A Purchase Power Standard
Wake up, Neo. It's time. Only the penitent men shall pass.
A GOLD STANDARD
Imagine all the governments of the world; the United States along with Russia, Germany, China, Iran, Brazil, India, Japan, Canada, the UK, France, Italy, Mexico, North and South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Nigeria, and all the rest, all the nations of the world, all 200 plus nations, joined together for a global treaty summit to sign into force a new global monetary law.
A law which would remain in effect permanently, forever into perpetuity, to enforce a global treaty — The Gold Standard Treaty.
Imagine this Treaty included three simple and straight forward articles that every single one of the nations of Earth were bound to uphold.
Imagine if you will, three simple and straight forward articles set in place to solidify golds function as thee global monetary standard; as the global medium to store value for purchase power retention, the global medium to exchange value for purchase power trade, and the global medium for the standardization of global purchase power measurement.
Imagine governments of the world united around a monetary standard, united around the bedrock of economic calculation and function. Indeed, the very bedrock of civilization itself.
Within our imagined global Gold Standard Treaty we can envisage three universally accepted and agreed upon treaty articles that would read something like the following;
All The Governments of the States of Earth, desiring to conclude a Convention for the establishment of a more perfected monetary system for the prosperity of all of humanity, and for all of time, have agreed as follows:
Article 1. Purchase Power Retention
a. Anyone who limits anyone else’s ability to any form of custodianship of their gold, including self custody, or
b. Anyone that mines or creates additional gold supplies, or
c. Anyone that steals gold, shall be subject to either public execution or a lifetime of indentured servitude to those harmed by the perpetrator, as so decided by the public of the perpetrators local residence.Article 2. Purchase Power Exchange
a. Anyone who limits anyone else’s ability in the voluntarily exchange of their gold, or
b. Anyone that sells or transacts in fake gold, shall be subject to either public execution or a lifetime of indentured servitude to those harmed by the perpetrator, as so decided by the public of the perpetrators local residence.Article 3. Purchase Power Measurement
a. Anyone who inhibits anyone else’s ability to measure their purchasing power with gold as their numerator and as their denominator, shall be subject to either public execution or a lifetime of indentured servitude to those harmed by the perpetrator, as so decided by the public of the perpetrators local residence.
WHY ARE YOU HERE
Is it not this question that drives us?
Is it not this question that brought you here, my brothers and sisters!
You know the question, just as I do.
What to heavens is this Matrix they have us trapped within?
Look around you. It permeates the entire world around you.
Those that control you. Those that govern you. Those that bind you.
Why will these governing forces not unite around a global monetary standard for the good of everyone?
It is in fact of no concern to us. Their motives are now of little importance to us.
What matters now, my brothers and sisters, is that the solution is here. It has now presented itself. The solution is here and it is now the only thing that matters.
We have been walking through the fog of war for many many centuries.
In the beginning there was force, financed by gold and enforced by arms. A world of brutality and conquest.
And then there was the slight of hand, a drive of deception, of simulacra and simulation — the Matrix wherein we find ourselves today. Coiled around us tightly, we live in complacent despair. An invisible prison for our minds, financed with paper and enforced by lies. A world of deception and fear.
But what comes next, my brothers and sisters, is the end of the Matrix, and the beginning of our next chapter, driven by voluntary exchange, financed with bitcoin and enforced by truth. A world of hope and achievement.
We need not be concerned with the nations of the world lacking concern for us, their tax farmed and inflation farmed cattle.
MALICE OR IGNORANCE, IT MATTERS NOT
If the states of the world were really interested in the best outcomes of their citizens, they would most certainly be working towards perfecting the most important tool of humanity, they would indeed be interested in perfecting a global monetary standard.
If our governments were interested in equality of reward for just and deserved accomplishment, fruiting forth incentive for still further achievements, evermore onwards and upwards, they would most certainly be interested in perfecting the functions of money, perfecting its operation as a medium for value storage, value transfer, and for value calculation.
Indeed, if the nations of the world really cared about the well being of their domestic affairs and their foreign affairs alike, they would by necessity be hyper focused on enabling such a global summit, to see forthwith the execution of such a monetary treaty.
Alas, their actions tell of their true intent, the machinations of the democratic machine. A thin veil of “to serve and protect” masks the cold realities, to maintain the rent seeking, to maintain the farce of their intellectual property rights, and their monopolies, their privileges, and their walled gardens. For your safety, you stupid peasants.
And yet, just what if.
Put aside all notions of malice and ill intent.
Just what if they did see the light.
What then!
Suppose in fact tomorrow morning we awoke to our leaders with a new bold and courageous vision of the future, with the realization and the understanding of the importance of mediums that offered honest weights and measures for our daily economic calculations, and mediums for voluntary trade, and voluntary custodianship, what indeed would happen then my brothers and sisters!
Imagine there was no longer the risk of the government, or anyone else for that matter, having the ability to confiscate or steal your gold, but rather a government in full support of protecting your stores of wealth.
Could such a thing even be possible?
Imagine a world where the supply of gold stopped increasing. Imagine a world where you could trust that the gold you purchased was guaranteed to be pure gold, where gold had an absolute certainty to its supply and purity. A certainty enforced by the full weight and power of the worlds standing armies!
Imagine a world where anyone, anywhere, could freely sell their gold for oil, or uranium, for wheat, or whiskey, or guns, for ribeye steaks, or low skilled or high skilled labor, among any corners of the Earth, not with fear of sanctions or restraints by any foreign or domestic governments, but with protections from those very such governments!
What would happen to the price of gold in our imaginary world?
Equally importantly, what would happen to our financial systems, to the investment bankers, and the hedge funds, to the venture capitalists, and to the central banks, and to the men and women that redirected their skill and vitality to other industries?
And lastly, but most certainly not least of all, what would happen to civil life, to civil engineering, to civil governance, to local and global commerce, to local and global prosperity?
I can tell you what would happen.
But first, you need to wake up, Neo…
The Matrix has you...
Follow the white rabbit.
Knock, knock, Neo. It is time to study Bitcoin…
BEHOLD, THERE IS A TREATY
We need not imagine of such a glorious undertaking of the nations of the world, joining together for the good of all humanity.
We need not look towards our authorities like the obedient cattle we once were, lost in the deceptive Matrix.
Right now, today, there is a treaty in force. Now 15 years old. A Purchase Power Treaty.
And how pray tell could such a thing even be possible?
Imagine an asset just as gold. Yet without the need to enforce the limits of supply creation by a nations standing armies or to limit the transaction of fake gold through threat of violence, but through the development of energy abundance, and prosperity abundance, with voluntary, and individually sovereign, trade and computational certainty.
Imagine an asset with all the attributes of our Gold Standard Treaty, but not enforced with the tools of war, and not administered by the fallibility of the politician, but enforced through technological advancements in energy and computation production, and administered through infallible binary computer code.
Dear brothers and sisters, what we have today, is something much more powerful than a nation state enforced gold treaty.
Imagine a money that requires no navy or air force to be shipped around the world in a weeks time, but can travel at the speed of light around the world in less than seconds at the flick of a button by anyone, anywhere on the planet.
Today, right now, there are sovereign individuals, in every country of the world, in the United States and Russia, in Germany, China, Iran, Brazil, India, Japan, Canada, the UK, France, Italy, Mexico, North and South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Nigeria, and all the rest, in all the nations of the world, all 200 plus nations, men and women, our brothers and sisters, dear reader, have joined together in a global treaty signed into force into perpetuity. That bitcoin will forever have a fixed supply, that no fake bitcoin shall pass through our verifications, that anyone anywhere shall be able to pass a valid transaction through our verification nodes, that anyone anywhere can forever secure any amount of value without the possibility of confiscation so long as they follow the rules established and governed by the hundreds of thousands of globally aligned sovereign individuals.
The new global Gold Monetary Standard is here, and those that have adopted it, refer to it as Bitcoin: a peer to peer electronic cash.
A system that incentivizes abundance through scarcity, that incentivizes trust through sovereignty. A system that will run forever more, so long as humanity has the will to thrive, and last I checked, I don’t know about you, but I damn sure am going to continue to thrive and strive, for the sake of my ancestors, and myself, and my family, and my descendants, to build the world that I want, to be a part of it, to have my actions woven into the eternal tapestry of human civilization, all that it has been, all that it is, and all that it will be.
If you have some troubles in the world that you are currently living within, Neo, it is because you are still asleep, trapped in the Matrix.
It is time to wake up, Neo. Time to exit into the future.
It is time to become the penitent man you were destined to be. To accept your past transgressions, your failures of self ownership, self accountability, and your responsibilities and duties to yourself, to your past, and your future. It is time to play your part, as the sovereign individual you were born to be, to become a node in the new Global Purchase Power Standard we call Bitcoin.
We are here.
We are many.
And we are eternal.
Join us.
Cheers.