-01-31', price: 812.19 },<br />
{ date: '2014-02-28', price: 573.94 },<br />
{ date: '2014-03-31', price: 462.39 },<br />
{ date: '2014-04-30', price: 448.34 },<br />
{ date: '2014-05-31', price: 629.04 },<br />
{ date: '2014-06-30', price: 637.00 },<br />
{ date: '2014-07-31', price: 590.17 },<br />
{ date: '2014-08-31', price: 509.98 },<br />
{ date: '2014-09-30', price: 380.02 },<br />
{ date: '2014-10-31', price: 347.95 },<br />
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</html></div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Real_money&diff=83527Template:Real money2026-08-24T21:55:30Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Banker Wars */</p>
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<div>[[Image:moneynot.JPG|link=http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/RealMoney|300px|Center|thumb|'''Stuff Posing As Money''' - '''[http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/RealMoney <Br>Not Real Money]''' but used as if it was money. Real money must have "real" value not merely an imagined value or hoped value alone. <Br>: '''“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”''' - John Adams, 1820. Understanding the [[Federal Reserve]] and [[Woodrow Wilson]] may have value in understanding the effect of using '''notes for money''' including a ''three party note'' system based on debt.<Br>"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognised as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."<Ref><br />
William Lyon Mackenzie King <Br><br />
http://chatna.com/author/kingmackenzie.htm<Br><br />
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/primeministers/h4-3250-e.html<Br><br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King</Ref><Br>Is this "[[filthy lucre]] of graft and corruption and the "dirty money" that appeared in [[Egypt]] when [[Israel]] went into [[Bondage of Egypt|bondage]] in [[Genesis 47]].]]<br />
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== Real money ==<br />
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: '''“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”''' - John Adams, 1820.<br />
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'''Federal Reserve Notes''' are notes. <br />
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That seems obvious and would go without saying accept that for centuries [[Federal_Reserve#Cashless_Society|"notes" were not considered to be cash]]. If that meaning of the word was true we would virtually live in a ''cashless society'' and have for almost a half a century. Yes there was some coin in circulation but they presented a minor present in what circulated as "money" and ''coins of substance'' was disappearing from use since the 1960's.<br />
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'''The changing of the meaning of words''' may change ideas and ideologies, and in turn change the way we think. But there are ''[[Natural Law|fundamental laws of Nature]]'' in existence in this '''''cause and effect universe''''' where we live that do not change and are not subject to our opinion. By [[That word|changing the meaning of words the mind of mankind can be altered]] and his lack of knowledge of the truth may make him vulnerable and subject. This is why the willingness to [[repent]] is so important. Repenting is the "changing of the mind" which often requires an almost spiritual humility which we have lacked since first eating of the "[[Tree of knowledge]]".<br />
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=== Lacking value ===<br />
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Notes may be tendered as a legal or binding offer to discharge a debt but they lack the power of present value required in the natural law to produce a true and actual transactions where the value of things is exchanged.<br />
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The most ''insidious''<Ref>treacherous; crafty. "tangible proof of an insidious alliance factor"</Ref> is the presence of the ''third party'' which includes the issuer of the note. <br />
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Three party notes create a surety and cannot pay a debt but only discharge debt.<Ref name="stanek">“There is a distinction between a 'debt discharged' and a debt 'paid'. When discharged the debt still exists, though divested of its character as a legal obligation during the operation of the discharge. Something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist which may be transferred, even though the transferee takes it subject to its disability incident to the discharge. <br />
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The fact that it carries something which may be consideration for a new promise to pay, so as to make an otherwise worthless promise a legal obligation, makes it the subject of transfer by assignment.” Stanek v. White. 172. Minn. 390, 215 N. W.784. See http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog11movma.php<br />
</Ref> <br />
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While they were originally "Redeemable in lawful money" they were only at best "Legal tender for all debts both public and private". <br />
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This means at best they can only be used to discharge debt while ''something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist''.<Ref name="stanek"></Ref> <br />
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Again 2hile those notes were redeemable in "lawful money" for US citizens until 1933 and for international sovereigns until more recently, todayy they have become virtually [[fiat]] except as evidence of debt.<br />
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<blockquote><br />
''“There is a distinction between a debt discharged and one paid. When discharged the debt still exists,<Ref name="summary">"Everything that is purchased with a note has not actually been paid for with present value. A person merely offers (tenders) the note (bill) for legal payment in order to discharge a portion of the debt. The one who has promised, under seal, to pay the debt holds in trust the equitable title, while the person tendering his note obtains a mere [[legal title]]. This process is called “equitable conversion” and arises out of a construction of law. In order to obtain a true and actual title and equitably reconvert the property, one must pay present value to the one holding the equitable title." "[[Covenants of the gods]]"</Ref> though divested of its character as a legal obligation during the operation of the discharge. Something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist…” <Ref name="stanek"></Ref>''<br />
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It goes on to say, “…which may be transferred, even though the transferee takes it subject to its disability incident to the discharge. The fact that it carries something which may be a consideration for a new promise to pay, so as to make an otherwise worthless promise a legal obligation, makes it the subject of transfer by assignment.”<Ref name="stanek"></Ref><br />
</blockquote><br />
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=== Real purpose ===<br />
<br />
The changes wrought in the dominion of humanity by the introduction of [[Federal Reserve]] systems all over the [[world]] are not really about making money but are about the centralization of power.<br />
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There is a technical strategy in operation on many levels that are designed ultimately to subject mankind and deprive him of his natural right as heirs to the endowed dominion.<br />
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Understanding the limitations of [[Common Law]] in practice and the alterations or shifting of responsibility by [[civil law]] and [[equity]] within [[Natural Law]] suggest the utility of a division of a [[legal title]] and [[equitable title]] in the implementation of those schemes to shift both power and control over property. <br />
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=== Maxims and Meanings ===<br />
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There are meanings and three [[maxims]] of law that should be fundamentally examined and comprehensively understood:<br />
: “[[Civil Law]], [[Roman Law]], and Roman Civil Law are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence.” Black’s 3rd p 332.<br />
: “The [[civil law]] reduces the unwilling freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of the Angloes judge once [[manumissio|manumitted]] as ever after free.”<Ref>Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinalm servitutem redigulnt; sed leges angiae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant. Co. Litt. 137.</Ref> <br />
: "He who receives the benefit should also bear the disadvantage."<Ref>Cujus est commodum ejus debet esse incommodum.</Ref> "He who has the risk has the dominion or advantage."<Ref>Ejus est periculum cujus est dominium aut commodum.</Ref> "He who may consent tacitly, may consent expressly."<Ref>Ejus est non nolle, qui potest velle. Dig. 50, 17, 8.</Ref><br />
: And finally, [[Mammon]] as seen in [[Luke 16]] is derived from Ma’amon, "something entrusted to safe keeping. In any case, there was apparently a threefold play on this meaning in Lk. xvi.<Ref>[[Luke 16]]:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.<br />
: [[Luke 16]]:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?<br />
: [[Luke 16]]:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and [[mammon]].<br />
* * [[Matthew 6]]:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</Ref> ... representing forms of the Semitic root word ''‘men''.”<Ref> Encyclopedia Britannica. </Ref><br />
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=== Most Gigantic Trust ===<br />
<br />
The final meaning is important because:<br />
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: “This Act (meaning the [[Federal Reserve]] Act) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this Act the invisible government by the Money Power, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation[1], will be legalized. The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.” <Ref>Charles A. Lindberg, Sr., at the time of the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. Lindbergh is best known as the father of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.</Ref><br />
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Charles August Lindbergh<Ref>Charles August Lindbergh name at birth was Carl Månsson, born January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924 of brain cancer.</Ref> was a United States Congressman from Minnesota from 1907 to 1917 which allowed him to become a major opponent to the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, which he warned would hand control of the fiscal elements of the United States to "a purely profiteering group" which he believed entertained "the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money."<br />
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But their goal was not to make profit but to seize power, control, and reduce the [[masses]] to [[human resources]].<br />
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The long rang effect and consequences of these legal factors and conditions in conjunction with social practices within society can alter the status and course of humanity itself, [[degenerate|degenerating]] the very soul of society.<br />
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The [[elements]] of [[freedom]] that nurtured [[liberty]] through the [[social bonds]] and [[Freewill offering|willing sacrifice]] would be lost if not forgotten. <br />
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When [[darkness|eyes saw not]] with [[care]] and compassion and ears heard not the cries and weeping of the needs of neighbor the slothful was [[entangled]] and [[snare|snared]] in the [[elements]] of the [[world]].<br />
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=== Real elements ===<br />
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Wealth is like unto the [[blood]] of society. Debt is the antithesis of wealth and debt notes are nit value or wealth nor life. Coveting your neighbors goods is coveting the blood of your neighbor. Having a Common purse rather than personal wealth severs a critical element of a free society. The [[welfare state]] supported by [[legal charity]] [[Polybius|degenerates]] the character and morals that [[social bonds|strength of society]].<br />
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As [[Social virtues]] are undermined in society, society rots from within, and becomes vulnerable to the contamination of the minds and souls if the whole body of society.<br />
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[[Society]] is a group of "persons" and those ''persons'' are members of families. The families can unite together "for some common purpose" "by mutual consent" through [[contract]]s, [[oaths]] ''allegiance'' or ''social bonds'' of [[love]] and [[charity]] through [[faith]]. That "common purpose may be due to self love or love [[Golden rule|for others as for self]].<br />
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The real treasure of society is the heart and soul of its righteous participants. [[The bands]] which connect the [[flesh and blood]] are righteous through the [[perfect law of liberty]] or unrighteous through a desire to control. The family is core of a stable and strong society. <br />
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Families are bound together in society by [[fellowship]] and [[faith]] or [[force]] and [[fear]]. If the family falters society fails.<br />
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=== Real revolting revolution===<br />
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There has been a series of elements that have woven the fabric of society which have been altered in society over the centuries either by sloth or design. Anything that <br />
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With the end of the civil war and mass migration during the industrial revolution. The Victorian morality lost its universal appeal opening a way to [[David Crockett|displacing of some moral standards]] setting the possibility of a rise of a "permissive society".<br />
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“The Second Sexual Revolution” marked a social upheavals in the wake of the First World War. With each subsequent war, the [[New Deal]],he [[War on Poverty]], and the [[Cloward-Piven Strategy]] there was a continuous dissipation of [[social bonds]] as the [[masses]] developed an amoral [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] through [[covet]]ing their neighbor's property.<br />
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=== Real and Present value ===<br />
<br />
[[Image:Scalesjust.jpg|200px|link=law|right|thumb|A [[legal title]] is a ''title of appearance'' which does not include “ownership of an estate” since it carries “no beneficial interest". That loss of a right upon the land itself is not so much the result of an ''evil conspiracy'' as much as it is a [[foolish]] neglect of what '''Christ [[commanded]]'''.<Br> “The study of [[money]], above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create [[money]] is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.” • John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ), former professor of economics at Harvard, writing in ‘Money: Whence it<br />
came, where it went’ (1975). ]]<br />
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A Dollar was a ''just weight''<Ref name="Just">But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ([Deuteronomy 25]:15)<br />
: A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. ([Proverbs 11]:1)<br />
: A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work. ([Proverbs 16]:11)</Ref> of a coin (412.5 grains in weight) often of 90% pure silver but could include other precious metals of ''substance'' with ''present value''.<br />
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The term DOLLAR was “The monetary unit or standard of value of the United States and Canada. By the term Dollar in the United States is intended the coined dollar of the United States, a certain quantity in weight and fineness of gold or silver…” The Century Dictionary, Published 1914.<br />
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The antitheses of a ''just weight, a perfect and just measure''<Ref name="Just"></Ref> had to do with honesty and integrity<Ref>[[Proverbs 11]]:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. 5 The [[righteousness]] of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. </Ref> and to do otherwise was trading with the enemy.<br />
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A United States Silver Certificates stated: “This certifies that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America (denomination) Dollar(s) in silver payable to the bearer on demand.” <br />
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When United States Notes were still being issued they use to say “The United States of America will pay to the bearer on demand (denomination) Dollar(s).”<br />
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Of course a NOTE was not a DOLLAR. A note is at best a promise to pay, at worst an instrument of debt and bondage.. <br />
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Someone said "[[Money can be anything]], even paper." He actually thinks that "Stocks represent the real wealth, production based on consumption by people. They are the new gold."<br />
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Nothing can be farther from the truth. Stocks are seldom valued based on assets or actual productivity. They are all valued in dollars which further clouds the issue.<br />
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The term ''dollar'' was originally used as a measure of weight.<Ref>from early Flemish or Low German daler, from German T(h)aler, short for Joachimsthaler, a coin from the silver mine of Joachimsthal (‘Joachim's valley’). Czech ''tolar'', Hungarian tallér, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian ''daler'', Icelandic ''dalur'', Ethiopian ''talari'', Italian ''tallero'', Polish ''talar''. The term was later applied to a coin used in the Spanish American colonies, which was also widely used in the British North American colonies at the time of the American Revolution. The Continental Congress in 1786 adopted dollar as a unit when it set up the modern U.S. currency system, which was based on the suggestion of Gouverneur Morris (1782) as modified by Thomas Jefferson. None were circulated until 1794.</Ref><br />
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We were warned to have "just weights" and measures lest we return to the "[[Bondage of Egypt]]"<Ref>[[Leviticus 19]]:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.<br />
: [[Proverbs 16]]:11 A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.</Ref> where we had given up the lawful ownership to our property. That [[bondage]] allowed the government of Pharaoh to impose a use tax on the property we only held a "[[legal title]]" to and eventually even upon [[Employ|our own labor]].<br />
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: '''"They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity."''' [[Ezekiel 7]]:19<Ref>[[Ezekiel 44]]:12 Because they ministered unto them before their [[idols]], and caused the house of [[Israel]] to fall into [[iniquity]]; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their [[iniquity]].<br />
[[Romans 11]]:9 And David saith, Let their [[table]] be made a [[snare]], and a trap, and a [[stumblingblock]], and a recompence unto them:</Ref><br />
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== Cashless Society ==<br />
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{{#ev:youtube|hYzX3YZoMrs|300|right|Why the whole banking system is a scam - Godfrey Bloom MEP...It has been a shift in our thinking that has allowed things like "fractional reserve banking", "quantitative easing", central banks and "deposit guarantees". https://youtu.be/hYzX3YZoMrs _Time 2:18}}<br />
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The term ''cash'' a century ago did not include notes created by a bank. <br />
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Store keepers who posted a note saying ''"cash only"'' would not accept banknotes of any kind but only coin as payment.<Ref name="stanek"></Ref> Cash originally meant an actual coin with a weight of some precious or semi precious metal. <br />
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In the late 16th century the term ''cash'' actually denoted a box for coins. It was derived from the Old French ''casse'' and Middle French ''caisse'' "money box" or Italian ''cassa'' meaning ‘box’, or even from the Latin term ''capsa'' which was often used to refer to boxes smaller than a shoe-box. By the 1590s the term came to mean a "money box" where coins were kept but also "[[money]] in hand, coin".<br />
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Although the term ''cash'' likely had another source which also promoted its use and added to its evolution in society it too was from a word meaning ''coins''. <br />
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The term ''cash'' was also derived from Tamil (காசு) which was the official language of both Singapore and Sri Lanka and brought to Great Britain and the world by the East India Company. The word ''kāsu'' meant a ''coin''. <br />
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While promises to pay in the form of notes of paper or clay tablets have been around since [[Babylon]] the payment was always made with something of present value. <br />
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Venetian merchants started using paper bills, instructing their banker to make payments in amounts of silver or gold. For centuries the term ''cash'' as a verb meant to convert a paper bill, note, cheque or check into coin or bullion by weight. <br />
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To make a coin could also include a stamped value implied or imposed by a government rather than a mere weight or measure. This is what ''coining money'' eventually came to mean. The stamped value was not always just based on actual content of a coin. <br />
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Blaming what is commonly used for [[money]] for the problems produced by people choosing to not use [[Real Money]] which is simply "just weights and measures" as advised by God is foolish. <Ref>[[Leviticus 19]]:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of [[Egypt]].<br />
: [[Proverbs 16]]:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.</Ref>. <br />
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The Roman silver ''denarii'' eventually became an iron coin stamped with an imposed value which led to runaway inflation because when the silver was gone the real value was gone. A "just weights and measures" economy only uses what could be called a ''[[commodity money]].<br />
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[[File:juno.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Temples|The Temple]] of '''Juno Moneta''' is considered to be [[Temples|another "pagan temple"]] but it was simply a place where ''coins'' used as ''[[money]]'' were minted by the government.]]<br />
The [[Temples|Temple]] of '''Juno Moneta''' (Latin: Templum Iunonis Monetæ) was an ancient Roman temple that stood on the Arx or the citadel on the Capitoline Hill overlooking the Roman government Forum. The word [[Money]] is from a Middle English word from Old French ''moneie'', from Latin ''moneta'' ‘mint, [[money]]’. It was an original title of the goddess '''Juno''', in whose [[Temples|temple]] the money of [[Rome]] was minted. These coins had some value at first and the minting was merely stamping what would become their "legal tender" value.<br />
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Today, money is defined as "a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively."<br />
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Notes and iron or base metal coins may have no real value and certainly not the value stamped or printed on them and therefore are not ''real money'' but ''stuff posing as money''. <br />
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Gold and silver being used as a monetary unit is from at least the Ancient Sumerians, who used the silver shekel as a unit of weight for the transactions of merchants. The ''stator'' was one of the earliest forms of coined money was created around 600 BC by the Lydian Empire from a gold-silver alloy called ''electrum''.<br />
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=== Reduction of value ===<br />
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The removal of gold from the US citizen in 1933<Ref name="goldx"> ''Emergency Banking Act'', March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt and the April 5, 1933, [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-6102-forbidding-the-hoarding-gold-coin-gold-bullion-and-gold-certificates Executive Order 6102]. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress session June 5, 1933 produced the ''Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause'' for U.S. [[Citizen|Citizens]]. The Gold Reserve Act of January 30, 1934 compelled all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered to the United States Department of the Treasury and prohibited the redeeming dollar bills for gold establishing the Exchange Stabilization Fund and empowering the president ''to establish the gold value by proclamation''. </Ref> had made it a criminal offense at least for a [[citizen]] by virtue of the 14th Amendment, to own or trade gold anywhere in the world, ''with exceptions for some jewelry and collector's coins''. It also empowered the president to dictate the value of coins and notes in the world by edict (Compelling a legal price change from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35.) giving rise to monetary inflation.<br />
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It was well known and understood that this Executive Order and others<Ref>"Executive Order No. 6260 of August 28, 1933, as amended by Executive Order No. 6359 of October 25, 1933, Executive Order No. 6556 of January 12, 1934, Executive Order No. 6560 of January 15, 1934, ...and the fifth and sixth paragraphs of Executive Order No. 6073, March 10, 1933; sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order No. 6359 of October 25, 1933;" revoked by [https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11825.html Executive Order 11825].</Ref> would lead to an inflation of both the supply of credit and currency, creating an artificial economic boom setting in motion in economic process that would produce a series of inevitably busts and depressions where some will get richer but the average citizen would get poorer.<br />
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Some of these days could be the "date which will live in infamy" if the people would also admit their own departure from [[Right Reason]] and the biblical call for ''just weights and measures''.<br />
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Not only gold but silver would be removed from U.S. coinage primarily by the ''Coinage Act of 1965''. This act eliminated silver from circulating coins and reduced the silver content in some from 90 percent to 40 percent. Eventually, silver was entirely removed from the half dollar by a 1970 law. But there was a plan devised to reduce the power of the individual and their rights and increase the power and scope of governments of the world.<Ref name="silverx">On December 31, 1974 the [https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11825.html Executive Order 11825], President Gerald Ford supposedly ''revoked'' Executive Orders of Roosevelt ("Executive Order No. 6260 of August 28, 1933, as amended by Executive Order No. 6359 of October 25, 1933, Executive Order No. 6556 of January 12, 1934, Executive Order No. 6560 of January 15, 1934, ...and the fifth and sixth paragraphs of Executive Order No. 6073, March 10, 1933; sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order No. 6359 of October 25, 1933;" ) but [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-6102-forbidding-the-hoarding-gold-coin-gold-bullion-and-gold-certificates Executive Order 6102] used to call in gold in 1933 is not mentioned. But Section 2 goes on to state, "all such liabilities, penalties, and forfeitures under the Executive orders shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if the revocation had not been made." President Ford signed a bill allowing [[legal title]] to the ownership of gold coins, bars and certificates by an act of Congress codified in [https://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/93/373.pdf Public Law 93-373] effective December 31, 1974 but did not repeal the Gold Repeal Joint Resolution. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of October 28, 1977, signed by President Carter [https://www.congress.gov/95/statute/STATUTE-91/STATUTE-91-Pg1227.pdf Public Law No. 95-147], § 4(c), 91 Stat. 1227, 1229 (originally codified at 31 U.S.C. § 463 note, recodified as amended at 31 U.S.C. § 5118(d)(2)) amended the 1933 Joint Resolution allowed the inclusion of the so-called gold clauses in contracts formed after 1977. By December 17, 1985 – President Reagan signed the ''Gold Bullion Coin Act'' which allowed the US Mint to produce gold coins (American Eagles) from “newly mined domestic sources”. </Ref><br />
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[[Federal Reserve]] notes are not real money.... Those are debt notes. There is interest being charged on each one in circulation. They also have ''"no value"'' according to the Federal Reserve website. They are the ultimate SPAM. ''Stuff Posing As Money''.<br />
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They are not really money but are ''legal tender'', not redeemable in lawful money, and therefore the people cannot obtain a lawful title with them. This system of money only allows for the ownership of a [[legal title]] to all property reducing the individual to little more than a serf upon his own land. This is part of an ancient plan to reduce men to little more than [[human resources]].<br />
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The term ''legal tender'' is a euphemism of modern thinking that allows something to become used as if it was value but is in fact nothing more than a substitute for value. It has been a shift in our thinking that has allowed things like "fractional reserve banking", "quantitative easing", central banks and "deposit guarantees". <br />
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The problems in the [[World|world]] today run so deep that the truth can hardly be considered much less understood. The solution is the same as it was 2000 years ago but to see it we would have to see out own problems. Rome faced this same problem and eventually collapsed but the early Christians had begun to do something fundamentally different and not only survived but thrived. They had formed a [[network]] of people who were learning to care about each other, the truth and righteousness as much as they cared about themselves. That [[network]] of [[Free Assemblies|freely assembled]] people functioned by [[Faith]], [[Hope]] and [[Charity]] through the [[Perfect law of liberty]] and no longer depended upon [[Benefactors]] who exercised authority to provide [[benefits]] for members of their society. They learned to provide for each other in a [[Daily ministration]] of [[Pure Religion]].<br />
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They lived in the [[World|world]] but not of the [[World|world]]. [[Rome]] had gone from a [[Republic]] to a [[Socialist]] State with the [[Emperator]] as the [[Father]] of the nation and ''Benefactor'' of society. Because of its unrighteous [[Mammon]] it had literally become a ''[[cashless]] society''. <br />
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{{#ev:youtube|UG5sp5bCpSc|300|right|'''[[Mammon]]''', NN Video Series:3-10 4:22}}<br />
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[[Road Map|People fear a future cashless]] society but in truth they are already there. The problem goes much deeper. We have become a soulless society where we are [[Biting one another]] in a thousand ways and have been devoured by our [[Covetous Practices]]. <br />
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Many warned of these practices from [[Polybius]] to [[John the Baptist]] and the Prophets of Christ himself. While some today may try to avoid the benefits in order to claim their freedom they do little to become benefactors of society who exercise [[Charity]] like some nations and people of the past. They remain [[Slothful]] and therefore should be under [[Tribute]].<br />
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The early [[Christians]] were not like [[Modern Christians]] but actually were striving to follow what [[Christ]] said to do. They were [[Doer]]s of the word. They did not depend on the [[Temples|Pagan Temples]] which provided many of the services of that pagan government of [[Rome]]. They provided for one another in a [[Network|living network]] and attended to the {{Weightier matters}}.<br />
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== Legal Tender ==<br />
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The phrase '''“legal tender”''' is found on the paper currencies of the [[world]], including those used by the United States. Blue-sealed certificates, red-sealed United States notes, or green-sealed Federal Reserve notes all state that they are “legal tender for all debts public and private.” For decades, these notes also stated that they were “redeemable in lawful money.” If they were redeemable in lawful money then it should be clear that they are not lawful money. Gold and silver are lawful money, which is used as “payment of debt.” Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p 1079.<br />
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''Legal tender'' is a ''legal offer'' in place of payment of debt and does not lawfully pay a debt. Although it may legally discharge debt, the tender or offer does not pay the debt at law. According to Stanek v. White. 172 Minn. 390, 215 N. W. 784. “There is a distinction between a debt discharged and one paid. When discharged the debt still exists, though divested of its character as a legal obligation during the operation of the discharge. Something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist…”<br />
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First, you cannot acquire a "lawful title" with mere "legal tender". You will have to settle for a a "[[legal title]]" which by definition does not include a [[beneficial interest]] in the "property".<Ref name="justweit">[[Leviticus 19]]:34 "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD." </Ref><br />
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Where does this debt continue? <br />
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In the case of US Federal Reserve notes the debt is placed on the shoulders of the US citizens who are bound by that debt and required to work without pay. We call that income tax. That does not go to provide services but to pay off the debt note interest...<br />
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Stanek v. White goes on to say, “…which may be transferred, even though the transferee takes it subject to its disability incident to the discharge. The fact that it carries something which may be a consideration for a new promise to pay, so as to make an otherwise worthless promise a legal obligation, makes it the subject of transfer by assignment.”<br />
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Those notes are partly why you do not own your land, your labor or your children which are now bound in a perpetual cycle of debt.<br />
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== Inflation Causes ==<br />
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[[Image:futile.JPG|link=http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/index.php?title=RealMoney|300px|right|thumb|'''Is Resistance futile?''' Freedom does not come from the presence or absence of money but of course there are many kinds of money. What most people "see posing as money" today is not money but debt used as if it was money. Since it has no "present value" but only an imagined value it is not really money. Money, even "stuff posing as money" is not evil. Greed, selfishness and [[wantonness]] are evil and they dwell in the hearts of men not in dead things. These things do not dwell in money nor "stuff posing as money". To focus on the money as the problem is a distraction from the real problem. The kind of money used in the [[world]] today is a symptom, a product of greed, selfishness and wantonness. Get rid of money and you will have just as much [[greed]], [[selfishness]] and [[wantonness]]. [[Seek]] instead the cure.]]<br />
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People see inflation increasing and it will likely get worse, much worse.<br />
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It cannot be stopped without disastrous results and it is bringing disaster with it.<br />
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Many will suffer and chaos will reign.<br />
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Some are trying to implement alternative money plans now and have asked me to join with them to implement those alternatives. <br />
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Some may encourage the use of commodities, things with present value, in exchange of goods and services when ever practical so that people could start learning the honorable skills required for liberty and art of networking in a way that would allow an alternative to become manifest during a time of economic crises or collapse. <br />
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People have lots of different ideas.<br />
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=== Inflation of Hope ===<br />
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The problem goes much deeper than the money itself or what you use as money. <br />
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The money used today is more a symptom than the problem yet people do die every day from symptoms.<br />
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In the days ''when men were free'' money, like gold and silver, were produced by miners and silver and gold smiths. Other commodities were produced by the people. The people produced a real and valuable money supply. These mediums of exchange consisting of things with "present value" or "intrinsic value" are called [[Commodity money]].<br />
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We should only use ''commodity money'' but that may not be practical in the modern society. We should seek another [[society]] and another way to live while we live in this [[world]]. We should start learning another way, [[The Way]] of Christ.<br />
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As this [[world]] society continues to break down opportunity to replace it with an alternative system will occur.<br />
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Most will seek worse solutions and suffer for it as they have done for centuries. The real problem is the [[greed]], [[selfishness]] and [[wantonness]]. To point to money as the problem takes our mind off the real problem. It is always easier to point to other people, other things as the problem rather than examine ourselves.<br />
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'''[[Hope]] is found in those few who will come together to sustain local communities''' without any [[greed]], [[selfishness]] and [[wantonness]]. That is not easy to find. It might be good to have a system of commodity money which is in essence barter, but that is not where we start. These alternatives will rise from the people to replace inflationary [[Edward Mandell House|fiat currency]]<Ref name="fiat">''Fiat money'' is a government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold.</Ref> now in circulation which will become as worthless in the minds of merchants as they are already decaying in value today. The illusion of value is all that sustains the present market and the fear to admit that modern currency has no present value.<br />
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Without present value in currency of exchange within a society there will be no liberty but the loss of liberty began with that [[greed]], [[selfishness]] and [[wantonness]] dwelling in out hearts.<br />
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Most people will not act or [[Home|prepare]] or have the moral character to do what is required as a society to overcome such events peaceably. The lack of value in our money comes from the lack of value in our own souls and hearts and minds. We need to [[repent]], change the thinking of our minds. We need to seek the [[kingdom of God]] with all our hearts. We need to seek the [[righteousness]] of God with our very souls.<br />
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== Utter Money ==<br />
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Of course US Persons cannot intend to establish something that could be used for or as ''current money'' they could be sent to jail for five years and or fined. <br />
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You can see because of 18 USC § 486 - Uttering coins of gold, silver or other metal <br />
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"Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title [1] or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/486<br />
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Some people are looking for alternative currencies because the ones in circulation seem to be about to fail.<br />
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Some have tried to create liberty dollars with disastrous effects that I warned them about but they would not listen to those warnings because they wanted to believe in their solution.<br />
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Turning a blind eye to the weakness and error of their position will get you in trouble almost every time. <br />
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It was obvious they were trying to create an alternative currency which will be rejected if successful.<br />
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That is illegal if you are using similar or same terms used in or by the present currency makers of the realm of the "world".<br />
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== Bitcoin and digital currency ==<br />
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While the currency of the world drives men into the bondage of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons or at least not the ultimate goal of a free society.<br />
{{#ev:youtube|jk_HWmmwiAs|300|right|What is money? Why is it broken? Potential Solution? 32:29}}<br />
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[[Bitcoin]] is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
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It will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
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So what should we consider before using this electronic currency?<br />
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Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
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First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world".<br />
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Also many are suggesting its use as "current money". And some may use it to avoid taxes.<br />
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Just weights and measures are a "golden opportunity."<br />
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There are other digital forms of digital currencies that desire to become and certainly claim they are a dependable system of digital monetary exchange and in a free society they may be used as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[World]] today.<br />
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This is especially true if there is a real melt down of the economy. <br />
Digital currencies can disappear in the twinkling of the eye. <br />
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Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
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All currencies are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
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This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
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Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
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Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the twinkling of an eye.<br />
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The Fed is preparing the release of a "central bank digital currency (CBDC). <br />
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Just as the creation of other forms of digital currencies may also be outlawed. You may not be able to [[Federal_Reserve#Utter_Money|create or utter those alternatives]].<br />
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The key value in the economy of the [[Kingdom of God]] is the [[righteousness]] of God which we should be [[seek]]ing.<br />
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=== The Resets ===<br />
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What you need to prepare for the Great Reset is [[The Greatest Reset]].<br />
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"You will own nothing and you will be happy." Schwab<br />
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: '''"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."''' [[Matthew 15]]:14<br />
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Shift or reset is coming, and is already here, and it will continue economically, biologically, emotionally, and spiritually.<br />
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: “Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest re-organization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. … the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1<Ref>March 9, 1933, the Emergency Banking Relief Act, also known as Public Law 73-1, was enacted. This act, which is cited as 48 Stat. 1,</Ref>, Public Law 89-719;<Ref>[https://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/89/719.pdf PUBLIC LAW 89-719-NOV. 2, 1966] Public Law 89-719, also known as the Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966, is an act that amended the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The law primarily addresses the priority and effect of federal tax liens and levies. It was enacted on November 2, 1966, and is codified as 80 Stat. 1125.</Ref> declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. [https://www.congress.gov/95/statute/STATUTE-91/STATUTE-91-Pg1227.pdf H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress session June 5, 1933] - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments…"<Ref>Congressman Traficant in the House Congressional Record, March 17, 1993, Volume 33, H1303.</Ref><br />
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All this had a great effect on the [[legal title]] of property held by citizens and making those [[citizen]]s collateral or [[surety]] for debt. That debt has continued to increase making the people human resources or [[merchandise]] and has [[curse children|cursed children]]. Much of this is covered in the study series [http://www.hisholychurch.org/outline.php#COG Covenants of the gods] or the book [[COg|Covenants of the gods]].<br />
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== Banker Wars ==<br />
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{{#ev:youtube|BrKf9nYeXT0|300|right|'''All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars''' by Michael Rivero explores a common central banking connection behind America’s wars which most . Direct quotes from the founders, presidents, and other world leaders are cited regarding each bankers and wars. Bf the major wars America was involved in, beginning with the American Revolution, King George III and Benjamin Franklin, and culminating with a warning and solution to avoiding World War III https://youtu.be/BrKf9nYeXT0 Time 43:33}} <br />
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All Wars Are Banker Wars is a video by Michael Rivero who presents a great deal of information and quotes Americans did [[Schools as Tools|not learn in school]]. While we know that bankers in Europe became wealthy by financing wars, some times on both sides of conflicts, but few know how much of those unethical practices came to America nor the effect those institutions have had on what was once the American dream?<br />
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Students of real history know wars over man's long history can be extremely profitable for some. But banking in all of its form has also been profitable beyond the wildest imagination of the bankers themselves.<br />
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this world would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain slaves of the Bankers and pay for the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." -- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain.<br />
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The original idea of banking was to rent the value of something you have so that others may use it and generate more value. You might borrow materials to make a boat so that you could go catch more fish. But in modern central banking they are loaning what they do not have, what has neither length and width nor has weight and measure. This charging the borrower interest for the use of nothing is done with the intent of owning everything from the boat to the fish and eventually include even the borrower himself.<br />
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Everyone who is true follower of [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], or [[Jesus]] sould know but they profess with their lips while they wage war against [[The Way]] of [[righteousness]] with their [[covetous practices]] and [[idolatry]]:<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref><br />
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: "6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations,but they shall not reign over thee." [[Deuteronomy 15]]<br />
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They often do not know because they do not know [[the Way]] because they sit in [[darkness]] and follow ''blind guides''<Ref name="Blindlead'">{{Blindlead}}</Ref> and do not see because they do not know the [[LORD]]:<br />
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: "7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth." [[Deuteronomy 15]]<br />
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Both war and banking are profitable but mix them together and the profits can be staggering but always at the expense of the dead, the unborn, and many of the living. <br />
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That has been the march of history from [[Nimrod]] to [[Sumer]], from [[Pharaoh]] to the [[Ephesus|Temple at Ephesus]] loans and interest in the form of [[usury]] have made masters and subjects of mankind.<br />
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Rivero does a good job in a short period of time to lay out the basics of the story of bankers and wars. But his conclusions and solutions are not entirely correct.<br />
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Yes it is extremely profitable for banks when people go to war.<br />
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This makes central banks a major factor in promoting regular wars.<br />
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They are not the only factor.<br />
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The First Continental Congress issued a ''Declaration of Rights'' in 1774, they included the ''Currency Act of 1764'' as one of the seven British Acts labeled as “subversive of American rights.” While others proclaimed the issue of interest bearing notes to be the primary causes of the revolution. It was this issue of banks and money because they understood the far reaching c9nsequences to liberty.<Ref>"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution." -- Benjamin Franklin.</Ref> But today that system has become pervasive through out the [[world]].<br />
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Ultimately it is the [[sloth]] and ignorance, greed and selfishness of the people who desire gain, even at the expense of their neighbor.<br />
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=== Collateralization of land ===<br />
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The video fails to mention the collateralization of the "[[equitable title]]" of "[[legal title]]" held lands.<br />
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That gain desired by bankers and the people may be in the form of power and profit, but the gain desired by the people is often social welfare [[benefits]], e.g. "[[legal charity]]". It is that combination that is deadly to a free society. [[Righteousness]] can interrupt the [[elements]] of the [[world]] that bring destruction and the loss of liberty.<br />
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Americans knew back in 1694 that "The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing." because William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, said so. They knew that ''Interest Bearing bank note'' from the Bank of England forced American colonies by King George III's '''Currency Act of 1764''', which forced their business the notes of the Bank of England at interest.<br />
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It was not just the interest but the impediments and disabilities imposed by a ''monopoly'' on what was posing as value for the purchase of value in the form of land.<br />
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<blockquote>''“There is a distinction between a debt discharged and one paid. When discharged the debt still exists, though divested of its character as a legal obligation during the operation of the discharge. Something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist…” <Ref name="stanek"></Ref>''<br />
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Settlers came to ''own land'' in their own name and not just in the Kings name. They knew you could not be free without the ownership of land.<Ref>''“The first farme was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.” '' Emerson.</Ref><br />
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Many, like the [[Strangers and pilgrims]] because of their conflict with kings and banking companies, were beginning to understand if you want to [[no king|own the land like the kings]] you needed to be aware that “…which may be transferred, even though the transferee takes it subject to its disability incident to the discharge. The fact that it carries something which may be a consideration for a new promise to pay, so as to make an otherwise worthless promise a legal obligation, makes it the subject of transfer by assignment.”<Ref name="stanek"></Ref><br />
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The colonies preferred a system of “hard currency” (“Specie”, gold or silver coin) or at the very least forms of [[commodity money]]. They had some paper money in the form of bills of exchange or banknote backed by the value of land owned by individuals.<br />
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The idea of notes being backed by deposits of gold and silver has been common since before the [[golden calf]]. But the backing of the currency of the state by ''land and livestock'' where the people cared for them both but owned neither goes back at least to the [[bondage of Egypt]].<br />
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The king of Sodom offered Abraham all the possessions and spoils after the battle of Chedorlaomer,<Ref>[[Genesis 14]]:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.</Ref> if he would give the people back to him.<br />
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The idea of people ''owning nothing'' is again bandied about but the theory they ''will be happy'' is merely a sells pitch. The goal of these world elites is to kill [[capitalism]] which is the private ownership of your labor and seize all men as slaves and hold the dominion of earth itself but ''as they betray their fellowman they themselves will be betrayed''. <br />
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There was also a suggestion that the 16th Amendment is the cause of income tax on individual labor. It is not. Ratified or not the answer is elsewhere and again it is the degeneration of morality and participatory consent of the people which are at the core of that dilemma.<br />
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=== Collateralization of Labor ===<br />
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And then there is the collateralization of the labor of [[Citizen|US CITIZENS]] with the [[Social Security]] Act and the application for [[benefits]] it offers.<br />
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We must be willing to understand that it is not banks that make us "[[merchandise]]" but it is our "[[covetous practices]]" which do so. It is that which dims our vision and brings us into [[bondage]].<br />
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The banks are the "[[merchants of men|merchants of the earth]]" who will answer for their greed but we are not exonerated from our sin by theirs.<br />
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The banking systems do allow misinformation but they also tell the truth. We often fail to see the whole truth because we choose to sit in darkness.<br />
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While they allow misconceptions they publish books like Mein Kampf and The Great Reset. They appeal to our weakness to succeed at any price.<br />
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We see the same in most con-artists. They use the greed of the "mark" to capture him in a net of his own making. See the "[[One purse]]" of [[Proverbs 1]].<br />
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It is the [[appetite]] of the people to eat at the [[Table]] of the [[Welfare state]] that has become the [[snare]] of our own making. People are sitting in darkness again and failed to practice [[Pure Religion]]. <br />
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The reason there is no other [[table]] to eat in times of need than those [[tables]] established by politicians like [[FDR]] and [[LBJ]] in America or the [[world]] is the failure of the [[modern Church]] and the [[sloth]] and [[strong delusion]] of [[modern Christians]]. Many of the <br />
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The claim of "[[fraud]]" is wishful thinking. All the people who are now surety for the debt have received real things in exchange for the notes they gave.<br />
They have received real benefits, had their parents cared for, and welfare provided for them that should have been provided by true charity and not force. They have ignored the warning of the [[Sabbath]] about debt, [[covet]]ousness, and being greedy for [[Plutarch|gain, gifts and gratuities]].<br />
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Claiming [[fraud]] at this point only compounds our own sin as the fraudsters who made it all happen.<br />
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It is absolutely essential to see our part, our failure and sloth, our greed for the "[[reward of unrighteousness]]", our "[[covetous practices]]".<br />
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The narrator, Michael Rivero, imagines that a non interest note issued by the State is the solution. They are not.<br />
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He thinks the bankers are the problem and are the cause of these wars. They are not.<br />
They are instrumental and certainly motivators but the problem is us, the people. <br />
That is not a popular message, nor an easy sell to people who always want to blame others for their errors.<br />
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We have not changed since Adam.<br />
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== Options ==<br />
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But there are many alternatives to money commonly used today just like during depressions, bank failures, war, even in prisons things like cigarettes can become a monetized means of exchange. The first form of money was commodities, things of present value where you are. The first market was barter and trade.<br />
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There are numerous options for alternative money forms and some are better than others. Grain, whiskey, toilet paper have all substituted for coin and cash. <br />
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But how does one trade services? <br />
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And aren't there a lot of limitations?<br />
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The limitations decrease as trust grows.<br />
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Gold and silver have an intrinsic substance and weight. They are a commodity. But where does real [[Value]] come from?<br />
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They have a limited supply and are the product of labor.<br />
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Men can speculate which affects value but there are limits and they are real and can be weighed and measured.<br />
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So the real question is how does one increase trust?<br />
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But there are laws for trying to supplant or compete with existing ''currency'' and or do so to get around tax liability with alternate trading currency.<br />
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Don't forget USC 18 486... or laws concern conspiracy to defraud.<br />
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So what should we use?<br />
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For the short term our options are open if we are open to seek to learn real trust within a viable society based on mutual love and honor.<br />
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The short term may be all we have in some cases but we must walk in the long term approach. The question is what direction do we want to go. <br />
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==The Solution ==<br />
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What we are living is the decline and fall of new world order and like the decline of Rome the answer was to think differently, [[Repent]]!<br />
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Yes, we need an entirely new approach that history has shown us before.<br />
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[[Early Christians]] established a viable network that was called a "Republic" by Edward Gibbons who chronicled the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. <br />
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We need to let go of the [[sophistry]] of words which has been used to bring a [[strong delusion]].<br />
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'''Christians formed a social [[network]] through [[Pure Religion]] through [[charity]] and the [[perfect law of liberty]]. The subsequent [[network]] and its [[daily ministration]] sustained them through that Roman collapse.''' <br />
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Although '''emperors feared them because of their "union and discipline"''' their success was dependent upon the honor and trust found in the virtuous [[social bonds]] of their society and their natural ability because of their governing structure to fade underground and become mobile in a [[Network|living network]] overnight. <br />
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[[Repent]]ance is about thinking differently and [[seek]]ing in a different direction and we have all gone a long way down the wrong road.<br />
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=== See the whole truth ===<br />
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Nations have been [[employ|enslaved]] and brought into that [[bondage]] of debt common among every nation today. <br />
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Christ had a way and while he mentioned money, justice and mercy and the bible talks about unjust weights and measures the real commodity that sets you free is not regulated by commerce.<br />
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Remember Christ's command ''Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s,'' but also to render "unto God the things which be God’s."<br />
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[[Caesar]]s come and go and We must learn the ways of God and his natural ways of honor and trust, righteousness and law. <br />
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Did not Jesus tell us to tend to the weightier matters of law?<ref>Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ... have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. </Ref><br />
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'''Are we told to "Owe no man any thing"?''' <Ref>[[Romans 13]]:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.</Ref><br />
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'''How is it that love to drive one another into debt by [[covet]]ing our neighbors goods in hope of personal [[benefits]].''' ls it because there is no other currency or because we are bankrupt of the currency of love?<br />
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There are others who are seeking to use existing coins such as pre-1964 silver which would be existing coin. Still any attempt to defraud the government of the [[World|world]] of revenue by the use of even legitimate coin has brought prosecution and ruin for many. <br />
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=== And provide for it ===<br />
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'''It is the [[social bonds]] of the [[Network]] of [[righteousness]] that bring real wealth and viability.'''<br />
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That must be established with the network that provides for true needs of society through voluntary means and methods which are more numerous than can be listed here.<br />
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===Problems can be met ===<br />
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But purchasing things from afar from strangers with substance creates a problem of logistics. How do you deliver funds to someone on the other side of the country with nothing but hope they will reciprocate with sending your the commodity your seek to purchase.<br />
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The truth is knowledge and skill to produce or utilize alternate currencies and coins could be critical in every declining economy but something is more important than the item to be used that must never be forgotten.<br />
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So, '''the real problem is trust.''' <br />
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It is not the supply of money that is the problem. IT IS TRUST.<br />
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'''Who do we trust?'''<br />
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We have a shortage of ''trust'' in the ''world'' which is a shortage of ''honor''.<br />
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So, my recommendation is to find those who seek a moral money supply of just weights and measures and start gathering together in local groups. Start building the natural relationships of a society that build personal trust, integrity and honor.<br />
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Everyone needs to take the time to turn around step by step and do something different which we are sharing. <br />
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Not just seek to save themselves but to save others today and tomorrow.<br />
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They need to start the process back ....<br />
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Before the people were to receive any loaves and fishes Christ '''[[commanded]]''' that His ministers ''make the people'' sit down in a [[network]] of [[Tens|tens, hundreds and thousands]] [[seek]]ing the [[kingdom of God]] and his [[righteousness]] according to the "[[perfect law of liberty]]". Before the people were freed from the [[Bondage of Egypt]] they had to learn to take [[care]] of one another in [[Mark of the Beast|hard times]] without the support of [[Pharaoh]].<br />
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One of the chief factors of [[liberty]] under God is people being willing to come together in voluntary [[Free Assemblies]] like the [[early Church]] did and learn to [[love]] one another in a [[daily ministration]] of [[charitable practices]]. <br />
<br />
These '''[[Congregations|Congregations]] of Record''', [[CORE]] groups, are [[free assemblies]] bound only by [[Faith|faith]], [[Hope|hope]] and [[Charity|charity]] and the [[perfect law of liberty]]. They strive to love their neighbor as themselves in [[The Living Network]] of [[Righteousness]].<br />
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'''The [[Network Purpose|purpose]] of the Google email groups is to form a [[network]] of local [[CORE]] assemblies where people can seek to do what the [[early Church]] did - to love, and aid one another.''' <br />
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One of the chief factors of [[liberty]] under God is people being willing to come together in voluntary [[Free Assemblies]] like the [[early Church]] did and learn to [[love]] one another in a [[daily ministration]] of [[charitable practices]]. <br />
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These '''[[Congregations|Congregations]] of Record''', [[CORE]] groups, are [[free assemblies]] bound only by [[Faith|faith]], [[Hope|hope]] and [[Charity|charity]] and the [[perfect law of liberty]]. They strive to love their neighbor as themselves in [[The Living Network]] of [[Righteousness]].<br />
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The motivation and method binding a society determines the nature of that society. A free society does not use force, contractual,'' or even [[Covet|covetous]] means'' to keep the people together but rather provides the liberty of choice. A free society is a voluntary society. Anything else is not free.<br />
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* 2017-10-05: [https://lfb.org/dont-need-no-revolution/ We Don’t Need No Revolution]<br />
* 2015-12-11: [http://higherliberty.com/?p=859 Tithing and Power Politics: Taxes of a Free Nation]<br />
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== Importance of Networks - Videos ==<br />
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* 2017-10-19: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQq9aP9_SY Ben Shapiro on the importance of "social networks" outside the government]<br />
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[[Category:Network]]</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83477Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T23:32:01Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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<div>Bitcoin was first brought up in [[His Holy Church|HHC]] circles on December 4, 2012 when it was valued at $13.50. The first article on the subject was posted here on December 26, 2013 at $684. As we've developed better understanding of Bitcoin, it may be correct to view the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] as perhaps 20% good old fashion wisdom mixed with 80% subject matter ignorance. <br />
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Fortunately, HHC is not a top-down monolith. While some congregations rejected it, others embraced it. Some congregation ministers realized that Bitcoin donations from elders could be accepted over the Internet without praying world's governments for permission to do so as was required for the acceptance of checks, wire transfers, credit cards, and Paypal transactions.<br />
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Moreover, in cases of emergencies, elders (who already had verified bank accounts, credit cards, Paypal accounts, and more) could easily receive Bitcoin from their minister and convert it to the necessary fiat currency to pay hospital bills or whatever.<br />
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So the minister and the storehouse he oversees can remain separate from the [[world]] while maintaining technical proficiency to serve his congregants in an age of electronic communications. In addition, elders and their ministers who invested the time to educate themselves about the new technology of Bitcoin have been able to multiply the [[Talent|talents]] given them rather than putting them in a jar to bury where moth and rust corrupt—where inflation eats away at fiat stored in bank accounts.<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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== Basics ==<br />
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* [[What Is Money]]?<br />
* [[Denationalization|The Denationalization of Money was Predicted]]<br />
* [[Fundamental Internet Protocol]]<br />
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== Common Objections and Misconceptions ==<br />
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* [[Bitcoin v Gold]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Wastes Energy]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Bubble]]<br />
* [[Stupid Predictions]]<br />
* [[Hijacked|Bitcoin was Hijacked, Roger Ver, Aaron Day, etc.]]<br />
* [[Speculation]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Speed]]<br />
* [[Volatility]]<br />
* [[Inferior Technology]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ponzi]]<br />
* [[Co-opted|Co-opted Bitcoin?]]<br />
* [[Tucker Carlson]]<br />
* [[Quantum Computing]]<br />
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== Expanding Vision & Understanding == <br />
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* [[Energy as Money]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Reserves]]<br />
* [[Allodial Money]]<br />
* [[Equal Weights|Equal Weights and Measures]]<br />
* [[Deflation]]<br />
* [[Proof of Wealth]]<br />
* [[Hyperbitcoinization]]<br />
* [[Halving]]<br />
* [[Stablecoins]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Real Estate]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Prehistory]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ethic]]<br />
* [[World Reserve Currency]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Dominance]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Not Crypto]]<br />
* [[Inaction Is Action]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin is Logos]]<br />
* [[Time Theft]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Resilience]]<br />
* [[Big Picture]]<br />
* [[Barter]]<br />
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== Bitcoin Fixes This ==<br />
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* [[The Great Taking]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and AI]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and War]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Food]]<br />
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== Bitcoin Standard Operating Procedures ==<br />
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* [[BitcoinSOP1]] - Buy Bitcoin with Strike<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP2]] - Earn Bitcoin Reward Points with Fold Debit Card<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP3]] - Self-Custody with Aqua Wallet<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP4]] - Protect Your Keys<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP5]] - Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP6]] - Use Your Bitcoin as Collateral for a Loan<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP7]] - Bitcoin Mining (Personal Level)<br />
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== Homework ==<br />
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* [[Bitcoin Books]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Podcasts]]<br />
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== Projects ==<br />
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* [[Bitcoin and Christianity]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Birth Documentation]]<br />
* [[Decentralized Peer Review and Medical Research]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Free Speech]]<br />
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
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They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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<div>Bitcoin was first brought up in [[His Holy Church|HHC]] circles on December 4, 2012 when it was valued at $13.50. The first article on the subject was posted here on December 26, 2013 at $684. As we've developed better understanding of Bitcoin, it may be correct to view the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] as perhaps 20% good old fashion wisdom mixed with 80% subject matter ignorance. <br />
<br />
Fortunately, HHC is not a top-down monolith. While some congregations rejected it, others embraced it. Some congregation ministers realized that Bitcoin donations from elders could be accepted over the Internet without praying world's governments for permission to do so as was required for the acceptance of checks, wire transfers, credit cards, and Paypal transactions.<br />
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Moreover, in cases of emergencies, elders (who already had verified bank accounts, credit cards, Paypal accounts, and more) could easily receive Bitcoin from their minister and convert it to the necessary fiat currency to pay hospital bills or whatever.<br />
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So the minister and the storehouse he oversees can remain separate from the [[world]] while maintaining technical proficiency to serve his congregants in an age of electronic communications. In addition, elders and their ministers who invested the time to educate themselves about the new technology of Bitcoin have been able to multiply the [[Talent|talents]] given them rather than putting them in a jar to bury where moth and rust corrupt—where inflation eats away at fiat stored in bank accounts.<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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[[Category:Money]]</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83470Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:57:45Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
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They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
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This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
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First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
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It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83469Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:45:21Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83467Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:41:41Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83466Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:39:34Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83465Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:30:37Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83464Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:26:59Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
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<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83463Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:25:36Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83462Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:14:07Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83461Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T22:05:35Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83460Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T21:41:46Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
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<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83459Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T21:32:40Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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{ date: '2025-10-31', price: 109552.70 },<br />
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datasets: [{<br />
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backgroundColor: 'rgba(247,147,26,0.08)',<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83458Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T20:26:12Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
<html><br />
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/gecko-coin-price-chart-widget.js"></script><br />
<gecko-coin-price-chart-widget locale="en" outlined="true" initial-currency="usd"></gecko-coin-price-chart-widget><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<html><br />
<div id="btc-chart-wrapper" style="max-width:1100px;margin:20px auto;background:#fff;padding:20px;border-radius:12px;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;"><br />
<h2 style="text-align:center;color:#333;margin:0 0 4px;font-size:1.4rem;">Bitcoin Price (USD)</h2><br />
<div style="text-align:center;color:#666;font-size:0.9rem;margin-bottom:16px;"><br />
Daily closes · Last ~365 days (CoinGecko free tier limit) · Linear scale · Auto-updates on load<br />
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headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json' }<br />
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const json = await res.json();<br />
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if (!json.prices || !Array.isArray(json.prices) || json.prices.length === 0) {<br />
throw new Error('No price data returned from CoinGecko');<br />
}<br />
<br />
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const prices = raw.map(d => d[1]);<br />
<br />
const startPrice = prices[0];<br />
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labels: labels,<br />
datasets: [{<br />
label: 'BTC/USD',<br />
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} else {<br />
setTimeout(drawChart, 50);<br />
}<br />
})();<br />
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<br />
<br />
{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83457Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T20:09:33Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
<html><br />
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/gecko-coin-price-chart-widget.js"></script><br />
<gecko-coin-price-chart-widget locale="en" outlined="true" initial-currency="usd"></gecko-coin-price-chart-widget><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<html><br />
<div id="btc-chart-wrapper" style="max-width:1100px;margin:0 auto;background:#fff;padding:20px;border-radius:12px;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;"><br />
<h2 style="text-align:center;color:#333;margin:0 0 5px;">Bitcoin Price (USD)</h2><br />
<div style="text-align:center;color:#666;font-size:0.95rem;margin-bottom:15px;"><br />
Daily closes · Dec 26, 2013 → Present · Linear scale · Auto-updates on load<br />
</div><br />
<canvas id="btcChart" height="420"></canvas><br />
<div id="btcStatus" style="text-align:center;color:#888;font-size:0.9rem;margin-top:12px;"><br />
Loading historical data…<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartjs-adapter-date-fns@3.0.0/dist/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js"></script><br />
<script><br />
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return;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Optional free API key (highly recommended – get one at cryptocompare.com)<br />
const API_KEY = ''; // put your free key here, e.g. 'abc123...'<br />
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const START_MS = new Date('2013-12-26T00:00:00Z').getTime();<br />
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}<br />
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async function fetchBatch(toTs) {<br />
const url = new URL('https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/v2/histoday');<br />
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url.searchParams.set('tsym', 'USD');<br />
url.searchParams.set('limit', '2000');<br />
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return json.Data?.Data || [];<br />
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const batch = await fetchBatch(toTs);<br />
if (!batch.length) break;<br />
<br />
const filtered = batch.filter(d => d.time * 1000 >= START_MS);<br />
all = filtered.concat(all); // keep chronological order<br />
<br />
if (batch[0].time * 1000 <= START_MS) break;<br />
toTs = batch[0].time - 1;<br />
safety++;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Deduplicate by timestamp<br />
const map = new Map();<br />
all.forEach(d => map.set(d.time, d));<br />
return Array.from(map.values()).sort((a, b) => a.time - b.time);<br />
}<br />
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if (typeof Chart === 'undefined') {<br />
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}<br />
<br />
const data = await loadAllData();<br />
if (!data.length) throw new Error('No price data returned');<br />
<br />
const labels = data.map(d => new Date(d.time * 1000));<br />
const prices = data.map(d => d.close);<br />
<br />
setStatus(<br />
`Loaded ${data.length.toLocaleString()} days · ` +<br />
`Start ≈ $${prices[0].toLocaleString(undefined,{maximumFractionDigits:2})} · ` +<br />
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pointHoverRadius: 4,<br />
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grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
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legend: { display: false },<br />
tooltip: {<br />
callbacks: {<br />
label: ctx => ' $' + ctx.parsed.y.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 2})<br />
}<br />
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console.error(err);<br />
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<br />
{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83456Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T20:05:33Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
<html><br />
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/gecko-coin-price-chart-widget.js"></script><br />
<gecko-coin-price-chart-widget locale="en" outlined="true" initial-currency="usd"></gecko-coin-price-chart-widget><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<html><br />
<!DOCTYPE html><br />
<html lang="en"><br />
<head><br />
<meta charset="UTF-8"><br />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><br />
<title>Bitcoin Price Chart (Dec 26, 2013 – Present)</title><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartjs-adapter-date-fns@3.0.0/dist/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js"></script><br />
<style><br />
body { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; margin: 20px; background: #f8f9fa; }<br />
#chart-container { max-width: 1100px; margin: 0 auto; background: white; padding: 20px; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08); }<br />
h2 { text-align: center; color: #333; margin-bottom: 5px; }<br />
.subtitle { text-align: center; color: #666; font-size: 0.95rem; margin-bottom: 20px; }<br />
#status { text-align: center; color: #888; font-size: 0.9rem; margin-top: 10px; }<br />
</style><br />
</head><br />
<body><br />
<div id="chart-container"><br />
<h2>Bitcoin Price (USD)</h2><br />
<div class="subtitle">Daily closes · Dec 26, 2013 → Present · Linear scale · Auto-updates daily</div><br />
<canvas id="btcChart" height="420"></canvas><br />
<div id="status">Loading historical data…</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<script><br />
// Optional: replace with your free CryptoCompare API key for higher rate limits<br />
const API_KEY = 'YOUR_FREE_API_KEY'; // leave empty or keep the placeholder if you don't have one yet<br />
<br />
const START_DATE = new Date('2013-12-26T00:00:00Z');<br />
const canvas = document.getElementById('btcChart');<br />
const statusEl = document.getElementById('status');<br />
let chart = null;<br />
<br />
async function fetchAllDailyCloses() {<br />
const allData = [];<br />
let toTs = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000); // now<br />
const limit = 2000; // max per request<br />
<br />
while (true) {<br />
const url = new URL('https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/v2/histoday');<br />
url.searchParams.set('fsym', 'BTC');<br />
url.searchParams.set('tsym', 'USD');<br />
url.searchParams.set('limit', limit);<br />
url.searchParams.set('toTs', toTs);<br />
if (API_KEY && API_KEY !== 'YOUR_FREE_API_KEY') {<br />
url.searchParams.set('api_key', API_KEY);<br />
}<br />
<br />
const res = await fetch(url);<br />
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`API error ${res.status}`);<br />
const json = await res.json();<br />
<br />
if (json.Response === 'Error') throw new Error(json.Message || 'API error');<br />
<br />
const batch = json.Data.Data;<br />
if (!batch || batch.length === 0) break;<br />
<br />
// Keep only data on/after start date<br />
const filtered = batch.filter(d => d.time * 1000 >= START_DATE.getTime());<br />
allData.unshift(...filtered); // oldest first<br />
<br />
// Stop if we already reached the start date<br />
if (batch[0].time * 1000 <= START_DATE.getTime()) break;<br />
<br />
// Move the window further back<br />
toTs = batch[0].time - 1;<br />
<br />
// Safety: avoid infinite loops<br />
if (allData.length > 6000) break;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Deduplicate & sort just in case<br />
const unique = Array.from(new Map(allData.map(d => [d.time, d])).values())<br />
.sort((a, b) => a.time - b.time);<br />
<br />
return unique;<br />
}<br />
<br />
async function drawChart() {<br />
try {<br />
statusEl.textContent = 'Fetching data from Dec 26, 2013…';<br />
const data = await fetchAllDailyCloses();<br />
<br />
if (data.length === 0) throw new Error('No data returned');<br />
<br />
const labels = data.map(d => new Date(d.time * 1000));<br />
const prices = data.map(d => d.close);<br />
<br />
const startPrice = prices[0];<br />
const currentPrice = prices[prices.length - 1];<br />
<br />
statusEl.textContent = `Loaded ${data.length.toLocaleString()} daily closes · ` +<br />
`Start: $${startPrice.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 2})} · ` +<br />
`Current: $${currentPrice.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 0})}`;<br />
<br />
if (chart) chart.destroy();<br />
<br />
chart = new Chart(canvas, {<br />
type: 'line',<br />
data: {<br />
labels: labels,<br />
datasets: [{<br />
label: 'BTC/USD Close',<br />
data: prices,<br />
borderColor: '#F7931A',<br />
backgroundColor: 'rgba(247, 147, 26, 0.08)',<br />
borderWidth: 1.5,<br />
pointRadius: 0,<br />
pointHoverRadius: 4,<br />
tension: 0.05,<br />
fill: true<br />
}]<br />
},<br />
options: {<br />
responsive: true,<br />
maintainAspectRatio: false,<br />
interaction: { mode: 'index', intersect: false },<br />
scales: {<br />
x: {<br />
type: 'time',<br />
time: { unit: 'year' },<br />
title: { display: true, text: 'Date' },<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
},<br />
y: {<br />
type: 'linear', // non-logarithmic as requested<br />
title: { display: true, text: 'Price (USD)' },<br />
ticks: {<br />
callback: v => '$' + v.toLocaleString()<br />
},<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
}<br />
},<br />
plugins: {<br />
legend: { display: false },<br />
tooltip: {<br />
callbacks: {<br />
label: ctx => ` $${ctx.parsed.y.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 2})}`<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
});<br />
} catch (err) {<br />
console.error(err);<br />
statusEl.textContent = 'Error loading data: ' + err.message +<br />
' (Try adding a free CryptoCompare API key or check console)';<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Auto-update on every page load (daily freshness for visitors)<br />
drawChart();<br />
</script><br />
</body><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83455Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T20:04:54Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
<html><br />
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/gecko-coin-price-chart-widget.js"></script><br />
<gecko-coin-price-chart-widget locale="en" outlined="true" initial-currency="usd"></gecko-coin-price-chart-widget><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<!DOCTYPE html><br />
<html lang="en"><br />
<head><br />
<meta charset="UTF-8"><br />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><br />
<title>Bitcoin Price Chart (Dec 26, 2013 – Present)</title><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartjs-adapter-date-fns@3.0.0/dist/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js"></script><br />
<style><br />
body { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; margin: 20px; background: #f8f9fa; }<br />
#chart-container { max-width: 1100px; margin: 0 auto; background: white; padding: 20px; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08); }<br />
h2 { text-align: center; color: #333; margin-bottom: 5px; }<br />
.subtitle { text-align: center; color: #666; font-size: 0.95rem; margin-bottom: 20px; }<br />
#status { text-align: center; color: #888; font-size: 0.9rem; margin-top: 10px; }<br />
</style><br />
</head><br />
<body><br />
<div id="chart-container"><br />
<h2>Bitcoin Price (USD)</h2><br />
<div class="subtitle">Daily closes · Dec 26, 2013 → Present · Linear scale · Auto-updates daily</div><br />
<canvas id="btcChart" height="420"></canvas><br />
<div id="status">Loading historical data…</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<script><br />
// Optional: replace with your free CryptoCompare API key for higher rate limits<br />
const API_KEY = 'YOUR_FREE_API_KEY'; // leave empty or keep the placeholder if you don't have one yet<br />
<br />
const START_DATE = new Date('2013-12-26T00:00:00Z');<br />
const canvas = document.getElementById('btcChart');<br />
const statusEl = document.getElementById('status');<br />
let chart = null;<br />
<br />
async function fetchAllDailyCloses() {<br />
const allData = [];<br />
let toTs = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000); // now<br />
const limit = 2000; // max per request<br />
<br />
while (true) {<br />
const url = new URL('https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/v2/histoday');<br />
url.searchParams.set('fsym', 'BTC');<br />
url.searchParams.set('tsym', 'USD');<br />
url.searchParams.set('limit', limit);<br />
url.searchParams.set('toTs', toTs);<br />
if (API_KEY && API_KEY !== 'YOUR_FREE_API_KEY') {<br />
url.searchParams.set('api_key', API_KEY);<br />
}<br />
<br />
const res = await fetch(url);<br />
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`API error ${res.status}`);<br />
const json = await res.json();<br />
<br />
if (json.Response === 'Error') throw new Error(json.Message || 'API error');<br />
<br />
const batch = json.Data.Data;<br />
if (!batch || batch.length === 0) break;<br />
<br />
// Keep only data on/after start date<br />
const filtered = batch.filter(d => d.time * 1000 >= START_DATE.getTime());<br />
allData.unshift(...filtered); // oldest first<br />
<br />
// Stop if we already reached the start date<br />
if (batch[0].time * 1000 <= START_DATE.getTime()) break;<br />
<br />
// Move the window further back<br />
toTs = batch[0].time - 1;<br />
<br />
// Safety: avoid infinite loops<br />
if (allData.length > 6000) break;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Deduplicate & sort just in case<br />
const unique = Array.from(new Map(allData.map(d => [d.time, d])).values())<br />
.sort((a, b) => a.time - b.time);<br />
<br />
return unique;<br />
}<br />
<br />
async function drawChart() {<br />
try {<br />
statusEl.textContent = 'Fetching data from Dec 26, 2013…';<br />
const data = await fetchAllDailyCloses();<br />
<br />
if (data.length === 0) throw new Error('No data returned');<br />
<br />
const labels = data.map(d => new Date(d.time * 1000));<br />
const prices = data.map(d => d.close);<br />
<br />
const startPrice = prices[0];<br />
const currentPrice = prices[prices.length - 1];<br />
<br />
statusEl.textContent = `Loaded ${data.length.toLocaleString()} daily closes · ` +<br />
`Start: $${startPrice.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 2})} · ` +<br />
`Current: $${currentPrice.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 0})}`;<br />
<br />
if (chart) chart.destroy();<br />
<br />
chart = new Chart(canvas, {<br />
type: 'line',<br />
data: {<br />
labels: labels,<br />
datasets: [{<br />
label: 'BTC/USD Close',<br />
data: prices,<br />
borderColor: '#F7931A',<br />
backgroundColor: 'rgba(247, 147, 26, 0.08)',<br />
borderWidth: 1.5,<br />
pointRadius: 0,<br />
pointHoverRadius: 4,<br />
tension: 0.05,<br />
fill: true<br />
}]<br />
},<br />
options: {<br />
responsive: true,<br />
maintainAspectRatio: false,<br />
interaction: { mode: 'index', intersect: false },<br />
scales: {<br />
x: {<br />
type: 'time',<br />
time: { unit: 'year' },<br />
title: { display: true, text: 'Date' },<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
},<br />
y: {<br />
type: 'linear', // non-logarithmic as requested<br />
title: { display: true, text: 'Price (USD)' },<br />
ticks: {<br />
callback: v => '$' + v.toLocaleString()<br />
},<br />
grid: { color: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.05)' }<br />
}<br />
},<br />
plugins: {<br />
legend: { display: false },<br />
tooltip: {<br />
callbacks: {<br />
label: ctx => ` $${ctx.parsed.y.toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 2})}`<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
});<br />
} catch (err) {<br />
console.error(err);<br />
statusEl.textContent = 'Error loading data: ' + err.message +<br />
' (Try adding a free CryptoCompare API key or check console)';<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Auto-update on every page load (daily freshness for visitors)<br />
drawChart();<br />
</script><br />
</body><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Original_Bitcoin_Article&diff=83454Original Bitcoin Article2026-08-21T20:02:20Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Perspective */</p>
<hr />
<div>While the currency of the world drives men into the [[bondage]] of debt many alternative currencies are not much better for other reasons.<br />
[[File:bitcoin.jpg|right]]<br />
Bitcoin is trying to create a "cryptocurrency".<br />
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-satoshi-forest/<br />
<br />
They were playing with words but the point is Bitcoin is not dependable which puts it on the same footing as all the other digital accounts we have in the [[world]] today and when the unrighteous [[Mammon]] fails Bitcoin will also fail. <br />
<br />
This is especially true if there is a real meltdown of the economy. <br />
Bitcoin can disappear in that ''twinkling of the eye''. <br />
<br />
Is that a reason not to use them? <br />
<br />
Because many are suggesting its use as "current money" and some may use it to avoid taxes, it will be scrutinized and possibly even sanitized by the powers that be...<br />
<br />
So, what should we consider before using this electronic currency.<br />
Questions will arise is it legal, biblical, moral?<br />
<br />
First, Bitcoin is not a "just weight or measure" and has no intrinsic value or even substance. It is not [[Real Money]]. It is not biblical because the only biblical money is a [[commodity money]] of ''present value'' based on tangible substance. <br />
<br />
It is highly speculative and dependent on a "digital world". While it is decentralized it is dependent upon a system that is controlled. A "digital world" is dependent upon an electrical grid which could disappear in a ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
As I read one comment I emphasize some the text "My point...'''We can not depend too much''' on '''digital''' technology. It '''does not fully measure''' up and it can leave us weighed in the balance. I '''recommend''' getting back to ''just weights and measures''. It's a golden opportunity."<br />
<br />
''Just weights and measures'' does not mean gold and silver coins. It means what it says. It is ''just weights and measures''. There is no stamped value, only a measure of weight and a measure of substance.<br />
<br />
All ''currencies'' are subject to failure. It is not a weight that can be measured but a market value based on digital entries that have limited available amount.<br />
<br />
This limitation, like gold and silver in the ground, adds to its value because as more people seek to use them the demand drives the value up.<br />
Unlike gold and silver and other metals no matter how hard you work you can only produce so many.<br />
<br />
Federal reserve notes and the digital transactions of account entries have no real value either and can lose all their "apparent" value in the ''twinkling of an eye''.<br />
<br />
But ''Just weights and measures'' is not enough. It has limitations because it is bound to the physical world. You need a system of trust to move substance electronically.<br />
<br />
What you need is a [[network]] of living souls who love one another as much as they love themselves and are bound together by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]]. What you need is the [[kingdom of God]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
<br />
'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
<html><br />
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/gecko-coin-price-chart-widget.js"></script><br />
<gecko-coin-price-chart-widget locale="en" outlined="true" initial-currency="usd"></gecko-coin-price-chart-widget><br />
</html><br />
<br />
<html><br />
<!DOCTYPE html><br />
<html lang="en"><br />
<head><br />
<meta charset="UTF-8"><br />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><br />
<title>Bitcoin Price Chart (Dec 26, 2013 – Present)</title><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script><br />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartjs-adapter-date-fns@3.0.0/dist/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js"></script><br />
<style><br />
body { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; margin: 20px; background: #f8f9fa; }<br />
#chart-container { max-width: 1100px; margin: 0 auto; background: white; padding: 20px; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08); }<br />
h2 { text-align: center; color: #333; margin-bottom: 5px; }<br />
.subtitle { text-align: center; color: #666; font-size: 0.95rem; margin-bottom: 20px; }<br />
#status { text-align: center; color: #888; font-size: 0.9rem; margin-top: 10px; }<br />
</style><br />
</head><br />
<body><br />
<div id="chart-container"><br />
<h2>Bitcoin Price (USD)</h2><br />
<div class="subtitle">Daily closes · Dec 26, 2013 → Present · Linear scale · Auto-updates daily</div><br />
<canvas id="btcChart" height="420"></canvas><br />
<div id="status">Loading historical data…</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<script><br />
// Optional: replace with your free CryptoCompare API key for higher rate limits<br />
const API_KEY = 'YOUR_FREE_API_KEY'; // leave empty or keep the placeholder if you don't have one yet<br />
<br />
const START_DATE = new Date('2013-12-26T00:00:00Z');<br />
const canvas = document.getElementById('btcChart');<br />
const statusEl = document.getElementById('status');<br />
let chart = null;<br />
<br />
async function fetchAllDailyCloses() {<br />
const allData = [];<br />
let toTs = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000); // now<br />
const limit = 2000; // max per request<br />
<br />
while (true) {<br />
const url = new URL('https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/v2/histoday');<br />
url.searchParams.set('fsym', 'BTC');<br />
url.searchParams.set('tsym', 'USD');<br />
url.searchParams.set('limit', limit);<br />
url.searchParams.set('toTs', toTs);<br />
if (API_KEY && API_KEY !== 'YOUR_FREE_API_KEY') {<br />
url.searchParams.set('api_key', API_KEY);<br />
}<br />
<br />
const res = await fetch(url);<br />
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`API error ${res.status}`);<br />
const json = await res.json();<br />
<br />
if (json.Response === 'Error') throw new Error(json.Message || 'API error');<br />
<br />
const batch = json.Data.Data;<br />
if (!batch || batch.length === 0) break;<br />
<br />
// Keep only data on/after start date<br />
const filtered = batch.filter(d => d.time * 1000 >= START_DATE.getTime());<br />
allData.unshift(...filtered); // oldest first<br />
<br />
// Stop if we already reached the start date<br />
if (batch[0].time * 1000 <= START_DATE.getTime()) break;<br />
<br />
// Move the window further back<br />
toTs = batch[0].time - 1;<br />
<br />
// Safety: avoid infinite loops<br />
if (allData.length > 6000) break;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Deduplicate & sort just in case<br />
const unique = Array.from(new Map(allData.map(d => [d.time, d])).values())<br />
.sort((a, b) => a.time - b.time);<br />
<br />
return unique;<br />
}<br />
<br />
async function drawChart() {<br />
try {<br />
statusEl.textContent = 'Fetching data from Dec 26, 2013…';<br />
const data = await fetchAllDailyCloses();<br />
<br />
if (data.length === 0) throw new Error('No data returned');<br />
<br />
const labels = data.map(d => new Date(d.time * 1000));<br />
const prices = data.map(d => d.close);<br />
<br />
const startPrice = prices[0];<br />
const currentPrice = prices[prices.length - 1];<br />
<br />
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Quantum computing itself is based on a false premise. On the other hand, a reality-based premise is fundamental to Bitcoin.</br><br />
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Quantum computing itself is based on a false premise. On the other hand, a reality-based premise is fundamental to Bitcoin.</br><br />
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<div>[[File:eccehomo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Pilate was about to sit in the judgment seat of the "[[world]]" of [[Rome]] and judge Jesus in court but Jesus' kingdom was not of Pilate's '''[https://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php kosmos]'''. ]]<br />
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When people try to talk about the [[kingdom of God]] being a real system or [[The Way|way]] of [[righteousness]] many [[modern Christians]] respond with the "kingdom of God is not of this world" as if the kingdom is not on the planet. But it is at hand so what did Jesus really mean?<br />
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When [[Jesus]] told [[Pontius Pilate]], who was about to sit in the judgment seat,<Ref>John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.</Ref> that His Kingdom was not of the “[[World|world]]” we see one of five different Greek words found in the New Testament which have all been translated into the single word “[[World|world]]”. <br />
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The word was ''kosmos'', and it is defined in Strong's Concordance as an “orderly arrangement” but without knowing the historical etymology and common usage at that time this definition by itself can be deceptive. <br />
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In Joseph Henry Thayer's Greek Lexicon and [https://www.blueletterbible.org/help/BLBStrongs.cfm "The Outline of Biblical Usage"] <Ref>[The Outline of Biblical Usage was created by Larry Pierce], creator of the Online Bible, and is used with permission. For further information on this tool...Larry Pierce combined what Dr. Strong cited with Smith's Bible Dictionary and Dr. Thayer cited in his abridged Thayer's 1889 Greek-English Lexicon. It is keyed to Kittel's “Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.” This resulted in the Greek Definitions module for the Online Bible [OLB] Concordance, Winterbourne, Ontario, Canada. [https://onlinebible.net/ Online Bible Software]. </Ref> we see κόσμος [Kosmos] is primarily defined as: <br />
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# '''“an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government.”'''<Ref>https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G2889&t=KJV. See also the Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Kosmos". And [https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/kosmos.html The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon] </Ref><br />
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Some also teach that the word ''Kosmos'' is referring to ''believers only'' in some of John and Corinthians.<Ref> of ''believers only'', John 1:29; John 3:16; John 3:17; John 6:33; John 12:47 I Corinthians 4:9; II Corinthians 5:19</Ref> This could be an acceptable approach to the text since both the [[Caesar]]s of [[Rome]] and [[Jesus]] as the [[Christ]] offered the people an “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government.” Rome's system, although a [[Republic]] at first, became a government dependent upon [[fealty]], [[force]], and [[fear]]. It offered the people [[protection]], [[Social Security|security]], and [[free bread]] in exchange for power. Jesus offered another [[one form of government|form of government]], the [[Kingdom of God]], dependent upon [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]] where its ''[[called out]] ministers'' could not ''[[exercise authority]] one over the other.''<br />
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The [[Kingdom of God]] was not of the [[world]] of [[Rome]] and Pontius Pilate but it is at hand. People need to change the way they think about that kingdom. It is not about going to a church and just loving those who love you.<Ref>[[Luke 6]]:32 For if ye love them which love you, what [[grace|thank]] have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.</Ref> It is about gathering and loving even those who hate us. That is [[repent]]ance.<br />
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The [[Kingdom of God]] is the "harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government" operating by faith, hope and charity by the [[perfect law of liberty]] according to the [[doctrines of Jesus]].<br />
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Once we are willing to understand that the [[kingdom of God]] is now, here on this planet, for the living, in this [[world]] just not of the [[world]]s like [[Rome]] our thinking about the [[gospel of the kingdom]] must change. That too is [[repent]]ance.<br />
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We should be seeking the [[The Congregation|"harmonious arrangement"]] of the [[kingdom of God]] by striving<Ref>[[Luke 13]]:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.</Ref> and persevering<Ref>Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;<br />
: Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the [[kingdom of God]].</Ref> to do what Christ [[The Congregation|commanded that the people should do]].<br />
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To find the [[righteousness]] of God we need to seek His [[Holy Spirit]] by coming in the name of Christ, who came to serve not be served,<Ref>[[Luke 22]]:27 For whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.<br />
: [[Luke 15]]:19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.<br />
: [[Luke 16]]:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and [[mammon]].:<br />
: John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour.</Ref> who came to set men free not impose heavy burdens upon the people,<Ref>Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.<br />
: [[Isaiah 58]]:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?</Ref> who came to lay down his life that others might be saved.<Ref>John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.<br />
: John 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. 19 ¶ There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.</Ref><br />
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There is the "[[world]]" or "kosmos" of [[Cain]], [[Nimrod]], [[Egypt]] and [[Rome]] and there is the [[world]] of [[Christ]], His kingdom of righteousness. One functions by the rule of force and fear and the other serves righteousness through freedom and faith.<br />
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Christians were not to be "of" the [[world]] of [[Rome]] but "in" it. Early followers of Christ knew what that meant because they understood the word "Kosmos". There seems to be an actual effort to avoid the true meaning of that word to evade the truth that the kingdom of God is actually at hand. <br />
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That "[[Kosmos]]"/[[world]] of [[Rome]] had become a system of [[covetous practices]] where the people were [[biting one another]] through the power of governments for personal [[benefits]] and gain which made the people [[merchandise|human resources]]. [[Early Christians]] understood that and in their pursuit of the [[righteousness]] of [[Pure Religion]] and [[The Way]] of Christ the difference in what they did caused [[Christian conflict|conflict and persecution]].<br />
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In the 7th century BC, the term "kosmos" was used in constitutions to describe the jurisdictional "office of magistrate".<Ref> “(One can add that certain places are known to have taken positive steps to ensure that regular office did not become a stepping-stone to tyranny. For example, a very early constitutional inscription shows that 7th-century Drerus on Crete prohibited tenure of the office of kosmos—a local magistracy—until 10 years had elapsed since a man’s last tenure.) That is a refreshing approach and surely contains some truth. “ The Later Archaic Periods, The rise of the tyrants https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece/The-later-Archaic-periods</Ref> <br />
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Of course, we see in the fifth century BC that "[[Kosmos#The_Constitutional_Law_of_Dreros|The Constitutional Law of Dreros]]" limited the government office of "kosmos" to "ten years" as a term limit. The office of [[Imperator]] of Rome was also limited to 10 years but he could be reelected repeating his oath of office.<br />
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Even in the middle ages, the word "kosmos" was still associated with the constitutional power of the Emperor and the government of [[Rome]] and the ''fetters of tyranny'' that bind the people as civic [[merchandise]] and ''human resources''.<Ref>"The indestructible empire in its divine dignity as the Kosmos of law, of civic prosperity, of freedom, of peace and culture, was to be delivered from its fetters, and the Emperor of Rome was to re-ascend his throne as impartial head of the [[world]]." HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ROME IN THE MIDDLE AGES. VOL. VI.— PART I. By Ferdinand Gregorovius.</Ref><br />
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In the Greek and Roman view of the term ''[[Kosmos]]'' “... meant originally the discipline of an army, and next the ordered constitution of a state.”<Ref>John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy: Section A: Introduction </Ref> <br />
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The word κόσμος came from the Greek “komizo” meaning “to care for, take care of, provide for” or “carry off what is one’s own.” <br />
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''Kosmos'' did not mean the ''planet'', ''inhabitable place'', or ''age''. It had to do with courts, magistrates, an office of government, militias, and armies organized to establish and maintain governments.<br />
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:: "May God be kind (?). The city has thus decided; when a man has been kosmos, the same man shall not be kosmos again for ten years. If he does act as kosmos, whatever, judgements he gives, he shall owe double, and he shall lose his rights to office, as long as he lives, and whatever he does as kosmos shall be nothing. The swearers shall be the kosmos (.e. the body of kosmoi) and the damioi, and twenty of the city."<br />
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:: "The law forbids the repeated tenure of the office of [[kosmos]], presumably, as elsewhere in Crete, the chief magistracy, before ten years have elapsed. The provision is paralleled at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gortyn Gortyn]<Ref>Gortyn is an archaeological site on the Mediterranean island of Crete</Ref>... sixth century, and it has generally been explained there by the need to make a break in the financial and legal immunity of a magistrate. The length of time which has to elapse in Dreros, however, suggests strongly that the motive was rather to limit the possibilities of using the office as a stepping-stone to tyranny (the first editors) or to bolster the power of an individual family (Ehrenberg, Willets)."<br />
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== [https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-09-47.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.09.47] ==<br />
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Kosmos: "regulator", a magistrate (or group of magistrates) in the cities of Crete. <br />
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Gerusia or gerousia was a council of old men which had a similar position in the Cretan constitution, according to which only the members of the highest magistracy, called the kosmoi, or regulators, could enter the council, and that only after a blameless term of administration.<Ref>Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)</Ref><br />
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We can see in the Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum<Ref> Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum: 524 https://www.attalus.org/docs/sig1/s524.html</Ref> where there was a Treaty between Praisos an Stalai in Crete around the early 3rd century B.C. where there is a reference to "chief kosmos, along with the other kosmoi" who were magistrates of the Praisians along with twelve citizens under oaths were settling territorial boundaries.<br />
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In the first half of 2nd century B.C. there was the decree attributed to the reign of Attalos I<Ref>https://www.attalus.org/docs/ogis/s270.html</Ref> designating "the award of the crown shall be announced at one of the games" by the ''kosmoi'' who were magistrates. Besides the crown they would grant "privileged seating and inviolability and freedom from taxes and security both in war and in peacetime, both in the city and in its harbours... for his descendants, and the other privileges that are granted to other benefactors."<br />
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Matthew 4:8 '''Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world <2889>, and the glory of them;'''<br />
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Matthew 5:14 '''Ye are the light of the world <2889>. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.'''<br />
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Matthew 13:35 '''That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world <2889>.'''<br />
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Matthew 13:38 '''The field is the world <2889>; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;'''<br />
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Matthew 16:26 '''For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world <2889>, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?'''<br />
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Matthew 18:7 '''Woe unto the world <2889> because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!<br />
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Matthew 24:21 '''For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world <2889> to this time, no, nor ever shall be.'''<br />
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Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world <2889>:<br />
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Matthew 26:13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world <2889>, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.<br />
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Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world <2889>, and lose his own soul?<br />
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Mark 14:9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world <2889>, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.<br />
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Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world <2889>, and preach the gospel to <br />
every creature.<br />
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Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world <2889>, and lose himself, or be cast away?<br />
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Luke 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world <2889>, may be required of this generation;<br />
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Luke 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world <2889> seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.<br />
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John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world <2889>.<br />
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John 1:10 He was in the world <2889>, and the world <2889> was made by him, and the world <2889> knew him not.<br />
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John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world <2889>.<br />
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John 3:16 For God so loved the world <2889>, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.<br />
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John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world <2889> to condemn the world <2889>; but that the world <2889> through him might be saved.<br />
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John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world <2889>, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.<br />
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John 4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world <2889>.<br />
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John 6:14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world <2889>.<br />
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John 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world <2889>.<br />
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John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world <2889>.<br />
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John 7:4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world <2889>.<br />
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John 7:7 The world <2889> cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.<br />
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John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world <2889>: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.<br />
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John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world <2889>; I am not of this world <2889>.<br />
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John 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world <2889> those things which I have heard of him.<br />
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John 9:5 As long as I am in the world <2889>, I am the light of the world <2889>.<br />
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John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world <2889>, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.<br />
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John 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world <2889>, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?<br />
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John 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world <2889>.<br />
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John 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world <2889>.<br />
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John 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world <2889> is gone after him.<br />
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John 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world <2889> shall keep it unto life eternal.<br />
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John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world <2889>: now shall the prince of this world <2889> be cast out.<br />
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John 12:46 I am come a light into the world <2889>, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.<br />
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John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to <br />
judge the world <2889>, but to save the world <2889>.<br />
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John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he <br />
should depart out of this world <2889> unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world <2889>, he loved them unto the end.<br />
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John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world <2889> cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.<br />
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John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world <2889> seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.<br />
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John 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world <2889>?<br />
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John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world <2889> giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.<br />
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John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world <2889> cometh, and hath nothing in me.<br />
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John 14:31 But that the world <2889> may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.<br />
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John 15:18 If the world <2889> hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.<br />
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John 15:19 If ye were of the world <2889>, the world <2889> would love his own: but because ye are not of the world <2889>, but I have chosen you out of the world <2889>, therefore the world <2889> hateth you.<br />
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John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world <2889> of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:<br />
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John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world <2889> is judged.<br />
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John 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world <2889> shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.<br />
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John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world <2889>.<br />
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John 16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world <2889>: again, I leave the world <2889>, and go to the Father.<br />
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John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world <2889> ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world <2889>.<br />
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John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world <2889> was.<br />
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John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world <2889>: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.<br />
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John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world <2889>, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.<br />
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John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world <2889>, but these are in the world <2889>, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.<br />
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John 17:12 While I was with them in the world <2889>, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.<br />
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John 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world <2889>, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.<br />
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John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world <2889> hath hated them, because they are not of the world <2889>, even as I am not of the world <2889>.<br />
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John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world <2889>, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.<br />
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John 17:16 They are not of the world <2889>, even as I am not of the world <2889><br />
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John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world <2889>, even so have I also sent them into the world <2889>.<br />
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John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world <2889> may believe that thou hast sent me.<br />
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John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world <2889> may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.<br />
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John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world <2889>.<br />
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John 17:25 O righteous Father, the world <2889> hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.<br />
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John 18:20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world <2889>; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.<br />
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John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world <2889>: if my kingdom were of this world <2889>, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.<br />
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John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world <2889>, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.<br />
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John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world <2889> itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.<br />
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[[Category:Words]]</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_v_Real_Estate&diff=83265Bitcoin v Real Estate2026-07-30T03:06:56Z<p>Calebeaton: /* Series: Rethinking Real Estate in a Bitcoin World */</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Renting is not a waste of money<br><br>You&#39;re paying to consume the property<br><br>You&#39;re getting shelter<br><br>The owner doesn&#39;t get access to the property during the time that you&#39;re using it as a renter<br><br>Fiat currencies make it seem like real estate values increase over time<br><br>But in terms of… <a href="https://t.co/0q1xkvJcj9">pic.twitter.com/0q1xkvJcj9</a></p>&mdash; Rajat Soni, CFA (@rajatsonifnance) <a href="https://twitter.com/rajatsonifnance/status/1987384355992264940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Why Bitcoin is Better than Real Estate ==<br />
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== Scarcest Asset on Earth ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;This house was $1.4 million 4 years ago. Now it&#39;s $2.1 million... It was 300 bitcoin 4 years ago. Now it&#39;s 22 bitcoin. In 4 years, this house will be 2 bitcoin... it&#39;s a really bad store of value compared to Bitcoin.&quot; - <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBooth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffBooth</a> w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WalkerAmerica</a><br> <a href="https://t.co/naT460nUZm">pic.twitter.com/naT460nUZm</a></p>&mdash; THE Bitcoin Podcast (@titcoinpodcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/titcoinpodcast/status/1943151310020263951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Real Estate as wealth protection will move to bitcoin ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">People borrow hundreds of thousands to buy a pile of lumber, plastic, and drywall that decays and goes out of style over time.<br><br>And yet, after 30 years, that $500,000 house is somehow worth $2.16 million.<br><br>Your house didn’t get better.<br>The money got worse.</p>&mdash; Joe Burnett, MSBA (@IIICapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1911038961172033692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This apartment at Manhattan costs $150 million! It’s so pricy because Manhattan is being used as a store-of-value for rich people. Imagine when these people understand Bitcoin.<a href="https://t.co/uBEwE2olEj">pic.twitter.com/uBEwE2olEj</a></p>&mdash; Bitcoin for Freedom (@BTC_for_Freedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/BTC_for_Freedom/status/1903127129983734170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Could bitcoin grow by another 100x? Yes. <a href="https://t.co/0kBt0vkHJn">pic.twitter.com/0kBt0vkHJn</a></p>&mdash; Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1894453014661825010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin is going to demonetize real estate 10x faster than gold. <br><br>I think most people think Bitcoin will replace gold and then come after real estate. However, I think the opposite will happen. <br><br>I think real estate is in a far bigger bubble than gold. For 40 years everyone…</p>&mdash; FiatHawk (@FiatHawk) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiatHawk/status/1905776943318061077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your house is not worth more. <br><br>Your money is just worth less. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> fixes this. <a href="https://t.co/qkXKspoHU4">pic.twitter.com/qkXKspoHU4</a></p>&mdash; ⚡₿itcoinTeddy⚡ (@Bitcoin_Teddy) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bitcoin_Teddy/status/1910122819838501052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin &gt; Real Estate <a href="https://t.co/uB5aEcF6Or">pic.twitter.com/uB5aEcF6Or</a></p>&mdash; Glocke 🧡 (@Kluckies_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kluckies_/status/1910654281381724186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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Millionaires no longer need 6 pieces of prime real estate as places to keep his money (2-minute video)<br />
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== Real Estate Investors Moving to Bitcoin ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mark Moss explains why he sold all 200+ of his real estate properties to buy Bitcoin <a href="https://t.co/rsuBgFcw7u">pic.twitter.com/rsuBgFcw7u</a></p>&mdash; Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoin) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyBitcoin/status/2019619861761057202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Text from a friend of mine.<br><br>Bitcoin finally clicked and he is now liquidating his $25m Real Estate portfolio to go all in on.<br><br>Why hold decaying dry wall that has property taxes &amp; tenants when you can just hold Bitcoin?<br><br>This is happening everywhere.<br><br>Nobody is bullish enough. <a href="https://t.co/L3NFF5voS6">pic.twitter.com/L3NFF5voS6</a></p>&mdash; Mitchell ✝️🇺🇸 (@MitchellHODL) <a href="https://twitter.com/MitchellHODL/status/1912590414940426501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Government-caused Distortion of Real Estate Prices ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The entire financial system is going to be built around <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> <br><br>This is genius. <a href="https://t.co/vvbCb6MSpU">pic.twitter.com/vvbCb6MSpU</a></p>&mdash; Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoinTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1894888179087323509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When you get a Bitcoin Powered Mortgage for a $500K home<br><br>You post $500K of pristine collateral, that&#39;s a 1:1 ratio.<br><br>Because other products treat Bitcoin as a &quot;risk-on&quot; tech stock borrowed against on margin<br><br>Typically you have 50-70% LTV<br><br>So you&#39;d have to post $1M of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$BTC</a> just… <a href="https://t.co/Jayy95oeLv">https://t.co/Jayy95oeLv</a></p>&mdash; CJK (@CJKonstantinos) <a href="https://twitter.com/CJKonstantinos/status/1932613844335030419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This answer stood out to me and many listeners so I wanted to share it as a full clip. <br><br>Is part of the answer to greater Bitcoin adoption… DEBT?<br><br>Thank you Luke for joining me on the show. <a href="https://t.co/aFmFZpYOiW">https://t.co/aFmFZpYOiW</a> <a href="https://t.co/nqd38zY0TI">pic.twitter.com/nqd38zY0TI</a></p>&mdash; Natalie Brunell ⚡️ (@natbrunell) <a href="https://twitter.com/natbrunell/status/1961454136479637661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br />
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== Real Estate Will Be Valued Solely for Its Utility ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like the money started to break around 1971.<br><br>Since then, the world began to monetize assets like real estate just to save for the future.<br><br>Thankfully bitcoin will extract the monetary premium out of real estate and make basic housing affordable again. <a href="https://t.co/qCnMXAVkDv">https://t.co/qCnMXAVkDv</a></p>&mdash; Joe Burnett, MSBA (@IIICapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1940778257017983402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your Home is Down 99% Over the Last 10 Years<br><br>w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBooth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffBooth</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Breedlove22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Breedlove22</a> <a href="https://t.co/lACvWd4vt7">pic.twitter.com/lACvWd4vt7</a></p>&mdash; The &quot;What is Money?&quot; Show (@WhatisMoneyShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow/status/1921964490637078830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🔥REAL ESTATE IS A DEATH SENTENCE. BITCOIN IS FREEDOM🔥<br><br>You signed a 30-year financial suicide pact with a bank that makes money off your delusions of equity.<br><br>You pay interest to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the life of your loan - just for the privilege of… <a href="https://t.co/4c8bjEWcki">pic.twitter.com/4c8bjEWcki</a></p>&mdash; Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBLiv/status/1924993722623652186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Series: Rethinking Real Estate in a Bitcoin World ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You do not know where the next real estate blind spot is coming from.<br><br>A tenant can become obsolete.<br>Interest rates can move against you.<br>Expenses can reset overnight.<br>Liquidity can disappear when you need it most.<br><br>That is why <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$BTC</a> in cold storage matters.<br><br>It gives real estate… <a href="https://t.co/0ZVLUmD2m2">pic.twitter.com/0ZVLUmD2m2</a></p>&mdash; Chris Drzyzga, SIOR | Commercial Real Estate (@ChrisDrz) <a href="https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/2082488084231319706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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Continue the Series<br />
* [https://twitter.com/ChrisDrz/status/1958189746745950364 A Warning Call to Action for the Entire Real Estate Industry] (12-minute video)</br><br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1960721902865145980 Treasury Management for Real Estate Investors]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1963260153777856793 Real estate capital markets are broken]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1965793280777699346 The days of raising capital with 5–7% returns are over]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1968329124789023141 CRE Energy Efficiency in a Bitcoin Era]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1978479041016639978 This Is Not Just Another Real Estate Cycle]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1970869230351560986 The Role of PropTech in the Bitcoin Era]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1973416057500230118 Rising Tenant Improvement Costs]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1991178378519662783 Accepting Bitcoin Rent Payments]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1993349530918736359 Bitcoin-Integrated Businesses Will Reprice Commercial Real Estate]<br />
* [https://x.com/ChrisDrz/status/1995542402497740917 Do NOT invest in real estate unless...]<br />
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{{Template:Bitcoin-Nav}}</div>Calebeatonhttps://preparingyou.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Tribalism&diff=83264Template:Tribalism2026-07-29T04:30:33Z<p>Calebeaton: </p>
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<div>[[File:Abrahamshem.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Tribalism has a variety of cultures and values which produces a variety of outcomes. [[Abraham|Abram]] had left Ur and also Haran which were city states and he seems to become part of a unique tribal system. He also avoided other city states like [[Sodom]] and Gomorrah. <Br> What was he doing and why was he able to defeat whole armies that had just conquered these city State governments when he was neither a king nor ruler? <Br> What was [[Abraham]] really doing? <Br> Did he form a free "[[Polis]]" through a [[network]] of [[Altars]] strengthen [[the bands]] of society through [[pure Religion]]? <Br>[https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20220730tribalism.mp3 Download Recording on Tribalism ] or press play <html><audio controls src="https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20220730tribalism.mp3"></audio></html> ]]<br />
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[[Tribalism]] is "the state or fact of being organized in a [[tribe]] or tribes." <br />
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[[Tribalism]] is coming back. The only question is by what [[Means and methods]].<br />
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A [[tribe]] is a ''social group'' made up of ''families or clans'' that share a common language, [[culture]], history, and ancestry. <br />
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The term can also refer informally to a large family or a [[community]] of people who share a common interest or lifestyle. But we would need to define what is meant by [[Community]].<br />
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=== DEROGATORY term ===<br />
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But as a DEROGATORY term it is thought of as "a society motivated by cultural tribalism"<br />
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Tribalism refers to a strong feeling of loyalty to one's own tribe, group, or faction, often creating an "us versus them" mentality. The "us versus them" mentality can lead to abuse, war, and even genocide.<br />
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What values could be promoted within a tribe to prevent a descent into conflict and genocide?<br />
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What practices can be held important within a culture to secure those values in the hearts and minds of the tribe?<br />
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So, [[Tribalism]] can be said to be the state of being organized in or an advocate for a traditional society consisting of families or groups families which form communities with shared values. <br />
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In terms of conformity, tribalism may also refer in popular cultural terms to a way of thinking or behaving in which people are loyal to their own tribe or social group or to common values and accepted [[Culture|cultural]] [[virtue|virtues]]. <br />
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=== Bonds social or legal bondage ===<br />
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Are the bonds of the tribe social or legal?<br />
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If a Tribe is a community what are the [[Community Ethics|Tribal ethics]], [[Community Law|Tribal law]], and [[Community Types|Tribal types]]?<br />
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[[Israel]] was a nation composed of tribes but the warred with the [[Amalek]]s from the very beginning.<br />
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What was the conflict?<br />
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Were they two types of tribes?<br />
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How were they organized and what was the [[social bonds]] of these tribes of [[Israel]] and what was the [[entangled|legal bondage]] of nations like the [[Amalek]] and how was it a [[snare|snare and trap]] that made the people [[human resources]]?<br />
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Were the [[Legalism|legal bonds]] like the other nations, like the people who were in the [[bondage of Egypt]] or in [[Nimrod]]'s [[Babylon]]?<br />
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Has our understanding of the Biblical text been skewed through the '''[[sophistry]]''' of translators who have been telling the people [[seek]]ing the [[kingdom of God]] that God wanted Israelites and the [[Church in the wilderness]] with their [[Levite]] ministers were supposed to pile up stones to make [[altars]] of [[Clay and stone]].<br />
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The [[early Christian]] community was composed of such tribes or social groups much like [[early Israel]] although the word tribe was seldom used because the emphasis was upon the [[doctrines of Jesus]] and having one [[Father]] under the [[perfect law of liberty]]. <br />
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A [[community]] was because they shared a common ''communion''. [[Communion]] was was the [[daily bread]] of a society. A Christian [[communion]] is based on the [[Eucharist]] of Christ which was provided through the [[Pure Religion]] of the [[Corban of Christ]].<br />
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This was how the created the [[social bonds]] that stretched across the Empire and even to other nations. Christians ate at [[tables]] of [[charity]] in time of [[dearth|dearths]] and famine. They had their own [[daily ministration]] and were not dependent upon the [[Father]] or [[Patronus]] of [[Rome]].<br />
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This was the Christian conflict with Rome but it allowed them to be prepare for the [[Edward Gibbons|Decline and fall of the Roman Empire]].<br />
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Tribalism has been defined as "a 'way of being' based upon variable combinations of kinship-based organization, reciprocal exchange, manual production, oral communication and analogical enquiry."<br />
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Being brothers in Christ and [[the way]] of [[Jesus]] giving them a kinship based on the values and virtues of Christ. The [[social bonds]] of Christians were nurtured by a [[daily ministration]] of [[Pure Religion]] practiced through the [[perfect law of liberty]] by [[the way]] of [[fervent charity]].<br />
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[[Tribalism]] in a derogatory sense is said to be "a [[society]] motivated by cultural tribalism".<br />
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What is the [[culture]] of the tribe of [[Abraham]] and [[Melchizedek]]?<br />
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In tribalism [[Culture]] matters.<br />
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What features could you include in your culture to prevent the reproduction of this endless cycle. <br />
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The [[elements]] of a Godly culture would include the [[rudiments]] of a righteous system to prevent that cycle of success in failure?<br />
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What keeps an individual or a tribe from a cycle of prosperity and failure?<br />
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Is your [[Baptism]] in your tribe the same as [[John the Baptist]] or was it like the baptism of [[Herod]]?<br />
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== Reason and modernisms ==<br />
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Ages of [[reason]] and enlightenment may come and go. They are marked by the hope of moving toward truth and perfection.<br />
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Rebellion against reason or the standards it claims to produce can be called ''modernism'' which is a supposedly "modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique:" exemplified in a movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms attempted to modify traditional beliefs in accordance with what would be called modern ideas.<br />
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Many modernist ideas claimed to have as a goal the liberation of mankind from the cultures of the past. The removal of those social standards of morality opened the door to the [[covetous practices]] of [[socialism]] and [[communism]].<br />
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[https://youtu.be/oyzSrtr6oJE Postmodernism] was a further departure from modernism and has at its heart a claimed distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a nihilist relationship with any notion heavily manipulated by deconstructionist denying all power, rights, and standards but who secretly desire to recreate a society where they have all power.<br />
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[https://youtu.be/30U1AAuo_wE Postmodernism] does not believe in the [[individual]], [[logic]], and dialogue. while claiming inclusion they divide all individuals in to groups of identity.<br />
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An [[ideology]] is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy: There is no part of this definition that determines the value of ideas nor their outcome when implemented. Ultimately '''"ideology" is the opinion of the individuals or collectively''', a nest of ideas and thinking built in the [[tree of knowledge]].<br />
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Despite [https://youtu.be/el6TVEMnS3E postmodernism's] ambition to believe human nature is a ''social construct'' and through social engineering man may be recreated in the desired form of the woke postmodernist..., the [[truth]] is it is the human soul that constructs the manifested man according to a ''human nature'' endowed by God. <br />
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As young people and children we are often given rules to protect us. Throwing out those social rules can produce disasters within society, having a negative effect upon our pursuit of happiness but also upon our life and liberty.<br />
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The survival of a tribe will often be determined by a generational acceptance of those cultural rules or guideposts or the often subjective interpretation of those rules.<br />
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The ''[[private interpretation]]'' of the [[Bible]] is certainly an example of this subjective interpretation. The [[Ten Commandments]] is one example.<br />
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== From City to tribe ==<br />
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[[Abraham]] left [[Babylon|Ur]] and Haran which were cities and went out and did something different with his [[Altars]] of [[Clay and stone]]. Many of the civil society collected in the city states often became a [[City of blood]] through the [[covetous practices]] of [[legal charity]] as if they had [[one purse]].<br />
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Customary tribes have their social foundations in some variation of tribal orientations based in common values and beliefs, while often taking on traditional practices (e.g. [[Abraham]]ic [[religion]]s such as [[Christianity]] and Judaism), and modern practices, including monetary exchange, mobile communications, and modern education.<br />
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The [[early Church]] did use terms like kindred, brother, brethren, adoption, [[born again]]... all of which denote the idea of "kinship-based organization". The [[early Church]] like the [[Church in the wilderness]] united the people in natural systems much like the tribes of [[early Israel]].<br />
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The myth of the "Noble Redman" is a worthy story in the creation of heroes for the next generation, but it remains a fiction from an historical perspective.<br />
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Tribalism and all it produces contradicted any idea of universal egalitarianism among the native American people who were killing, invading, enslaving, raping, and oppressing each other from one end of the Americas to the other.<br />
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While there were also good, noble, and moral native Americans they were the exception rather than the rule like all other nations or races of people.<br />
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To counter the destructive practices of tribalism a believe a wiseman decided the [[Native_American_Confederacy|White Pine Confederacy]] among some of the native American tribes.<br />
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There is no race, nor tribe and nation that has a monopoly on righteousness nor unrighteousness. Nor is there any ideology that can long be a substitute for righteousness.<br />
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== Tribe defined ==<br />
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Tribes come in all shapes and sizes.<br />
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There are various definitions of the term tribe:<br />
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An ''ethnic group'' is a set of a social group having a common national or cultural tradition but a ''tribe'' is generally a social division consisting of [[family|families]] or [[community|communities]] often linked by blood ties with a common [[culture]] and dialect, having a recognized leader.<br />
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In [[early Israel]] the people were listed as twelve tribes but all these tribes were not the same. The [[Levites]] as a tribe also played a unique roll in the political and judicial structure of their society that operated as a [[Republic]]. It should also be noted that many Egyptians left with [[Moses]] and the Israelites but seemed to blend into these different tribes with little historical need to distinguish them as a separate tribe or culture.<br />
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Which practices, values, [[virtues]] strengthen or degenerate society?<br />
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Is your society tribal?<br />
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Does it include all mankind?<br />
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The self evident truth is all men are created equal but their culture, society or communities are not all equal.<br />
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What are the practices, values, and virtues of your tribe and do those value supersede the tribe itself?<br />
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Does the tribe value appearance over substance and values.<br />
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[[Cain]] and Abel had different values and practices.<br />
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Abel was a [[Shepherd]] while [[Cain]] had the power to plow the ''adamah''.<br />
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The [[Ten Commandments]] could be considered a list of values that define what is virtue and what is not.<br />
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=== The Micro tribe ===<br />
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Men and women as a [[family]] form a ''micro tribe''.<br />
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All the same principles that make or break a village, a tribe, or a nation will also play out in the family.<br />
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A man is assertive by his male nature. His hormones genetically and biologically design him so. But we are not just genetic and biological.<br />
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If a woman has to be a boss in business she may have to take on an assertive character of a male.<br />
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Their female nature experiences an imbalance and she may feel a need to be more agreeable out of the office which can be presented as a more passive form of power assertiveness.<br />
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This imbalance creates a duality in her personality. That dual dynamic may be confusing and may even make a woman vulnerable because by her nature she me feel a need to compensate for that assertiveness when she is not at work.<br />
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That wobbling between two different personalities mixed with trauma be even generate a more bipolar pattern.<br />
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They may create a feeling or a hidden need to be to more agreeable in their private life to bring balance back.<br />
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Some men, who may also be suffering an internal may sense that need and manipulate the woman to satisfy feelings in themselves.<br />
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Through a narcissistic relationship the may use and even abuse a woman who is not fully aware of the truth about herself.<br />
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These conflict and emotional confusion may even draw that kind of man to them.<br />
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Patterns will often repeat until something occurs to break the cycle.<br />
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=== Tribes of angels and demons ===<br />
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In Federalism 51<Ref name="fed51">"But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? '''If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.''' In framing a government which is to be '''administered by men over men''', the great difficulty lies in this: you must first '''enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.''' ''A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government''; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State. But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit. It may even be necessary to guard against dangerous encroachments by still further precautions. As the weight of the legislative authority requires that it should be thus divided, the weakness of the executive may require, on the other hand, that it should be fortified." Found in the of [https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp Federalist No. 51]. Madison or Hamilton.</Ref> Madison or Hamilton writes about the devices that lead to [[tyranny]] or freedom. <br />
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The chief instrument of tyrants is to divide the people and nothing is more divisive than [[Covetous practices]]. Covetousness in all cases whether for your immediate neighbor, a neighboring tribe, or nation.<br />
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All roads lead to [[Rome]], the [[bondage of Egypt]], [[Sodom]]. and [[Babylon]] but they also lead to the [[Kingdom of God]] and liberty under God. <br />
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The differences is the choice of '''direction''' we choose to go.<br />
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His concern was that there would be a "gradual concentration of the several powers". We know that all the powers of governments comes from those powers that were endowed by God upon the individual.<br />
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Some will tell you that "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." NIV.<br />
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The King James Version of the same [[Romans 13]] is translated and “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”<br />
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The primary definition of the word [[exousia]] is the "power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases". The word [[exousia]] in the same Bible is translated ''power, authority, right, liberty, jurisdiction, and strength''. The term most often refers to the power of Jesus or the liberty of [[choice]].<br />
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God [[endow|endowed]]<ref>"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the [[consent]] of the governed," [[Declaration of Independence]].</ref> individuals with the ''right to choose'' but often men choose to give that ''power to choose'' to governments by some form of [[prayer|application]] or [[consent]]. <br />
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<blockquote><br />
'''"[[Freedom]] is the [[Exousia|Right to Choose]], the [[Rights|Right]] to create for oneself the alternatives of [[Choice]]. Without the possibility of Choice, and the [[Freedom of Religion|exercise of Choice]], a man is not a man but a [[person|member]], an instrument, a [[merchandise|thing]].”'''<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref><br />
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The desire for the dainties of [[rulers]] or the [[benefits]] of government that [[exercise authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> are called a [[snare|snare and a trap]] by the Old and New Testaments. Men then are the creators of government, not God. <br />
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The Bible is filled with [[warnings]] about giving [[consent]], [[covetous practices]] and eating of the [[dainties]] of [[rulers]]. Or even just being [[slothful]] in [[the way]] of [[righteousness]].<br />
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The author of Federalist 51 goes on to ask the question of "what is government itself" and goes onto mention the significance of "the greatest of all reflections on human nature"<Ref name="fed51"></Ref> being essential to answering that question.<br />
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<div>Bitcoin was first brought up in [[His Holy Church|HHC]] circles on December 4, 2012 when it was valued at $13.50. The first article on the subject was posted here on December 26, 2013 at $684. As we've developed better understanding of Bitcoin, it may be correct to view the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] as perhaps 20% good old fashion wisdom mixed with 80% subject matter ignorance. <br />
<br />
Fortunately, HHC is not a top-down monolith. While some congregations rejected it, others embraced it. Some congregation ministers realized that Bitcoin donations from elders could be accepted over the Internet without praying world's governments for permission to do so as was required for the acceptance of checks, wire transfers, credit cards, and Paypal transactions.<br />
<br />
Moreover, in cases of emergencies, elders (who already had verified bank accounts, credit cards, Paypal accounts, and more) could easily receive Bitcoin from their minister and convert it to the necessary fiat currency to pay hospital bills or whatever.<br />
<br />
So the minister and the storehouse he oversees can remain separate from the [[world]] while maintaining technical proficiency to serve his congregants in an age of electronic communications. In addition, elders and their ministers who invested the time to educate themselves about the new technology of Bitcoin have been able to multiply the [[Talent|talents]] given them rather than putting them in a jar to bury where moth and rust corrupt—where inflation eats away at fiat stored in bank accounts.<br />
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== Perspective ==<br />
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'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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== Basics ==<br />
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* [[What Is Money]]?<br />
* [[Denationalization|The Denationalization of Money was Predicted]]<br />
* [[Fundamental Internet Protocol]]<br />
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== Common Objections and Misconceptions ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Gold]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Wastes Energy]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Bubble]]<br />
* [[Stupid Predictions]]<br />
* [[Hijacked|Bitcoin was Hijacked, Roger Ver, Aaron Day, etc.]]<br />
* [[Speculation]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Speed]]<br />
* [[Volatility]]<br />
* [[Inferior Technology]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ponzi]]<br />
* [[Co-opted|Co-opted Bitcoin?]]<br />
* [[Tucker Carlson]]<br />
* [[Quantum Computing]]<br />
<br />
== Expanding Vision & Understanding == <br />
<br />
* [[Energy as Money]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Reserves]]<br />
* [[Allodial Money]]<br />
* [[Equal Weights|Equal Weights and Measures]]<br />
* [[Deflation]]<br />
* [[Proof of Wealth]]<br />
* [[Hyperbitcoinization]]<br />
* [[Halving]]<br />
* [[Stablecoins]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Real Estate]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Prehistory]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ethic]]<br />
* [[World Reserve Currency]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Dominance]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Not Crypto]]<br />
* [[Inaction Is Action]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin is Logos]]<br />
* [[Time Theft]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Resilience]]<br />
* [[Big Picture]]<br />
* [[Barter]]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Fixes This ==<br />
<br />
* [[The Great Taking]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and AI]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and War]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Food]]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Standard Operating Procedures ==<br />
<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP1]] - Buy Bitcoin with Strike<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP2]] - Earn Bitcoin Reward Points with Fold Debit Card<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP3]] - Self-Custody with Aqua Wallet<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP4]] - Protect Your Keys<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP5]] - Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP6]] - Use Your Bitcoin as Collateral for a Loan<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP7]] - Bitcoin Mining (Personal Level)<br />
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== Homework ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Books]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Podcasts]]<br />
<br />
== Projects ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Christianity]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Birth Documentation]]<br />
* [[Decentralized Peer Review and Medical Research]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Free Speech]]<br />
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<div>Bitcoin was first brought up in [[His Holy Church|HHC]] circles on December 4, 2012 when it was valued at $13.50. The first article on the subject was posted here on December 26, 2013 at $684. As we've developed better understanding of Bitcoin, it may be correct to view the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] as perhaps 20% good old fashion wisdom mixed with 80% subject matter ignorance. <br />
<br />
Fortunately, HHC is not a top-down monolith. While some congregations rejected it, others embraced it. Some congregation ministers realized that Bitcoin donations from elders could be accepted over the Internet without praying world's governments for permission to do so as was required for the acceptance of checks, wire transfers, credit cards, and Paypal transactions.<br />
<br />
Moreover, in cases of emergencies, elders (who already had verified bank accounts, credit cards, Paypal accounts, and more) could easily receive Bitcoin from their minister and convert it to the necessary fiat currency to pay hospital bills or whatever.<br />
<br />
So the minister and the storehouse he oversees can remain separate from the [[world]] while maintaining technical proficiency to serve his congregants in an age of electronic communications. In addition, elders and their ministers who invested the time to educate themselves about the new technology of Bitcoin have been able to multiply the [[Talent|talents]] given them rather than putting them in a jar to bury where moth and rust corrupt—where inflation eats away at fiat stored in bank accounts.<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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== Basics ==<br />
<br />
* [[What Is Money]]?<br />
* [[Denationalization|The Denationalization of Money was Predicted]]<br />
* [[Fundamental Internet Protocol]]<br />
<br />
== Common Objections and Misconceptions ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Gold]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Wastes Energy]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Bubble]]<br />
* [[Stupid Predictions]]<br />
* [[Hijacked|Bitcoin was Hijacked, Roger Ver, Aaron Day, etc.]]<br />
* [[Speculation]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Speed]]<br />
* [[Volatility]]<br />
* [[Inferior Technology]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ponzi]]<br />
* [[Co-opted|Co-opted Bitcoin?]]<br />
* [[Tucker Carlson]]<br />
* [[Quantum Computing]]<br />
<br />
== Expanding Vision & Understanding == <br />
<br />
* [[Energy as Money]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Reserves]]<br />
* [[Allodial Money]]<br />
* [[Equal Weights|Equal Weights and Measures]]<br />
* [[Deflation]]<br />
* [[Proof of Wealth]]<br />
* [[Hyperbitcoinization]]<br />
* [[Halving]]<br />
* [[Stablecoins]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Real Estate]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Prehistory]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ethic]]<br />
* [[World Reserve Currency]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Dominance]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Not Crypto]]<br />
* [[Inaction Is Action]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin is Logos]]<br />
* [[Time Theft]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Resilience]]<br />
* [[Big Picture]]<br />
* [[Problem with Barter|Barter]]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Fixes This ==<br />
<br />
* [[The Great Taking]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and AI]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and War]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Food]]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Standard Operating Procedures ==<br />
<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP1]] - Buy Bitcoin with Strike<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP2]] - Earn Bitcoin Reward Points with Fold Debit Card<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP3]] - Self-Custody with Aqua Wallet<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP4]] - Protect Your Keys<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP5]] - Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP6]] - Use Your Bitcoin as Collateral for a Loan<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP7]] - Bitcoin Mining (Personal Level)<br />
</br><br />
<br />
== Homework ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Books]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Podcasts]]<br />
<br />
== Projects ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Christianity]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Birth Documentation]]<br />
* [[Decentralized Peer Review and Medical Research]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Free Speech]]<br />
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<div>Bitcoin was first brought up in [[His Holy Church|HHC]] circles on December 4, 2012 when it was valued at $13.50. The first article on the subject was posted here on December 26, 2013 at $684. As we've developed better understanding of Bitcoin, it may be correct to view the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] as perhaps 20% good old fashion wisdom mixed with 80% subject matter ignorance. <br />
<br />
Fortunately, HHC is not a top-down monolith. While some congregations rejected it, others embraced it. Some congregation ministers realized that Bitcoin donations from elders could be accepted over the Internet without praying world's governments for permission to do so as was required for the acceptance of checks, wire transfers, credit cards, and Paypal transactions.<br />
<br />
Moreover, in cases of emergencies, elders (who already had verified bank accounts, credit cards, Paypal accounts, and more) could easily receive Bitcoin from their minister and convert it to the necessary fiat currency to pay hospital bills or whatever.<br />
<br />
So the minister and the storehouse he oversees can remain separate from the [[world]] while maintaining technical proficiency to serve his congregants in an age of electronic communications. In addition, elders and their ministers who invested the time to educate themselves about the new technology of Bitcoin have been able to multiply the [[Talent|talents]] given them rather than putting them in a jar to bury where moth and rust corrupt—where inflation eats away at fiat stored in bank accounts.<br />
<br />
== Perspective ==<br />
<br />
'''$683.94''' - Number of US Dollars required to buy one bitcoin on December 26, 2013, when the [[Original Bitcoin Article]] was posted.<br />
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'''Today's Dollars required to purchase 1 bitcoin'''<br />
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<br />
== Basics ==<br />
<br />
* [[What Is Money]]?<br />
* [[Denationalization|The Denationalization of Money was Predicted]]<br />
* [[Fundamental Internet Protocol]]<br />
<br />
== Common Objections and Misconceptions ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Gold]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Wastes Energy]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Bubble]]<br />
* [[Stupid Predictions]]<br />
* [[Hijacked|Bitcoin was Hijacked, Roger Ver, Aaron Day, etc.]]<br />
* [[Speculation]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Speed]]<br />
* [[Volatility]]<br />
* [[Inferior Technology]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ponzi]]<br />
* [[Co-opted|Co-opted Bitcoin?]]<br />
* [[Tucker Carlson]]<br />
* [[Quantum Computing]]<br />
<br />
== Expanding Vision & Understanding == <br />
<br />
* [[Energy as Money]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Reserves]]<br />
* [[Allodial Money]]<br />
* [[Equal Weights|Equal Weights and Measures]]<br />
* [[Deflation]]<br />
* [[Proof of Wealth]]<br />
* [[Hyperbitcoinization]]<br />
* [[Halving]]<br />
* [[Stablecoins]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin v Real Estate]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Prehistory]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ethic]]<br />
* [[World Reserve Currency]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Dominance]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Not Crypto]]<br />
* [[Inaction Is Action]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin is Logos]]<br />
* [[Time Theft]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Resilience]]<br />
* [[Big Picture]]<br />
* [[Barter]]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Fixes This ==<br />
<br />
* [[The Great Taking]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and AI]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and War]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Food]]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Standard Operating Procedures ==<br />
<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP1]] - Buy Bitcoin with Strike<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP2]] - Earn Bitcoin Reward Points with Fold Debit Card<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP3]] - Self-Custody with Aqua Wallet<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP4]] - Protect Your Keys<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP5]] - Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP6]] - Use Your Bitcoin as Collateral for a Loan<br />
* [[BitcoinSOP7]] - Bitcoin Mining (Personal Level)<br />
</br><br />
<br />
== Homework ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Books]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Podcasts]]<br />
<br />
== Projects ==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Christianity]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Birth Documentation]]<br />
* [[Decentralized Peer Review and Medical Research]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin and Free Speech]]<br />
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<div>Understanding bitcoin's relationship to energy not only helps one understand how it will provide more energy abundance, but also undermines the accusation of bitcoin being fiat "created from nothing."<br />
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"''The Yap Island chiefs who refused O’Keefe’s cheap Rai stones understood what most modern economists fail to grasp: a money that is easy to produce is no money at all, and easy money does not make a society richer; on the contrary, it makes it poorer by placing all its hard-earned wealth for sale in exchange for something easy to produce.''" [https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Bitcoin_Books#The_Bitcoin_Standard:_The_Decentralized_Alternative_to_Central_Banking The Bitcoin Standard] - p. 16<br />
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== Balancing the Grid ==<br />
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Bitcoin transforms otherwise wasted energy into something valuable. And bitcoin makes it economically feasible to build-out the grid to ensure extra energy is available during emergencies in which power can be easily redirected by simply shutting down bitcoin miners.</br><br />
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Bitcoin mining helps balance the Texas grid by consuming power when it is not needed and turning the miners off when there is extra demand.<br />
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Bitcoin mining addresses the electricity crises globally and helps balance demand between renewable power and AI data centers.<br />
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This X post offers a quick breakdown of seven sways Bitcoin mining lowers the cost of residential power by 20%.<br />
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Article: [https://www.da-ri.org/articles/how-bitcoin-mining-saved-texans-18-billion How Bitcoin mining stabilized the grid, saved Texans $18 billion, and earned the ire of Berkshire Hathaway Energy]<br />
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== Changing the Economics of Hydropower ==<br />
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A bitcoin mining company called [https://gridlesscompute.com/ Gridless] is helping to bring much-needed electrification to Africa by harnessing hydroelectric and other power that has otherwise been wasted because it is too remote to economically transmit it to larger cities.<br />
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Inside Africa's Secret Off-Grid Bitcoin Mines (17-minute video)</br><br />
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Free enterprise v Big Government, bleeding-heart scams that pretend to be charitable while spending other people's money. Bitcoin mining is enabling a 10-20x faster buildout of Ethiopia's electrical grid than all the previous efforts by 20 global institutions and development banks, including the UN, World Bank, IRENA, African Development Bank, and Rockefeller Foundation.</br><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You probably know that Bitcoin mining saved Virunga national park <br><br>You may not know that this isn&#39;t the only rainforest Bitcoin mining helped save<br><br>Recently in Costa Rica, the same winning combo of micro-hydro + Bitcoin mining saved another iconic jungle-clad sanctuary <a href="https://t.co/a6mzLOQ5zk">https://t.co/a6mzLOQ5zk</a></p>&mdash; Daniel Batten (@DSBatten) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSBatten/status/2008332289780875695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Flare Gas ==<br />
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These bitcoin mines reduced a net total of 29,300 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent to taking 6,800 gasoline-powered vehicles off the road for a full year.<br />
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== Disposed Tires ==<br />
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Bitcoin miners are solving the tire disposal environmental disaster by turning those tires into energy.<br />
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== Coal Mine Tailings ==<br />
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Mountains of waste coal pollute the Pennsylvania countryside. Bitcoin miners are transforming this environmental disaster into energy.<br />
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== Landfill Emissions ==<br />
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Bitcoin mobile mining installed on landfills are mitigating methane pollution from landfill emissions.<br />
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== Heating Greenhouses ==<br />
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Bitcoin mining heating greenhouses in the Netherlands, turning excess energy into a tool for growing flowers.</br><br />
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== Mining Bitcoin with Discarded Vegetable Oil ==<br />
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== Volcano Mining ==<br />
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== Making Personal Solar Viable ==<br />
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== Recycling Heat ==<br />
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* [https://www.tylerstevens.me/blog/a-heatpunks-manifesto/ A Heatpunk's Manifesto] / [https://open.spotify.com/episode/12LRQptNsYwun0ForggGlI Audio version] <br />
* Podcast: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOAb1XZaVfQ Bitcoin Incentivizes Better Environment] / [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eWxNAztGrgVXUeteSmpYg Audio version]<br />
* [https://www.superheat.xyz/ Monetizing wasted energy with your water heater]<br />
* Podcast: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGiPjlxrnE Bitcoin Mining Improving Economics of Idaho Town]<br />
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== Benefits of Bitcoin Mining ==<br />
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* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1923014527651615182 20 peer reviewed articles showing Bitcoin has significant environmental benefits]<br />
* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1921321493423698281 14 mainstream news outlets are now covering Bitcoin's environmental benefits]<br />
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== Brainstorming about Bitcoin's Future Benefit to the Environment ==<br />
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This podcast episode envisions a bitcoin mining robot that cleans the forest floor to prevent devastating wildfires. The idea could have merit due to Bitcoin economics. (1hr 13min audio)<br />
* [https://www.audible.com/podcast/Read_878-Forest-Walker-Bitcoin-mining-and-Forest-Management/B0F5WRS36G Audible]<br />
* [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/read-878-forest-walker-bitcoin-mining-and-forest/id1359544516?i=1000704435592 Apple Podcast]<br />
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== What Bitcoin Mining Actually Does ==<br />
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[https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1928617026588741967 View on X]<br />
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* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2007095059963949217 Compilation of research and news stories reflecting positively on Bitcoin mining]<br />
* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2007466463062270193 Common Bitcoin Energy Misconceptions]<br />
* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2009356791914623382 Why Bitcoin Mining Could be the Century's Most Important Sustainable Innovation]<br />
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== Bitcoin as Global Peg ==<br />
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== Oil & Natural Gas Priced in Bitcoin ==<br />
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== Valuation Reset Near ==<br />
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== $1 Million Bitcoin = World Reserve Currency ==<br />
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[https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1935276685156368765 '''Deeply-researched and well-referenced article'''] seriously forecasting the possibility of conversion to Bitcoin as the World Reserve Currency at the point when 1 SAT* = 1 US cent. <br />
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== Bitcoin as Global Peg ==<br />
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== Oil & Natural Gas Priced in Bitcoin ==<br />
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== World Reserve Status Costs US ==<br />
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== Valuation Reset Near ==<br />
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== $1 Million Bitcoin = World Reserve Currency ==<br />
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[https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1935276685156368765 '''Deeply-researched and well-referenced article'''] seriously forecasting the possibility of conversion to Bitcoin as the World Reserve Currency at the point when 1 SAT* = 1 US cent. <br />
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The natural environment of member of the family is within the family, which was the first institution of God. The industrial revolution removed the Fathers from the family much of the day. The educational revolution of government schools removed the children. The social revolution of government honoring the aged parents rather than their children and family removed the elderly. The financial revolution removed non-interest bearing money which forced the mothers from the home into the workplace. All together with the sexual revolution which perverted the natural use of our bodies to produce the family, society itself is only a generation away from self-destruction since society has always been born within the family.<br />
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* [https://tomwoods.com/ep-2108-covid-and-long-term-care-facilities-an-inside-look/ Tom Woods interviews Hal Cranmer: COVID and Long-Term Care Facilities: An Inside Look]<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzznG3P5ck Second Tom Woods interview with Hal Cranmer, long-term care facilities owner describing how Carnivore diet helps with Alzheimer's and the demand for this type of care]<br />
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* 2020-01-07 [https://nonperele.com/the-new-senior-housing-from-dementia-villages-to-margaritavilles/ The new senior housing, from “dementia villages” to Margaritavilles]<br />
* 2019-10-30 [https://www.studyfinds.org/if-you-rest-you-rust-study-finds-early-retirement-may-speed-up-cognitive-decline/ If You Rest, You Rust? Study Finds Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline]<br />
* 2019-09-30 [https://www.studyfinds.org/lonely-lives-alarming-number-of-seniors-go-entire-week-without-talking-to-anyone/ Lonely Lives: Alarming Number Of Seniors Go Entire Week Without Talking To Anyone]<br />
* 2019-07-19 [https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/carpenter-with-no-children-sends-33-strangers-to-college-after-amassing-3-million-in-savings-200044849.html Carpenter with no children sends 33 strangers to college after amassing $3 million in savings]<br />
* 2019-06-05 [https://www.wthr.com/article/iowa-school-giving-students-pe-credits-helping-elderly-people-disabilities-do-yard-work Iowa school giving students PE credits for helping elderly, people with disabilities do yard work]<br />
* 2018-11-05 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-05/senior-citizens-are-replacing-teenagers-at-fast-food-joints Senior Citizens Are Replacing Teenagers as Fast-Food Workers]<br />
* 2018-10-17 [https://theheartysoul.com/co-housing-seniors/ Goodbye Nursing Homes! The New Trend Is CoHousing With Friends]<br />
* 2018-08-24 [http://www.songhanhphuc.org/raising-our-kids-near-their-grandparents-is-the-greatest-gift-we-could-ever-give-them/ Raising our kids near their grandparents is the greatest gift we could ever give them]<br />
* 2018-08-28 [https://www.fastcompany.com/90227821/the-papa-app-lets-seniors-book-grandkids-on-demand This app lets seniors book “grandkids on demand”]<br />
* 2018-07-17 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-18/japan-s-lonely-death-industry Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind]<br />
* 2018-06-01 [https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/this-is-the-age-of-grandparents/561527/ The Age of Grandparents Is Made of Many Tragedies]<br />
* 2018-03-16 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-16/japan-s-prisons-are-a-haven-for-elderly-women Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women]<br />
* 2017-12-09 [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-09/heres-how-much-retirees-are-spending-support-their-adult-kids Here's How Much Retirees Are Spending To Support Their Adult Kids]<br />
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The natural environment of member of the family is within the family, which was the first institution of God. The industrial revolution removed the Fathers from the family much of the day. The educational revolution of government schools removed the children. The social revolution of government honoring the aged parents rather than their children and family removed the elderly. The financial revolution removed non-interest bearing money which forced the mothers from the home into the workplace. All together with the sexual revolution which perverted the natural use of our bodies to produce the family, society itself is only a generation away from self-destruction since society has always been born within the family.<br />
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* 2020-01-07 [https://nonperele.com/the-new-senior-housing-from-dementia-villages-to-margaritavilles/ The new senior housing, from “dementia villages” to Margaritavilles]<br />
* 2019-10-30 [https://www.studyfinds.org/if-you-rest-you-rust-study-finds-early-retirement-may-speed-up-cognitive-decline/ If You Rest, You Rust? Study Finds Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline]<br />
* 2019-09-30 [https://www.studyfinds.org/lonely-lives-alarming-number-of-seniors-go-entire-week-without-talking-to-anyone/ Lonely Lives: Alarming Number Of Seniors Go Entire Week Without Talking To Anyone]<br />
* 2019-07-19 [https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/carpenter-with-no-children-sends-33-strangers-to-college-after-amassing-3-million-in-savings-200044849.html Carpenter with no children sends 33 strangers to college after amassing $3 million in savings]<br />
* 2019-06-05 [https://www.wthr.com/article/iowa-school-giving-students-pe-credits-helping-elderly-people-disabilities-do-yard-work Iowa school giving students PE credits for helping elderly, people with disabilities do yard work]<br />
* 2018-11-05 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-05/senior-citizens-are-replacing-teenagers-at-fast-food-joints Senior Citizens Are Replacing Teenagers as Fast-Food Workers]<br />
* 2018-10-17 [https://theheartysoul.com/co-housing-seniors/ Goodbye Nursing Homes! The New Trend Is CoHousing With Friends]<br />
* 2018-08-24 [http://www.songhanhphuc.org/raising-our-kids-near-their-grandparents-is-the-greatest-gift-we-could-ever-give-them/ Raising our kids near their grandparents is the greatest gift we could ever give them]<br />
* 2018-08-28 [https://www.fastcompany.com/90227821/the-papa-app-lets-seniors-book-grandkids-on-demand This app lets seniors book “grandkids on demand”]<br />
* 2018-07-17 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-18/japan-s-lonely-death-industry Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind]<br />
* 2018-06-01 [https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/this-is-the-age-of-grandparents/561527/ The Age of Grandparents Is Made of Many Tragedies]<br />
* 2018-03-16 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-16/japan-s-prisons-are-a-haven-for-elderly-women Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women]<br />
* 2017-12-09 [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-09/heres-how-much-retirees-are-spending-support-their-adult-kids Here's How Much Retirees Are Spending To Support Their Adult Kids]<br />
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Free enterprise v Big Government, bleeding-heart scams that pretend to be charitable while spending other people's money. Bitcoin mining is enabling a 10-20x faster buildout of Ethiopia's electrical grid than all the previous efforts by 20 global institutions and development banks, including the UN, World Bank, IRENA, African Development Bank, and Rockefeller Foundation.</br><br />
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== Flare Gas ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This 60 Minutes news report explains how a bitcoin mining company is helping the environment by reducing methane emissions across Wyoming.<a href="https://t.co/wqUF1Qt1hR">pic.twitter.com/wqUF1Qt1hR</a></p>&mdash; Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/2005976240856129778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Everyone of these dots is flaring gas into the atmosphere and could be mining Bitcoin instead of wasting the gas and poluting the air. <a href="https://t.co/5gLOg2QDfo">pic.twitter.com/5gLOg2QDfo</a></p>&mdash; Craig On Bitcoin ⚡ ⛏️ ₿ (@craigonbitcoin) <a href="https://twitter.com/craigonbitcoin/status/1912639530215350595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last year, oil companies flared enough gas to power bitcoin 10x over.<br><br>The great thing is that bitcoin miners can show up anywhere with a generator and use that stranded gas, turning it from a cost into a revenue generator for oil companies.<br><br>Bitcoin mining isn&#39;t &quot;wasteful&quot;, it&#39;s… <a href="https://t.co/Yl44pKOszE">pic.twitter.com/Yl44pKOszE</a></p>&mdash; Javier Hermosa (@JavierHermosa21) <a href="https://twitter.com/JavierHermosa21/status/2005664826627137899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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These bitcoin mines reduced a net total of 29,300 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent to taking 6,800 gasoline-powered vehicles off the road for a full year.<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">By the end of February, these bitcoin mines reduced a net total of 29,300 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent to taking 6,800 gasoline-powered vehicles off the road for a full year. <a href="https://twitter.com/MARAHoldings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MARAHoldings</a> is using bitcoin to generate higher profits and lower emissions.<a href="https://t.co/yIbUrObZpM">pic.twitter.com/yIbUrObZpM</a></p>&mdash; Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1917746255083487272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Disposed Tires ==<br />
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Bitcoin miners are solving the tire disposal environmental disaster by turning those tires into energy.<br />
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== Coal Mine Tailings ==<br />
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Mountains of waste coal pollute the Pennsylvania countryside. Bitcoin miners are transforming this environmental disaster into energy.<br />
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== Landfill Emissions ==<br />
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Bitcoin mobile mining installed on landfills are mitigating methane pollution from landfill emissions.<br />
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== Heating Greenhouses ==<br />
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Bitcoin mining heating greenhouses in the Netherlands, turning excess energy into a tool for growing flowers.</br><br />
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== Mining Bitcoin with Discarded Vegetable Oil ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your periodic reminder that there are guerrilla <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bitcoin</a> miners out there running discarded vegetable oil into a diesel engine to generate their own sovereign + economic power.<br><br>These builders will inherit the earth 💯 <br><br> <a href="https://t.co/73dxPgCDIa">pic.twitter.com/73dxPgCDIa</a></p>&mdash; 🏔Adam O🏔 (@denverbitcoin) <a href="https://twitter.com/denverbitcoin/status/1899579079491523061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Volcano Mining ==<br />
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While climate summits have failed to produce long lasting results and CO₂ keeps rising, Bitcoin mining creates a real free market incentive to unlock clean, green energy. (2-minute video)<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">While climate summits have failed to produce long lasting results and CO₂ keeps rising, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> mining creates a real free market incentive to unlock clean, green energy. ⚡<br><br>It&#39;s simple, miners go where the power is, even in remote unpopulated areas like volcanoes. 🌍🌋 <a href="https://t.co/AEsDwdU4jL">pic.twitter.com/AEsDwdU4jL</a></p>&mdash; JAN3 (@JAN3com) <a href="https://twitter.com/JAN3com/status/1910682870256988277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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Iceland is the largest Bitcoin producer per capita.<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Iceland, Bitcoin mining facilities are powered by geothermal energy drawn from deep within the Earth, along with hydroelectric power. These mines use surplus renewable electricity, acting as a flexible load that helps balance the national energy grid.<br><br> <a href="https://t.co/JzELHVkBDD">pic.twitter.com/JzELHVkBDD</a></p>&mdash; Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/2002020224208609415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Making Personal Solar Viable ==<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This new open-source software lets your bitcoin mining machines automatically use the extra energy from your solar panels. It adjusts in seconds, from about 1–3 kW per miner, so excess electricity can be converted into bitcoin instead of sold back to the grid cheaply. <a href="https://t.co/JORRCrhd3g">pic.twitter.com/JORRCrhd3g</a></p>&mdash; Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) <a href="https://x.com/DocumentingBTC/status/2075274327453319257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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== Recycling Heat ==<br />
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50% of the world's energy is used for heating. It just so happens that heat is a side benefit of mining bitcoin. (4-minute video)<br />
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Mining for Beef Jerky (1-minute video)</br><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This guy mines Bitcoin to make Beef 🥩 <br><br>Seriously! <a href="https://t.co/oQ7FtCByMq">pic.twitter.com/oQ7FtCByMq</a></p>&mdash; Joe Nakamoto ⚡️ (@JoeNakamoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNakamoto/status/2019137581129118202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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Recycled heat from Bitcoin mining rigs used to heat entire towns (13-minute video)</br><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Bitcoin wastes energy!&quot;<br><br>In Finland, Bitcoin mining is actually replacing oil and gas heating.<br><br>I investigated these secretive projects... and I was amazed. <br><br>Not only do miners warm these snowy towns but they also balance the energy grid 🤯 <br><br>Watch and see for yourself: <a href="https://t.co/NwvlJs3Tic">pic.twitter.com/NwvlJs3Tic</a></p>&mdash; Joe Nakamoto ⚡️ (@JoeNakamoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNakamoto/status/2023476374372237488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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Heating a Home with a Bitcoin Miner (3-minute video)<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Many of you asked about the numbers👇<br><br>Heat pump costs $12,500 and takes 24 years to pay back. Adam’s miner setup cost $3,000 and earns him fresh bitcoin every day.<br><br>Detailed blog post with schematics and calculations coming next week🤝 <a href="https://t.co/6kASEqUBTg">pic.twitter.com/6kASEqUBTg</a></p>&mdash; Kristian Csepcsar (@KristianCsep) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristianCsep/status/2030318726147428791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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* [https://www.tylerstevens.me/blog/a-heatpunks-manifesto/ A Heatpunk's Manifesto] / [https://open.spotify.com/episode/12LRQptNsYwun0ForggGlI Audio version] <br />
* Podcast: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOAb1XZaVfQ Bitcoin Incentivizes Better Environment] / [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eWxNAztGrgVXUeteSmpYg Audio version]<br />
* [https://www.superheat.xyz/ Monetizing wasted energy with your water heater]<br />
* Podcast: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGiPjlxrnE Bitcoin Mining Improving Economics of Idaho Town]<br />
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== Benefits of Bitcoin Mining ==<br />
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PR video for Bitcoin mining giant, BitDeer, takes a quick tour across three continents to tell the stories of individuals and communities that are better off due to Bitcoin mining in their backyards. (9-minutes)</br><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As <a href="https://twitter.com/Excellion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Excellion</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CitizenX</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> mining allows energy-rich countries to export their power globally, 24/7, without the need for physical pipelines or ships.<br><br>Bhutan is leading the way as one of the world&#39;s largest sovereign holders. 🇧🇹<br><br>Who&#39;ll be next to pull the trigger? <a href="https://t.co/SwpGMXrzfv">pic.twitter.com/SwpGMXrzfv</a></p>&mdash; JAN3 (@JAN3com) <a href="https://twitter.com/JAN3com/status/2026319825115725852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1923014527651615182 20 peer reviewed articles showing Bitcoin has significant environmental benefits]<br />
* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1921321493423698281 14 mainstream news outlets are now covering Bitcoin's environmental benefits]<br />
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== Brainstorming about Bitcoin's Future Benefit to the Environment ==<br />
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This podcast episode envisions a bitcoin mining robot that cleans the forest floor to prevent devastating wildfires. The idea could have merit due to Bitcoin economics. (1hr 13min audio)<br />
* [https://www.audible.com/podcast/Read_878-Forest-Walker-Bitcoin-mining-and-Forest-Management/B0F5WRS36G Audible]<br />
* [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/read-878-forest-walker-bitcoin-mining-and-forest/id1359544516?i=1000704435592 Apple Podcast]<br />
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== What Bitcoin Mining Actually Does ==<br />
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3-minute response to anyone who says to you "Bitcoin is bad for the environment."<br />
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One of the best and most concise explanations of Bitcoin mining — IT'S A DYNAMIC AND GROWING FORCEFIELD! (8-minute video)<br />
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[https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1928617026588741967 View on X]<br />
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== Bitcoin Incentivizes Less Waste ==<br />
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Immense environmental benefit of shifting away from a consumerist society (4-minute video)<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New paper shows renewable operations using Bitcoin mining are both more profitable and lower-emission than renewable operations where Bitcoin mining is absent<br><br>The authors found that not only did Bitcoin mining have the potential to be a driver for large-scale renewable… <a href="https://t.co/xZ45M9h7gp">pic.twitter.com/xZ45M9h7gp</a></p>&mdash; Daniel Batten (@DSBatten) <a href="https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2061060424670298563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2007095059963949217 Compilation of research and news stories reflecting positively on Bitcoin mining]<br />
* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2007466463062270193 Common Bitcoin Energy Misconceptions]<br />
* [https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2009356791914623382 Why Bitcoin Mining Could be the Century's Most Important Sustainable Innovation]<br />
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According to the [https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/ LLNL Energy Chart], 61% of distributed energy is rejected. Bitcoin mining will begin eating a significant chunk of that. <br />
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