{"id":661887,"date":"2025-03-30T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=661887"},"modified":"2025-03-30T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T03:20:29","slug":"the-philosophy-of-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/30\/the-philosophy-of-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophy of Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funny thing with conviction is that certainly nobody has a crystal ball to look into the future with 100% foresight. However, there are some obvious trends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, as time goes on, certainly more more people will continue to use their phones more, for more financial things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, everyone uses \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ABA PAY\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8211;> most places accept VISA as well,  there are also places that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Either cash (US DOLLARS, KHMER RIEL), or ABA PAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No this is very annoying because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always have cash on me, or not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And also\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to waste my time going to a bank teller, grabbing a ticket waiting a line to open up some international bank account, to load it with money, and keep having to do this ad infinitum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The unbanked?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m like super for bitcoin, but the same time, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not an anarchist. I think anarchists are a bunch of non-deadlifting losers \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcwho want to see the world burned down because they hate themselves, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a metaphorical suicide for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nietzsche also had an interesting observation about martyrs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Like Socrates and the such, is that they actually wanted to end their own lives, to one day drink the hemlock or handed themselves over to the authorities\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 There were almost doing like low-key suicide. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do not want a collapse of the financial system. In fact, what we want is a <strong>merge<\/strong>. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, the promise of Donald Trump winning the election is actually what spurred bitcoin to $110k a coin. And what is going to take bitcoin to 10 million and beyond he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be nation state support as well as bank support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you want your bitcoins to become 55 million a bitcoin, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcthen you WANT all nation states and ALL banks to adopt it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin is my steroids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing with conviction is that certainly nobody has a crystal ball to look into the future with 100% foresight. 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