America 250 — TidewaterBitcoin

America 250

Two hundred and fifty years of the American experiment. Part one is the story so far: the presidents in their own words, the story of the dollar, and the Hampton Roads shore. Part two asks where the money goes from here.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” Paris, 1910

In their own words

Nine presidents, eleven lines, each as it was spoken or written. Press play and the bust reads it aloud.

250 years of the dollar

From the Continental to the genesis block. The orange entries are Bitcoin’s.

The 757 was there

Hampton Roads has been in the story since before there was a United States.

What the Constitution says about money

New to Bitcoin? Start with the videos and the curriculum on the Resources page, or come to a meetup.

Can we continue down our current fiscal path?

Two of the founders warned about it. Here is where the numbers stand today, straight from the U.S. Treasury.

The national debt, 1790 to today

Where the money went

What happens if nothing changes

The Congressional Budget Office’s latest projections, out to 2036.

Five ways out

Every country that has carried too much debt has reached for some mix of these. Which mix is a political fight, not an arithmetic one.

Where Bitcoin fits

Start with the videos and the curriculum on the Resources page, or come to a meetup and ask the room.