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Bitcoin the Great Arbitrator
/ B Y C H A R L E N E B R O W N

Bitcoin bares no coat of arms. There is no
emblem of a fierce two-headed eagle
crested with stalks of wheat in its
clutches. This flag depicts no roaring lion
on hind legs ready to pounce.
The white and orange flag wasn't staked
in the ground by a platoon or the advance
cavalry. And there certainly won't be
memes of a bitcoin flag flying high from
the bow of oil ships off the Crimea
peninsular.
The "B" encircled in orange at the center
of a white flag, stands for BITCOIN the
great arbitrator.
The DNA of bitcoin is borderless.
It's gene pool is a protocol
distributed ledger. rendering
software as a service.
The war bares naked the challenge for
citizens to trade freely within and without
their borders. Russians, Ukrainians,
citizens around the globe, privately stake
and wave their orange on hard drives and
in digital wallets on their
cellular phones.
At lightning speed, the
bitcoin flag flies on the
blockchain, winning the
war over individual
financial freedom
for all citizenry.
A tale of two states play out improvstyle in real time. Backstage, Russia
skirts sanctions by adopting bitcoin as
legal tender and trades oil for BTC.
Centerstage, Ukraine funds its military
and bolsters its borders with crypto
donations.
Bitcoin is playing out as a FORCE for
GOOD. Though entities try to impose
limitations of its users, attempts to
stifle it's adoption have proven futile.
Bitcoin is a self-governing, selfregulating phenomenon.
While crypto exchanges ban trades
using the Russian ruble, many
exchanges launch crypto wallets with
Ukrainian benefactors.
No matter what side of the conflict
your views land - or to whichever
ancestry your DNA is rooted, Russia
or Ukraine - no doubt whatsoever,
you're in bitcoin country baby.
A common denominator in Ukraine and
Russia is the blue stripe in each of their
flags. As swift as Russia invaded
Ukraine early 2022, so swiftly has an
orange and white flag been hoisted on
both sides of the embankment.
For the first time in history, no
dominating powers can stare down the
CEO of bitcoin with demands to effect
the outcome of the war. Bitcoin has no
CEO. Bitcoin knows nobody's name or
wants to.
Bitcoin is ran by everybody who runs the
bitcoin node on a decentralized
network of computers worldwide. Soon,
everybody will mine bitcoin. Bitcoin is
owned by everyone who owns bitcoin.