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Mark of the Beast

In many different religious teachings around the world, the number 666 is spoken of as the “mark of the beast”. Perhaps most notably, Christian theology describes the mark of the beast in detail in the Book of Revelation:

“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom: Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” Revelation 13:16-18

Why 666?

In mathematics, the number 6 is known as the first perfect number (the three divisors, 1, 2, and 3, add to 6).

Order 6 Magic Square
6 32 3 34 35 1
7 11 27 28 8 30
24 14 16 15 23 19
13 20 22 21 17 18
25 29 10 9 26 12
36 5 33 4 2 31

In an order 6 magic square, each column, row, and major diagonal add up to 111. All six columns add up to 666. As do all six rows. As do all numbers between 1 and 36. The number of the beast is an esoteric number of immense power. It comprises the set of complete mathematics.

The Properties of Number 666

13 + 23 + 33 + 43 + 53 + 63 + 53 + 43 + 33 + 23 + 13 = 666

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 36

“More specific to the artwork above is this fact behind every barcode that is barely known… It is a universal standard for ALL retail barcodes to have the three conduit stripes in the code be the number “6.” The first two thin stripes (“6”) mark the entrance of the code across the laser scanner, signifying a new code coming. The second stripe, in the middle of the code (also the number “6”) tells the reader that the first set of numbers complete the identity of the manufacturer of the product. The code proceeds through the scanner with the second set of numbers, identifying the “product” itself bearing the code. The closing set of stripes is also the number “6,” indicating to the scanner that the scan is now complete. The scan is finished, and the identity of the product is accurately displayed and registered. In the US, such codes are 10 digits long; in Europe, they are 12 digits long. In ALL cases, the three 6s are standard communicators to the scanner. So, in conclusion, the prophecy of Revelation 13:16-18, suggesting a day coming where one would not be allowed to work or shop without this number (666) embedded in the flesh — suggesting total cashlessness — by comparison with today’s facts in which you can not buy or sell a product in retail today without a barcode that bears that very same number … how close are we now to that fateful day of body implantation of the same? It makes one wonder.” – Wallace Wood, DiginomicsCentral

What Will the Mark Look Like?

The mark itself will be a computational image made in the flesh which references the bitcoin network. By using this network of information, the beast will utilize artificial intelligence in an authoritarian manner to appear omnipotent and omnipresent. With the awesome power of artificial intelligence, the beast will know those who worship it better than anyone else, including themselves and their closest friends and family, and will personalize their approach toward every person who has the mark. The beast will know even the most intimate details about those who receive the mark.

“Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.” Revelation 13:7

The beast will utilize technology to deceive the inhabitants of the Earth that it represents God.

The beast will arrive on the scene with a background in the technology industries. It will be well received by the media industrial complex and the masses, seduced by its charm, will follow hypnotically. There will be many who convince themselves that in accepting the mark, they are doing God’s work.

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13,14

Who Will Receive the Mark?

All people of the world will decide to either accept or reject the mark of the beast. Social and financial standing will be of no consideration.

The mark cannot be forced upon one against their will – it must willfully be accepted or rejected. Whether one chooses to accept or reject the mark, that decision must be honoured. Every man shall be defined by their choice.

For those who willingly accept the mark of the beast, there will be great titles and earthly things. It will be considered an act of good faith to accept the mark and worship the beast. However, rejection of the mark will be considered unlawful – and there will be consequences for doing so. Those who reject the mark will be unable to buy or sell and unable to gain employment. The minority who reject the mark will be thought of as mad by the majority who accept it.

How Will the Mark Be Imposed?

The beast will use fear as a catalyst to encourage acceptance of the mark. There will be bounties placed on the heads of those who reject the mark, and they will be hunted by those who have received the mark.

“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” Matthew 10:21,22

Those who reject the mark will be socially ostracized and hated. For many, physical death will be a consequence of rejecting the mark of the beast.

“Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.” Revelation 20:4

What Will the Implications of the Mark Be?

The mark will exert complete control over man because it will be capable of transmitting and receiving light. Humans are made of flesh and blood. Blood is a condensation of light. Humans are beings of light. It will be implanted in the forehead where it will operate from the pineal gland to overcome the imagination of the individual.

Those who receive the mark will be unable to end their experience.

“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” Revelation 9:6

Choosing to accept the mark holds eternal consequences. Those who accept the mark of the beast willfully envelop themselves in a cybernetic tyranny. In accepting the mark, those who worship the beast will be replacing the Godhead with digital calculation. It is a path which leads to spiritual damnation.

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” Revelation 14:9-11

Woe be to those who fail to heed this admonition.

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Blockspace Is the Commodity of Bitcoin

When an individual makes a transaction on the bitcoin network, no actual currency is moved. That is – no file has moved, no commodity or asset has moved, no private or public key has moved. Rather, the only thing which changes is the percentage of the blockchain ledger which User A & B claim control over.

When a transaction occurs in the realm of bitcoin, the image of the blockchain is altered. Nothing ever changes but the composition of this blockchain record. The blockchain is a historical record of its ownership. It is a downloadable file (.dat) which began at zero and is now ~ 189 gigabytes (GB) in size.

There is no separation to be made between the blockchain and bitcoin. They are one in the same. Without the blockchain, you have no bitcoin ecosystem. Without an accompanying cryptocurrency, you have no measuring tool to determine the ownership of the blockchain. Money is now an image, rather than something which can be separated from the system itself. This image of money is being constructed by machines acting as miners across the globe. The miners are the painters of the blockchain image.

On the bitcoin network, money is an image continuously being generated (coinbase), re-attributed, and verified by way of cryptographic authorization – the application of numerical law.

The commodity of bitcoin is block space – that is, space within the ledger where data can be timestampped and verified into existence through the decentralized network of computers who are contributing their labour (hashing proof-of-work) in order to propagate the next iteration of blockchain .dat file.

Each hash performed by a bitcoin miner produces a random number between 0 and the maximum value of a 256-bit number. The SHA-256 hash of a block's header must be lower than or equal to the current target to be accepted by the network. If not, miners increment the nonce (completely changing the hash) and try again. This is the labour product that all miners contribute to the ledger of bitcoin.

The process of verifying information into the blockchain is the work performed. Each unit of bitcoin gains its value from the amount of work (hashpower) that went into solving the latest block.

Blockspace is the commodity!

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Bitcoin Is A Hedge Against Legacy Finance

Investing in bitcoin is the act of staking your claim in a newly emerging digital economy. This type of economic model is in itself a hedge against economic uncertainty because it is a different form of law which governs its use.

Characterizing this shift in the form of law governing money, is what Friedrich Hayek would describe as the ‘denationalization‘ of money. More specifically, Hayek stated that ‘the normal provision of money would be entirely a function of private enterprise, the chief danger to its smooth working would still be interference by the state’ in his Analysis of the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Currencies. With bitcoin, this denationalization of provision over money has never been more apparent.

“The chief danger, however, would threaten from renewed attempts by governments to control the international movements of currency and capital. It is a power which at present is the most serious threat not only to a working international economy but also to personal freedom; and it will remain a threat so long as governments have the physical power to enforce such controls.”

– Friedrich Hayek, Analysis of the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Currencies

Those ‘physical powers to enforce’ have now been lifted. Instead, we have in their place, enforcement powers which are defined by the laws of digital cyberspace. Geographical boundaries no longer exist, and therefore analog-money is a non-player, as are analog-actors who would attempt to control this ‘movement of currency and capital’.

As a store of wealth, bitcoin may be volatile, but in an age where we involving ourselves in the denationalization of money, it is not only a store of wealth, but a necessary consideration. Bitcoin as a hedge against legacy finance can exist simultaneously even if the long term implications of it are not yet clear.

Even if bitcoin were to fizzle out spectacularly, the idea that it encompasses a radically new form of law which governs its use, is enough to consider a stake in it.

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Bitcoin’s Brilliance Lies In Predictable Supply

In money systems of today, there exists nowhere near as accurate measuring tools for credit supply as there exists in cryptocurrency economies governed by source-code. Floating money supplies of M1, M2, M3 (measures of various money stock in circulation) are a far-flung estimate in our economies of today. There exists too many hidden, and loose channels for credit expansion to accurately measure the availability of credit. With bitcoin, we know for fact there will be 21 million units. We also know for certain how many new bitcoin will be released in the next 10 minutes.

When you own 21 bitcoin, you own 0.0001% of the bitcoin economy. We cannot dispute this, and because it is accurate and undeniable, it instills a perception of ownership in the mind of the consumer that constantly-expanding credit supplies never could. These more accurate measuring tools allow for the perception of credit, something that gives rise to agreement and adoption, to establish itself firmly in the mind of the consumer.

As one of the most common stores of wealth today, gold if often compared to bitcoin. We recently asked ourselves if bitcoin is superior to gold. We believe it is indeed superior. As a form of “digital gold”, bitcoin inherits many of the best characteristics of gold and improves upon them.

It matters not that gold has been around for centuries, but that gold has perceived scarcity and usefulness. Bitcoin as well has scarcity, but it has the measuring tools to prove it. Add on the fact that bitcoin is infinitely more portable and divisible than gold, and you have a case for supremacy.

As our availability of resources grows with global economic development and we continue to use the bitcoin network as a ledger to appropriate ownership of those resources, we will see its purchasing power increase proportionately. As a universal law, until our worldly physical resources are not in fixed supply, money must also be in fixed supply.

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‘s Brilliance Lies In Predictable Supply

In money systems of today, there exists nowhere near as accurate measuring tools for credit supply as there exists in cryptocurrency economies governed by source-code. Floating money supplies of M1, M2, M3 (measures of various money stock in circulation) are a far-flung estimate in our economies of today. There exists too many hidden, and loose channels for credit expansion to accurately measure the availability of credit. With bitcoin, we know for fact there will be 21 million units. We also know for certain how many new bitcoin will be released in the next 10 minutes.

When you own 21 bitcoin, you own 0.0001% of the bitcoin economy. We cannot dispute this, and because it is accurate and undeniable, it instills a perception of ownership in the mind of the consumer that constantly-expanding credit supplies never could. These more accurate measuring tools allow for the perception of credit, something that gives rise to agreement and adoption, to establish itself firmly in the mind of the consumer.

As one of the most common stores of wealth today, gold if often compared to bitcoin. We recently asked ourselves if bitcoin is superior to gold. We believe it is indeed superior. As a form of “digital gold”, bitcoin inherits many of the best characteristics of gold and improves upon them.

It matters not that gold has been around for centuries, but that gold has perceived scarcity and usefulness. Bitcoin as well has scarcity, but it has the measuring tools to prove it. Add on the fact that bitcoin is infinitely more portable and divisible than gold, and you have a case for supremacy.

As our availability of resources grows with global economic development and we continue to use the bitcoin network as a ledger to appropriate ownership of those resources, we will see its purchasing power increase proportionately. As a universal law, until our worldly physical resources are not in fixed supply, money must also be in fixed supply.

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Why The Internet Of Things Will Be Built On Bitcoin

There are as many different private key combinations as there are physical atoms in the known universe.

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The Blockchain Is The New Corporation

Do corporations need humans to survive? Increasingly the answer is “no”.

Corporations, as we have seen, are devoting a larger share of capital to automation technologies within businesses across almost every type of industry. Technological innovation, both by way of employee input and customer’s expected output, is undergoing a transformation. With blockchain technology, this is an organizational change that reassigns the role of the employee and customer outside the responsibility of human control. Blockchain technology stands to radically transform our concept of the corporation where machines, not humans, are both the customers and employees.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2027, 10% of global GDP will be stored on a blockchain network. In such a world, it will be clear that corporations are less reliant than ever upon humans to survive and prosper. Blockchain technology is the blueprint for a type of corporation that is light-years ahead of its 20th century predecessor in terms of resource allocation and communication methods.

20th century business models were characterized by ownership rather than access, and centralized over decentralized decision making. The bitcoin blockchain economic model does away with all these conventional notions and provides us a non-exclusive, decentralized, autonomous corporation. This type of corporate model is fundamentally different in its function because, among other things, it is independent of human intervention while simultaneously owned by no single party.

In the bitcoin economy, machines are the employees rather than as humans were in the industrial age. The role of the employee, and the producer of labour, is occupied by network miner. In terms of the bitcoin mining function, the product of labour would be the hashing power necessary to solve the next block of transactions. The compensation for each employee? The network pays each node equal to the current block reward every time the miner finds a solution.

Corporate Nucleus
The corporate nucleus has evolved beyond human function.

When we come to understand this shift in the makeup of the corporation, we see that the core of its function has undergone a significant change. The blockchain network concept is such an altering framework for conducting business, that it shakes the very foundations of what we believe to be a legitimate corporation. Truly, the blockchain represents a milestone in technology innovation.

Employees are now considered machines in the information age rather than as humans were in the industrial era. Further, customers are now humans, but soon to be machines as well with the implementation of self-executing smart contracts.

Uncheatable Smart Contracts

Networks of smart contracts have empirical objectives. That is, they’re functionality will be understood through examination of the source code which it operates by. As it applies to smart contracting systems of the future, open-source systems make for an entirely transparent and uncheatable form of governance. The instances of misuse will come from failing to understand the objectives of the contract or network.

It is crucial that we note the computing revolution is well past an inflection point. When such technologies first began being used in universities and large organizations, they were under the control of many, many humans who all shared one machine. With bitcoin, we have one large, interconnected computer network which controls many, many human counterparts. More importantly, it administers one of the most precious aspects of our lives: financial livelihood.

An exact reversal of how the computing revolution began is characterized by an inflection point of control which has recently passed. First we shape our tools, thereafter our tools shape us.

Once the machine thinking method has started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers. … At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control ….

– Alan Turing, Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory, 1951

Networked Machines

You can be certain that, just as one computer would work for many humans in times past, many humans will come to work for one main network of machines. Computer technology is capable of achieving this dominance because it rewrites the laws of society with something based on mathematics and science rather than steel and paper.

The blueprint of blockchain technology represents an important milestone in computing innovation – one which allows digital systems, whether they be for commerce or communication, to operate independently from conventional forms of law.

As is with the current landscape of bitcoin today, the miners are the employees of the corporation. Mere years ahead however, lies a paradigm where smart contracting begins to populate the role of customer as well.