Bitcoin a Force For Good on Both Sides - Tokens Magazine - XTokens Magazine

TOKENS Magazine 2022 printed edition https://tokensmagazine.com/images/2022/31-force-bitcoin.pdf

FORCE
ARBITRATOR
BITCOIN
BORDERLESS
/ B Y C H A R L E N E B R O W N
A
FORGOOD
THE GREAT
Bitcoin the Great
Arbitrator
/ B Y C H A R L E N E B R O W N
A tale of two states play out improv-style 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.
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.
The DNA of bitcoin is borderless. It's gene
pool is a protocol distributed ledger
rendering software as a service.
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.
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 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.