Farley | Hard Fork Anthems

Pushed a small BCI update today. RPC over onion works — Tor just asks for patience.

Today: Centralized systems feel “normal” Sovereignty feels “radical” Tomorrow: Sovereignty will feel obvious Centralized permission will feel absurd People will look back and say: “Wait… you bought things you couldn’t keep?” “You owned money you couldn’t move?” “You paid for culture that could be revoked?” That’s the funny part.

Ownership vs. Control (the quiet sleight of hand) When you “purchase” a movie from Apple: You do not acquire the movie as an autonomous artifact You acquire a license to view it That license is bound to: Apple’s DRM Apple’s ecosystem Apple-approved software paths The .m4v format isn’t the movie. It’s the container + lock. So while Apple didn’t write the script, shoot the scenes, or edit the film, they control the conditions under which the movie may exist for you. That’s conditional reality. What Apple actually becomes Apple Inc. becomes: Execution Authority – decides where and how the file can be rendered Permission Layer – playback is granted, not inherent Format Sovereign – meaning the “ownership” only functions inside their borders If Apple disappeared tomorrow, your “owned” movie doesn’t age gracefully like a DVD or film reel. It vanishes with the platform. That tells you everything.

“Do you think someone’s imaginary digits should be everyone else’s money?” If that single question were put to an honest vote, with no framing tricks and no fear baked in, it wouldn’t take long at all. Most people intuitively know the answer the moment it’s phrased plainly.

The old world already sang the truth long before we saw it. Every one of these tracks reads like prophecy today: Fortunate Son — CCR (1969) The class divide of imaginary digits. Money — Pink Floyd (1973) The soundtrack of fiat illusion. For What It’s Worth — Buffalo Springfield (1966) Awakening before awakening. The Times They Are A-Changin’ — Bob Dylan (1964) Decentralization before the vocabulary existed. We’re Not Gonna Take It — The Who (1969) The rebellion before the protocol. Imagine — John Lennon (1971) The dream of a world beyond imposed divisions. War Pigs — Black Sabbath (1970) Elites exposed long before block explorers. Hotel California — Eagles (1976) The perfect analogy for a system you can “check out” of, but never truly leave. If #Satoshi had a playlist in 2008, half of it came from 1966–1975.

I own 12 tons of gold! And the best part? I don’t even have to prove it.

The meaning in one sentence Fiat makes numbers move even when the world doesn’t. Bitcoin makes the world move before the numbers do.

Fiat prices People checking a number that changes without anyone doing any work. What do I mean by that? In a real-value world (pre-fiat), numbers only changed when work happened Historically: You farm = crops increase. You mine = gold increases. You craft = goods increase. You engineer = structures increase. Every increase in “value” required energy. There was always a cost. Numbers didn’t move unless someone did something real. Under fiat, prices move even when no value was produced Why? Because fiat pricing is governed by belief, policy, manipulation, and liquidity, not value. Examples: • A loaf of bread changes price …but the wheat didn’t change …the farmer didn’t change …the labor didn’t change …the sun didn’t change Yet the price moves because: a central bank prints digits a government issues policy markets speculate on future costs algorithms adjust inventory wholesalers respond to supply fears None of these created bread. But the price changes anyway. That’s a number moving without work. Stocks move without anything being built Tesla stock goes up 10% in a day. Did Tesla produce 10% more cars overnight? Did employees do 10% more work? Did factories run 10% hotter? No. Digits moved because: hedge funds reposition, algorithms buy momentum, analysts adjust narratives, people gamble on belief. Again: A number changed. No value was created. No work was done. Housing prices rise while houses sit still A house can go up $100,000 in a year without: a nail being hammered a wall being touched a human doing any real work Digits inflate because: interest rates fall credit expands demand surges from money printing investors speculate zoning laws shift The house didn’t change. Value didn’t change. But the number changed. That’s the illusion in motion. Fiat lets digits move independently of energy, which breaks the natural law In the real world (physics, biology, engineering): Nothing increases without energy. But fiat violates that law: digits appear without cost prices rise without production markets grow without value wealth shifts without creation This creates a world where: digits imitate value but do not represent value. And people get trapped into believing the number is the wealth.

Gold is the only monetary asset on Earth that can: vanish into a vault no one is allowed to audit reappear on a balance sheet because someone said so double-count through rehypothecation shape-shift into jewelry, bars, coins, or dust get melted, recast, relabeled, reassigned go missing and no one can prove it magically “increase” in reported holdings with zero transparency serve as collateral even when it may not exist It’s Houdini money. Imagine running a global economy on something that can literally disappear without evidence and then reappear through paperwork.

Gold isn't “sound money.” It’s sound mythology maintained by the few who benefit from the opacity. Bitcoin didn’t just outcompete gold. It revealed gold. Empires love assets they can seize. Cartels love assets that leave no trace. Superpowers love assets they can hoard and lie about. And governments love assets that require trust instead of proof. But a global civilization built on: transparency verifiability permissionless access time-stamped truth open auditing incorruptible energy …cannot rely on a metal that disappears into vaults and reappears in fiction.