beautyon on Nostr: I'm afraid this is literally not true, in any real sense of the words. Civil servants ...
I'm afraid this is literally not true, in any real sense of the words. Civil servants do not "work for us." This is why Bitcoin was created in the first place, and I suspect Satoshi knew this.
If Civil Servants worked for us, the money supply would not run out of control, and there would never have been a need for Bitcoin to be written. It is precisely because Civil Servants do not work for us that Bitcoin is required to act as an external, automatic constraint on them.
The abuses of the Civil Servants (the permanent government) and the elected politicians (the window dressing) is well known, and only naïve teenager believes in The State, and that, "After all, they're out there to protect us."
It's almost as if recent history has not happened (COVID-19) and the entire 20th century was just a fiction in a bad science fiction novel.
How can anyone think politicians and Civil Servants are working for the people? It's baffling; but many people maintain a quasi religious belief in the State, because that's all they can imagine, and frankly, that's OK.
Bitcoin must do what it was designed to do in spite of the people and their peculiar beliefs, even the people very close to its inception. It has to work as a force of nature, otherwise, it will not be as powerful as it needs to be to change everything to do with money.
It has to be said also, that there is a profound lack of empathy for Keonne Rodriguez and T-Dev on many sides (both of whom I understand have wives and children). There is no thought about the suffering they're enduring; it's as if they're just pictures on a screen and not real people. Shocking.
I feel very bad that these two fine, brusque men have been thrown in gaol for performing maths. How anyone can trivialize this is breathtaking. It's like saying, "Galileo should be burned, twice, because he is disrupting Society with his ideas".
No one today would say Galileo should be burned for heliocentrism, and this is exactly what is happening to Rodriguez and Burroughs. In hindsight, when it is not risky to go along with the crowd after people are vindicated is easy; it is hard to defend the rights of people who are being rounded up and hounded in real-time.
And for someone who just escaped the poison fangs of Faketoshi, I would hope there is sympathy for others facing unfair challenges to their liberty to write software.
It should be clear to everyone that giving $1,000,000 USD per year to CoinCenter did not work. It should also be clear that lobbying isn't working either. It has been tried and has failed. The Chambers of Commerce, Associations, Centers and other drivel have failed to protect Bitcoin users so following Einstein, doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome is literally I _ S _ N E.
Bitcoin is full of different characters with different approaches to the single realty everyone has to live in. We will see who is successful in addressing that reality. We know (slight diversion) that Apple is very good at addressing the market, and that other companies were not, with their utilitarian beige boxes that, "Get the job done".
Ultimately, Bitcoin will be exposed to this same dynamic. That's why the smart money is betting on Bitkey (for example) to change the world.
As for Samourai, I hope they take this to the highest court, sue their persecutors and win astronomic damages. I think they're victims in this, and by extension so could be the free use of Bitcoin. And whilst other people find them too abrasive, we now know for sure that the people with different, softer approaches have failed to midwife Bitcoin or even run wallets at a profit, unlike Samourai, who do.
Note the tense.
Is there a third option between these two opposite sides of the question? If there is, I hope someone brings it, because it would be useful.
The original Cypherpunks wrote very provocative essays that made people feel uneasy, and now they're held up as incredibly insightful heroes. You're in that today, even if you can't see it happening before your eyes.
When the story of all this is written, and it will be written, I want it said of me that I supported the rights of these bold and aggressive men, and was not a mere bystander, equivocator or someone who turned away.
But that's me. Other people do "other"!
https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1785048401656025305?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA
If Civil Servants worked for us, the money supply would not run out of control, and there would never have been a need for Bitcoin to be written. It is precisely because Civil Servants do not work for us that Bitcoin is required to act as an external, automatic constraint on them.
The abuses of the Civil Servants (the permanent government) and the elected politicians (the window dressing) is well known, and only naïve teenager believes in The State, and that, "After all, they're out there to protect us."
It's almost as if recent history has not happened (COVID-19) and the entire 20th century was just a fiction in a bad science fiction novel.
How can anyone think politicians and Civil Servants are working for the people? It's baffling; but many people maintain a quasi religious belief in the State, because that's all they can imagine, and frankly, that's OK.
Bitcoin must do what it was designed to do in spite of the people and their peculiar beliefs, even the people very close to its inception. It has to work as a force of nature, otherwise, it will not be as powerful as it needs to be to change everything to do with money.
It has to be said also, that there is a profound lack of empathy for Keonne Rodriguez and T-Dev on many sides (both of whom I understand have wives and children). There is no thought about the suffering they're enduring; it's as if they're just pictures on a screen and not real people. Shocking.
I feel very bad that these two fine, brusque men have been thrown in gaol for performing maths. How anyone can trivialize this is breathtaking. It's like saying, "Galileo should be burned, twice, because he is disrupting Society with his ideas".
No one today would say Galileo should be burned for heliocentrism, and this is exactly what is happening to Rodriguez and Burroughs. In hindsight, when it is not risky to go along with the crowd after people are vindicated is easy; it is hard to defend the rights of people who are being rounded up and hounded in real-time.
And for someone who just escaped the poison fangs of Faketoshi, I would hope there is sympathy for others facing unfair challenges to their liberty to write software.
It should be clear to everyone that giving $1,000,000 USD per year to CoinCenter did not work. It should also be clear that lobbying isn't working either. It has been tried and has failed. The Chambers of Commerce, Associations, Centers and other drivel have failed to protect Bitcoin users so following Einstein, doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome is literally I _ S _ N E.
Bitcoin is full of different characters with different approaches to the single realty everyone has to live in. We will see who is successful in addressing that reality. We know (slight diversion) that Apple is very good at addressing the market, and that other companies were not, with their utilitarian beige boxes that, "Get the job done".
Ultimately, Bitcoin will be exposed to this same dynamic. That's why the smart money is betting on Bitkey (for example) to change the world.
As for Samourai, I hope they take this to the highest court, sue their persecutors and win astronomic damages. I think they're victims in this, and by extension so could be the free use of Bitcoin. And whilst other people find them too abrasive, we now know for sure that the people with different, softer approaches have failed to midwife Bitcoin or even run wallets at a profit, unlike Samourai, who do.
Note the tense.
Is there a third option between these two opposite sides of the question? If there is, I hope someone brings it, because it would be useful.
The original Cypherpunks wrote very provocative essays that made people feel uneasy, and now they're held up as incredibly insightful heroes. You're in that today, even if you can't see it happening before your eyes.
When the story of all this is written, and it will be written, I want it said of me that I supported the rights of these bold and aggressive men, and was not a mere bystander, equivocator or someone who turned away.
But that's me. Other people do "other"!
https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1785048401656025305?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA