Bish Smeir

@CsTominaga @CsTominaga - hey. 👋 how can I contact you? Been messaging nchain etc for an audience but no luck.

The choice before the West is stark. Either the west will rediscover the principles of order, justice, and transcendence that first animated its greatness, or it will dissolve into the decadence of a civilisation that consumed itself with illusions of boundless autonomy. The world cannot indefinitely endure a culture that denies permanence, for permanence is the soil in which human dignity grows. To forget this is not to advance but to regress into barbarism, clothed in the garments of progress. And so the fate of nations will be determined not by their wealth or armies, but by their willingness to remember that freedom is not found in the annihilation of limits, but in their recognition.

The modern world presents itself as a paradox: a civilisation that has mastered the mechanics of material abundance, yet stands impoverished in spirit. Western nations, once animated by a conviction in ordered liberty and a belief in the permanence of moral law, now teeter on the edge of dissolution, victims of their own success. The pursuit of boundless freedom, detached from responsibility, has not elevated man, but hollowed him out, leaving a restless creature caught between comfort and despair. Institutions that once guarded the sacred continuity of culture have been reduced to mere bureaucratic shells, animated by fashionable slogans and animated only by the will to preserve themselves. The family, the foundation of any enduring order, is treated as an arbitrary arrangement, endlessly malleable to the impulses of desire. The school, which once served to transmit the wisdom of ages, now too often becomes a factory of ideology, instructing children not in what is enduring and true but in what is transient and politically expedient. Religion, which taught man his limits and directed him towards higher purpose, is cast aside in favour of secular cults of progress, each promising liberation but delivering sterility. A society that sneers at tradition has nothing left to defend it against its own appetites. Politics has descended into a theatre of spectacle. Leaders speak not of truth or duty but of preferences and polling data, as though governing were nothing more than managing consumer taste. The statesman has been replaced by the celebrity, the judge by the technocrat, the guardian of principle by the manipulator of narratives. To question the prevailing dogma is to invite public excommunication, not by reasoned refutation but by the mob’s demand for conformity. In this climate, power gravitates to those who can best manufacture outrage and disguise ambition as benevolence. The tragedy of the present moment is that the West, in its hunger to transcend all limits, forgets that limits are the condition of freedom. Without restraint, liberty devolves into licence, and licence becomes tyranny. The will, cut loose from objective order, does not ascend to new heights of creativity; it collapses into the slavery of impulse. A society that proclaims every desire equal cannot sustain justice, because justice demands distinctions. And a culture that elevates equality as its highest god finds itself compelled to level not only wealth but also excellence, beauty, and truth. Yet beneath the ruin lies a deeper sickness: the rejection of meaning itself. Man is told he is but a consumer, a replaceable unit in the economic machine, whose only purpose is to produce, purchase, and perish. To question this dogma is to court ridicule, for nothing terrifies the modern order more than the suggestion that human beings are more than their appetites. In the name of liberation, man is reduced to an object, and in the name of progress, he is shackled to the demands of conformity. But there remains a remnant who see through the glittering emptiness. They understand that civilisation is not sustained by material prosperity alone but by a moral imagination rooted in the eternal. They know that truth is not manufactured by consensus, and that culture is not an invention of the moment but an inheritance that binds the living with the dead and the yet unborn. To restore such an order is no small task. It demands courage to resist the intoxication of nihilism, discipline to uphold standards that the age derides, and vision to reassert the dignity of man as more than a servant to his own cravings.

@cz_binance @vowcurrency if you’re sincere.

I am not against memes, but meme coins are getting "a little" weird now. Let's build real applications using blockchain.

@CsTominaga I do think that the collective mind has “locked” onto Bitcoin and its value is in the collective minds “lock” to it. There is very little time for something else to gain the same space now.

@CsTominaga The real value of Bitcoin is as a "Source of reality." In a world of fake news, fake social profiles & fake everything, no one knows what is true any more. And this is going to get much, much worse as AI generated, & targeted, propaganda infiltrates our individual realities

@CsTominaga And this is coming from someone who actually thinks you CW are quite possibly the originator of all of this.

@CsTominaga So, however much BTC grows, however much of a store of energy, or reality, it becomes, it is destined (IMO) to end up hopping though a series of small implosions, each of which getting wilder and wilder, until in the end it collapses in a race to the bottom.

@CsTominaga Because of its limited supply, Bitcoin can only result in the rich getting richer, and the poor becoming poorer, as they are stripped of value by orchestrated market pumps and dumps.

@CsTominaga Buying at $86 was great, but buying at $60,000 is still a bargain if you need to maintain some sort of reality in this crazy world. However, and this is important.

@CsTominaga So what can a person be sure of? Only one thing perhaps - BTC has a max supply of 21m coins. This simple "Source of Reality" will see Bitcoin grow to millions of $ per coin over the next few years, simply bc Humans & Machines will need BTC to gain consensus on reality itself.

@CsTominaga Every day we are subjected to an ever more sophisticated, ever more personalised barrages of fake news. Discernment is almost impossible anymore. The narrative is controlled.

@elonmusk I am 100% with @elonmusk, free speech & against the principal of government overreach. Verifying identity is not an easy nut to crack but, like it or not, the blue check mark is assumed to be a symbol of true verification. Alas this is not the case. Ask me. I’ll send examples

@elonmusk The problem is that blue check marks are not 100 per cent genuine. In this respect the EUs statement is true. I have at least 50 examples of scam accounts with blue checks. Someone is selling them internally.

We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth

This is surreal. The leading Presidential candidate is explicitly saying he will make America the leader in bitcoin & crypto, while supporting the right to self-custody. All the critics were wrong. The government won’t ban it, they’re embracing it.

The dyed finger also becomes symbolic of having done your civic duty and if you don’t have a dyed finger everyone knows you didn’t vote.

When speaking to the guys in India I was blown away by the simplicity of the double voter solution they have implemented in their election process. After voting everyone has their finger dyed red and therefore cannot re-vote because the dye can’t come off for a few days.

Fantastic yesterday in Dubai clarifying “the ecosystem” and the direction of our work. This opportunity is unlike anything I have ever seen.

Physical and digital universes collided yesterday. 36 leaders in our growing collaborative ecosystem met to discuss "the future of the reward industry." Thanks to everyone who participated Together we're building "Critical Reward Programme Infrastructure on a Planetary Scale.

Early arrivals for our meets tomorrow :)

The most important distinction between price and value is the fact that price is arbitrary and value is fundamental. In the crypto world 95 per cent of the market is focussed on price. Make sure you focus on long term value.

One of Warren Buffett’s most famous quotes (via Benjamin Graham) is, “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” It’s an idea that largely guides his investment decisions and one that he has used to achieve an unparalleled level of success. ….