Bitcoin is a defiant act of liberation from economic servitude. In this way, Bitcoin parallels the Underground Railroad: an escape route for those bold enough to abandon the plantation of fiat dependence and reclaim their sovereignty. Critics dismiss Bitcoin as speculative and unstable, just as abolitionists were once derided for daring to challenge the status quo.

— Neal Flesher, Modern Chains (Chapter 11)

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