“There’s a mechanism of horror and death that our money directionally contributes to, and we have no democratic processes to actually resist it, and furthermore, when we do try to resist it we’re criminalised…and to me that’s what Bitcoin has always represented is we can actually say ‘no’ now; and, yeah, maybe they can lock me up or do whatever they want, but they can’t have my money.”
— Erik Cason

American HODL is an OG Bitcoin investor and Erik Cason is a cypherpunk and author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss the transcendent orange political movement, re-forging the American meritocracy, and Bitcoin reformation vs revolution.

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