What American Independence Looks Like When Secured By Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a monetary system that returns to the ideals upon which American independence was built.This is an opinion editorial by Bruce Fenton, candidate for U.S. Senate and the founder and CEO of Chainstone labs.It’s the money. The money is broken. Politicians broke it.This truth pretty much summarizes much of what is wrong in our world today: inflation, war, the failed drug war and violence — all a result of bad monetary policy. Even obesity can be traced back to bad money and the broken incentives it causes, such as corn syrup subsidies. We must fix the money to fix America and the....
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