The HODLer Middle Finger Manifesto

in bitcoin •  7 years ago 

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We're not making a bet on Bitcoin being 10% higher a week from now. We're making a bet on blockchain and decentralization changing the world.

We're making a bet we'll move away from energy-wasting proof of work; that we're going to utilize the world's idle computing power for the good of humankind.

We're making a bet that we're spreading financial instruments to African villages a hundred miles from the nearest bank. We're betting on smarter self-driving cars for our children, on the ownership of our digital lives, on new medical discoveries, on an internet that's bending and morphing into something we don't completely understand.

We're betting on people -- people whose names we don't know, and the ones we do -- the Vitalik Buterins, with their broomstick arms and their visions of a world very different from the one we're breathing in right now.

But maybe you're feeling fearful? Go ahead. Hit the sell button and cash in for some fiat paper. Wait three days until those dollars end up in your money market account where you'll earn 1.4% ... that's close but not quite enough to keep up with inflation.

We will not sell.

We're making a bet that blockchain is bigger than big business, bigger than banks, and the government and their ability to put rules in leather-bound books.

It comes down to this: who's truly going to change the world? White-haired bankers? Politicians? Or the misfits and the rebels with their middle fingers in the air?

We walk a path with a destination we cannot see. The future's out there, and we will walk ahead of our brothers and sisters to find it. Then, we'll turn around and pull them forward, too.

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Preach. The future is here. And people like us are are going to make sure it happens.

HODL and support :)

Poetry. that is all i have to say...

Yep, betting on long-term potential. Great.

I am definitely in this for the long haul. Its like a black hole that pulled me in and there is no looking back.

Just the title alone compelled me to read your post! :)

Blockchain and decentralization are changing the world, and the current powers in place don't like it one bit. It's better to keep the "herd" in place and as you say "the white haired politicians and bankers" want to keep shepherding and fleecing the flock.

Short, sweet, and to the point!!

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