Fuck You Money

Some think “fuck you money” means your behavior barely impacts your ability to spend. Many picture a rich dude flying around on his jet, doing whatever he wants. Whether the number in a bank account is large or small, a major pitfall lingers. Central powers have the ability to hinder your financial expression. The money in your bank is not really yours.

We learned from those donating to the Canadian Truckers having their bank accounts frozen because they supported something out of line with the current Canadian administration.  Additionally, whatever you think of Kanye West, JP Morgan terminated their banking relationship with Kanye because he said things that rubbed people the wrong way. All these things happened overnight with no warning.

Using a bank comes with a set of rules and rulers. Similarly, using the US Dollar comes with its own set of rules.  Rules that you have no say over. Rules that are not built in your favor.

Enforce Your Own Rules

When it comes to Bitcoin, there are two value props which (in my opinion) supersede the rest.

1) Hard-cap of 21 million

2) Censorship resistant

The hard-cap is important so your value doesn’t get debased. It makes saving possible.

Censorship resistance is the “fuck you money” feature of Bitcoin. You are free to transact with anyone around the world and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.  

Fuck you money means acting without constraints established by a central authority.  That means:

• Buying whatever products you want

• Sending money to anyone, anywhere

• Donating to any cause you like

The free market determines value. Like when WikiLeaks was blocked from transacting through traditional banking methods. Bitcoin was their only choice and it paid off handsomely. At some point you’ll realize Bitcoin doesn’t need you, you need Bitcoin.

"We are defending our privacy with cryptography, ... and with electronic money. Cypherpunks write code ... We don't much care if you don't approve of the software. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down" -Erik Hughes, 1993.

Left Bell Curve Bitcoiners

My favorite feature that sprung from “fuck you money” are the Left-Bellcurve-Bitcoiners. The highly regarded.

Bitcoin enables you to be yourself. It provides the freedom to express yourself in a manner where you don’t have to take things so seriously. These are the people I gravitate towards

Once you’ve gone down the rabbit hole, you start to understand the cyclical nature of how things will play out.  That’s when you really start having fun with it.  Making memes, shitposting, calling out bullshit.  There’s a lot of ways to pass the time with other Left-Bellcurvers until an inevitable hyperbitcoinization.

Don’t be a midwit.

Who’s Gonna Stop Us

Fuck you money no longer applies to some rich dude in a jet. It scales to the sat level of anyone holding unconfiscatable, uncensorable value.

Politicians think writing words on a piece of paper gives them power over us. Those laws don’t apply in Bitcoin.  Try stopping a Bitcoin transaction. Tax the #12magicwords in our heads.  Make it illegal to remember the outcome of 256 coin flips.  When you figure that out, then we might change our behavior.

For now, we don’t care what you have to say. We are going to use Bitcoin and there is nothing you can do about it.

Stack hard plebs.