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The Bitcoin Genie Isn't Going Back in the Bottle

The Breakdown

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The Rise of Bitcoin

The rise of Bitcoin made our present monetary system look patently absurd. The visceral hatred elites feel about Bitcoin? Perfectly justified. How else would you react to an upstart aimed at usurping your sacred monetary privilege? Such as the potency of Bitcoin that it compels the high priests of US imperialism to reveal the unwritten rules about the role the dollar plays in power projection abroad. An awful lot of our international power comes from the fact that the dollar is the standard unit of international finance and it is the announced purpose of cryptocurrency to take that power away from us.

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