Jimmy Song

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

The current financial system is fundamentally unfair. Bitcoin’s provable scarcity offers a decentralized alternative that protects your wealth and freedom.

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.
#1about 2 minutes

Bitcoin's core properties are decentralized digital scarcity

Bitcoin's value comes from its unique combination of being decentralized, digital, and scarce, which in turn enables freedom, progress, and fairness.

#2about 8 minutes

Understanding decentralization and its link to freedom

Centralized systems require permission from an authority, while decentralized systems like Bitcoin are permissionless, offering freedom from control and inflation.

#3about 10 minutes

The evolution of money and the progress of digital assets

Moving from physical assets to digital ones represents progress by increasing speed and portability, with Bitcoin being the next step in monetary evolution.

#4about 8 minutes

How dollar hegemony and inflation create unfairness

The global reliance on the US dollar, which can be inflated at will, creates an unfair system where wealth is transferred from the masses to those in control.

#5about 3 minutes

Bitcoin provides fairness and opportunity for the oppressed

Bitcoin's true scarcity offers a way for people in oppressive regimes to preserve wealth, escape hyperinflation, and gain financial independence.

#6about 2 minutes

Why a level monetary playing field matters for everyone

By combining decentralization for freedom, a digital nature for progress, and scarcity for fairness, Bitcoin creates a level monetary playing field for global prosperity.

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