Bitcoin cannot be stopped.

You will hear it repeated many times, ‘The government is going to ban Bitcoin’ and/or ‘The government is going to shut it down’.

Today, I will explain why the government isn’t stopping shit.

Remember the Vietnam war? A lot of people think that the US lost because the Viet Cong build tunnels & hid underground; guerilla warfare. But they miss the larger point.

What they effectively did was decentralize their forces.

Cut off one head & another one emerges. Capturing & torturing a Viet Cong soldier was of no use. He had no significant strategic secrets to share and couldn’t tell you where all the tunnels were located; because these Viet Cong groups fought largely independent of each other & carried out their own tactics. They just shared a common goal: beat the anti-communists.

The decision to go underground wasn’t something they had trained for, nor planned for decades. It was improvisation; a decision born out of the necessity to fight differently when facing an opponent superior in brute force.

Bitcoin did not adopt the dark. It was born in it, molded by it.

It has been preparing since day 1 for the war that is coming when it steps out into the light. We are not there yet. When we are, you will know.

Governments are great at ‘smashing things’ with their hammer. They can smash people, organizations, even other countries if their hammer is big enough.

But you can’t smash an idea. An idea that represents itself in the form of a decentralized network that diligently keeps a ledger. Bitcoin exists in the realm of ideas, it is not technology, although it arises from technology.

It is not a person nor an organization or a particular nationality or race, although it contains all of these. It is an idea, and the great thing about an idea is that it can be shared by all of us.

If you know the US had a hard time beating the Viet Cong, imagine them trying to beat an idea that is shared by a student, a young father, a single mother, a professor, a CEO and a retiree; in total millions of people all around the world.

Independent thinking people, all with their own spheres of influence, using a network build with the intention of withstanding a nation state level attack.

We overestimate how powerful the government is against the type of non-violent, decentralized warfare we are waging. That's why they haven't made a big move yet: they don't know what to do. They will try to come for us when they realize just how existential the threat is to the current system & status quo, but they won’t be able to identify a spot where they can hit us with a killing blow.

They can hurt us, but they can’t win.

Stack sats, spend sats & educate your neighbor. Peace.