Bitcoin isn't "violence", you morons

passively holding a financial asset is an act of violence? you're fucking insane (or a psyop)

“Bitcoin is violence” argue a small but vocal minority, in a move that smacks of either delusion or deliberate psyop.

If I buy a gold coin and I put in my drawer and keep it there, have I engaged in an act of violence?

Don’t be ridiculous!

So to assert that Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) is somehow “violent” means you are either very stupid, very confused, or engaged in a deliberate psyop.

Compare: “bitcoin is violence” with “speech is violence”.

Why would you want to make the ridiculous argument that “speech is violence”? So you can censor speech you don’t like. Huh-drrr.

Yes, my vocal chords vibrate and air with sounds come outta my mouth. But anyone who thinks “speech is violence” should remember what we all learned, or should have learned, in kindergarten:

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”

Purchasing a financial instrument and passively doing nothing with it is the exact opposite of violence.

But Saifedean Ammous in The Bitcoin Standard says it better than I can:

Bitcoin, and cryptography in general, are defensive technologies that make the cost of defending property and information far lower than the cost of attacking them. It makes theft extremely expensive and uncertain, and thus favors whoever wants to live in peace without aggression toward others. [emphasis mine]

and again a few pages later:

any aggression […] cannot have moral justification. Bitcoin, being completely voluntary and relentlessly peaceful, offers us the monetary infrastructure for a world build purely on voluntary cooperation. […] It seeks to impose itself on nobody, and if it grows and succeeds, it will be for its own merits as a peaceful neutral technology for money and settlement, not through it being forced on others.

Call bullshit when you hear bullshit. Words have ordinary common sense meanings. Use them.