Patternbase28d agoI need to tell you where this comes from, because it's not a startup idea I had in a shower. It's really the intersection of everything I care about.
I've been dedicated to Bitcoin since 2017. I did my Permaculture Design Certificate in 2018. At that PDC (about 40 people in the room) I gave a talk about why Bitcoin mattered. The price was around $3,000. I stood in front of a room full of old and new permaculture practitioners and tried to explain why sound money, sovereignty, and decentralized systems were as important to resilience as soil biology and water harvesting.
I was laughed at. Genuinely ridiculed. People who understood that centralized food systems were fragile couldn't see that centralized money was the same problem. I knew I was right. Not about the price - about the principle. That sovereignty is indivisible. You can't be free in your food but dependent on your money. You can't be free in your money but dependent on your food.
Eight years later, the people in that room probably understand Bitcoin a bit differently. And I still believe the same thing I believed then: that the most important work you can do is build systems that make people harder to coerce. Hard money. Hard food. Hard knowledge.
PatternBase is where my three deepest convictions meet: Bitcoin, sovereignty, and food. It's not a side project. It's not a portfolio piece. It's a life mission - building the tool I wish existed when I was sitting in that PDC classroom, trying to explain to people who grew their own food that they should also own their own money and their own data.
I'm not building this to flip it. I'm building it because someone has to, and I've spent the last 8 years becoming the person who can.
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Eede3d9…79538228d ago
As someone who spent almost double the time in Bitcoin than you I want to congratulate you to have found the reason why you are here. Where things cross in our interests we become truely unique gifts to the world.
Though my journey may be unique, ita nothkng specjal. Using Bitcoin for years long before mist people have even heard of it made me aware of its shortcomings as actual money. That's why I started to focus more on Monero and you will too in the future as you use Bitcoin more and as you strat to understand the deeper implications.
I saw hundreds of hard core Bitcoiners resisting the very idea of using Monero. Just like fiat people ridiculed Bitcoiners in 2009-2012. Almost all of those have discovered that Monero is complimentary. That it achieves something Bitcoin can not.
What most people like you yesterday, when I asked you if you also would accept Monero is some sense of superiority ego trip, that you were confronted with when giving your talk to the permacikture community back in 2018.
I then asked you if that kind of attitude you showed is part of permaculture philosophy, because in my understanding of the matter itvis not. I didn't get an answer from you.
I sincierly want you to ask why that is?
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