TheGuySwann on Nostr: Bitcoin maximalism isn’t monopoly. It’s common sense. That’s like saying ...

Bitcoin maximalism isn’t monopoly. It’s common sense. That’s like saying everyone having the same free speech is a “human rights monopoly.”

Money has the most powerful and most convergent network effects of anything in an economic system, because it’s what *defines trade* in that system. If a society uses a different money, it’s more accurate to call it a separate society than a different part of the same one. This is why one can be viciously poor, unproductive, and industrialized, right next to a modern economy in the internet age.

If sound money is to bring the world together and offer a genuine foundation for a free market society, it will be with *one* monetary base, to the degree that it can sustain and garner trust in its radical neutrality and immutability.