The Best of Simply Unfiltered: Volume I
A curated Unfiltered starter pack. Welcome aboard.
VOLUME I
For all the new subs and for all you long time ride or dies, we’ve pulled together some of our favorites and your favorites from the last couple years. The following includes juicy excerpts and a link to the original articles, including:
You’re Entitled to . . . Poverty
The Hoarding Continues Until Morale Improves
From Peasant Consumers to Pleb Producers
The Bitcoin Tsunami Is Here
The good ones are even better when read a second time through.
We always aim to write timeless content that will both stand as a record for where we came from and where we think we’re going, as well as offer a few nuggets of wisdom and first principles thinking when we can.
Please feel free to share this Volume I with loved ones and potential new bitcoiners that might be able to relate to our Unfiltered perspectives. We think these articles really add meat to the dialogue we’re all trying to push out into the mainstream conscience, Bitcoin is the peaceful revolution against government money that, although may be well intended, steals from us.
Cheers!
You’re Entitled to . . . Poverty
One of our first articles, from August, 2022.
This piece set the tone for what we are trying to achieve here with Unfiltered, to speak clear and straight forward, without mincing words or pulling punches. We’re harsh, but honest, crass, but sincere.
One of the many memorable excerpts from this gem…
We are the sorry suckers trying to wake up your brain dead entitled ass out of the zombified lifestyle you’ve grown accustomed to and fight for. Like an addict itching for that next stimmy. Blissfully trapped in the matrix. Govern me harder daddy.
Yeah, your entitled alright, entitled to poverty. Enjoy your heaping cup of absolute misery. I mean let’s be honest, the US president recently signed a bill into law, with the title, Inflation Reduction Act, whereby the US Government will be spending money to do what exactly?
Oh that’s right, the increased spending is designed to magically REDUCE prices. Now, I’ve never proclaimed to be a rocket scientist, but last time I checked, if there is more money buying the same amount of goods and services, that only INCREASES prices.
If it’s not obvious that our friendly overlords are complete liars, or worse, have no understanding of why prices rise, then I just got one thing to say to you, amigo, have fun staying poor. Because obviously you too are completely brain washed by the dazzling headlines and propaganda the nightly news pumps into your empty non critical thinking brain on a daily basis.
The Hoarding Continues Until Morale Improves
In the depths of the 2022 bear market, the week bitcoin put in a low for the cycle, we published this monster, helping to strengthen our resolve, that we are not going anywhere, that we’ve only just begun.
Not only is this piece ultra hyper motivating, it also sprinkles in the realities of what money is, as a great organizing force for the good of humanity, and the realities of what bitcoin is, an unstoppable force who’s time has indeed come.
This piece showcases our deep desire to see through to the success of bitcoin, no matter what obstacles may arise…
We are the intransigent minority with one guiding mission, one north star, one certainty in this life, to see that their ability to bind people to their yoke is forever annihilated.
We are here to see that their memory is left only in our history books as a warning to future generations, about how they created us and how we filled the world with liberty, freedom, and justice for all of mankind, forever.
In the crucible of the casino gulag, a new creature was born, one with an insatiable undying need to burn the gulag to the ground forever.
I am that creature. And there are many more like me. We work in your restaurants and serve you your food, we work in your gas stations and pump your gas, we work in your hotels and make your beds, we work in your airlines and fly you around, we work in your offices and prepare your tax returns, we work in your sports arenas and play your sports, we work in your schools and teach your children, we work in your hospitals and perform your heart surgeries, we work in your factories and build your phones.
We are here. We are there. We are everywhere. We earn our slave money, and we siphon it into the hardest, fairest, most just, and most equitable monetary network that mankind will ever build.
We don’t do it for fame, we don’t do it for glory, we do it to obliterate the casino gulag that you have us trapped inside. Every slave token we push into the network is a brick in your gulag that we pulverize into dust. And we will not stop until every brick is crushed into oblivion. You have already lost, you just don’t know it yet.
We will never stop buying and earning the bitcoin. We will never stop holding the bitcoin. You’ve created a force that you have zero control over. You have built your undoing and there is no force in the universe that can stop this process that has been set in motion.
The Hoarding Continues Until Morale Improves
From Peasant Consumers to Pleb Producers
On occasion we indulge in waxing poetic, not for no reason, but in an attempt to reframe mainstream talking points, to shift the Overton window, to envision the future we want to will into existence. Memes are powerful, how we think drives how reality unfolds around us.
This article helps to underline human incentives, human action, and human will. A rally cry for the bright orange future we are in the process of building.
Join us!
Before money — we were slaves of our environments and mother nature our master.
With imperfect money, an ever increasing supply of third party controlled gold and fiat — we unshackled ourselves from the chains of our perceived master. We rose to lofty new heights, believing ourselves the new master of our environment, usurping mother natures control over us with our superior intellect. Through our hubris and fatal conceit, we believed ourselves to be more powerful than the moon, the sun, and the stars. We came untethered from the mother that raised us, from the gravitational reality that built our backbones.
With perfected money, a permanently fixed supply of user controlled and operated bitcoin — we are taking back ownership and control of our soles and finding ourselves firmly planted on mother terra. With clear eyes, open hearts, and sharp minds, we are discovering we were never slaves to a master in the first place, but instead a small collaborative piece of a brilliant mosaic of life, where we now become the masters of ourselves. Where we know thyself, aiming not to deathly compete with the environment around us but instead to ingeniously collaborate with it, lifting all human consciousness to new sustainable long lasting heights to serve as the new baseline for an unfathomable distant future of wonder and prosperity.
From Peasant Consumers To Pleb Producers
The Bitcoin Tsunami Is Here
In this far ranging piece we explored the depths and breadth of where bitcoin sits in a multi century long path of research and development culminating into the peer to peer electronic money we call Bitcoin.
Most people unaware of the history of technology think Bitcoin came out of the blue, but it was in fact the crowning jewel in a long fought process of building a global permissionless digital cash.
Put on a cup of coffee this Sunday morning and get ready for a long and winding history of where bitcoin came from.
In the beginning there were fire and smoke signals to pass communications across great distances. For tens of thousands of years this messaging system suited humanity well enough.
In ancient China, soldiers along the Great Wall sent smoke signals from beacon towers to warn one another of enemy invasion. Colors of smoke communicated the size of the invasion, and by placing beacon towers at regular intervals with a soldier in each tower, messages could be transmitted quickly over the entire 7,300 kilometer length of the wall.
Similarly, in ancient Sri Lanka, soldiers stationed on mountain peaks would alert each other of impending enemy attacks from English, Dutch and Portuguese colonialists by signaling from peak to peak with fire and smoke. In this way they were able to transmit messages to the Kingdom within a few short hours over tremendous distances what would otherwise take weeks by horseback.
And even to this day the College of Cardinals uses smoke signals to indicate the selection of a new Pope during a papal conclave. Eligible cardinals conduct a secret ballot until someone receives a vote of two-thirds plus one. The ballots are burned after each vote. Black smoke indicates a failed ballot, while white smoke indicates a new Pope has been selected that can be communicated immediately to anyone watching from the square. Moreover, colored smoke grenades are commonly used by present day military forces to pinpoint real-time positions, especially during calls for artillery or air support.
