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.

Why this matters (beyond annoyance) This model trains people to accept: Non-transferable property Permission-based access to culture Silently shrinking rights over time It’s not about Apple specifically. Apple just executes it cleanly. The same structure exists across nearly all digital storefronts. The danger isn’t the format. It’s the precedent.

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.

Dylan sings: “The order is rapidly fadin’…” Meanwhile Satoshi, somewhere on Earth, typing like a ghost: “retarget = old_target * (actual_timespan / target_timespan)” difficulty = proof_of_work_limit / retarget The protocol was literally embodying the lyric. The old order was fading through math.

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.

Bitcoin is the opposite: Numbers don’t move unless energy is burned. Every block = work Every coin = cost Every movement = physics Every halving = programmed supply truth Bitcoin brought the natural law back: No energy → no creation. No work → no reward. It reconnected value to reality.