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Great article Pete. I think as you expand this further covering war is another angle. I had the most profound experience at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville. Way off in a corner of the conference hall they had the Veterans Booth/room. At the time I didn't read the syllabus but only had the fiesta pass and couldn't get into anything else. I thought it was a bunch of people who had been in Bitcoin a long time. It was actually military veterans for Bitcoin. I got to talk to a few and I asked them, "what is the interest of a veteran in Bitcoin". One gentleman's answer was, "I'm sick and tired of my government taking my brothers and sisters and grinding them up like dust, chewing them up and spitting them out for war."

It was the most profound thing and it defined the conference and solidified my belief in the problem is the government. Thank you for putting that moment into even stronger context with your article today.

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Yep, definitely a rabbit hole I am working down.

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