But more than that, I want you to understand that we deserve to win, and that the future – the world of our children, grandchildren, and so on – very much needs us to win. Our culture (of golden-ruled decentralization) stands for, and supports in action, the things that allow life to thrive upon Earth.

Let me make this point very clear:

We believe in the Golden Rule… as in actually believe in it, all the time. Our culture takes it seriously and acts like it's the only healthy way to live.

The cowardly way of life is to follow the crowd. What makes the world better, on the other hand, is to live by what's right. Making unpopular choices – building a private, digital economy, homeschooling your children, ignoring brain-locked regulators, pursuing unapproved cures, holding to your conscience even when it's forbidden – these things require strength of character, and these actions are presently changing the world.

Regardless of our occasional stupidities and errors, our way of life clearly deserves to succeed.

How We'll Win

"To change something," said Buckminster Fuller, "build a new model and make the old obsolete." And we've been building a new model considerably more than we may realize.

A new model is precisely how the personal computer came to be and how the Internet came to be. Regardless that computers and the Internet have been recaptured by the ruling establishment, the model remains and subsequently spawned both encryption and Bitcoin, technologies that are ephemeral and a lot harder to conquer.

Moreover, the cryptosphere is growing tremendously. When I started pursuing such things back in the 1990s, there were very few of us, and far between. Now I run into crypto advocates in grocery stores, not to mention in general business circles.

There are tens of thousands of people working to develop, improve, and spread cryptocurrencies every day, often at their own expense and despite considerable uncertainty. They do this because they believe they're building a better world.