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I think the goal is always to censor the illiterate masses. If their policies affect 98% of the population, it's a success. Those literate will always find a way. It's worth spending $1m to whack the 98% and it's not worth spending $100b to whack the 2%.
A good reason to study tech and be among the 2% because it means they mostly leave you alone.
I don't know about Fold, but I've had an attempt to open a bank account declined in the UK without an explanation. (Presumably based on the data I provided in the form about my finances and intended use of the account).
A year later I tried again and they declined it right after I gave them my phone number, before I even gave them my name.
Then someone told me I could request for my personal data to be deleted, as per some GDPR law, and then try again. It had worked for them.
I've requested it and been told my data has been deleted. Haven't tried opening an account again with them yet as I no longer need it.
It may not work in the US though if there is no 'right to be forgotten' there. (Which is really an entitlement and not a right).
It is indeed worrying to see all this compliance.
I'd rather not use services that comply with authorities, because it's unethical.
Any invention can be NP reduced to a discovery.
Inventions are recursively enumerable. Any paper corresponds to a natural number, including Satoshi's. He discovered a good one.
Democratic governments are high preference entities.
They will sell their coins to appease the masses who demand bread and circuses, as opposed to letting the next administration do it and being remembered as the 'bad', austere guys.
"There cannot be a master who answers to his slaves." - Larken Rose
The solution is a unilateral exit from surveillance and it's called encryption.
I assume the app stores will just take VPNs apps down as requested, for Brazil?
Yes, and cucks who use iOS will even be affected.
I like the transitional days, Saturday and Monday.
If I was a wage slave I'd hate Mondays though, and Sundays due to the anticipation and anxiety of what's coming.
It's not like there are not enough exchanges.
And what do you mean by wallets? Hardware signers? Clients like Sparrow and Electrum? No shortage here either.
Merchant adoption is not that relevant for SoV, which is what needs to adopted first.
I think the main obstacle to adoption is the NPC, government-trusting, cucked populace.
They need to get fcked over a bit harder for a bit longer. Maybe Argentina-style inflation would do it, but that would have to be mirrored in the USD too, because a less shippy government shipcoin is too much of a temptation for NPCs.
In other words: a certain shitcoin, known as the cuck buck, is being debased and those who for some mysterious reason choose to save in it are finding housing increasingly more expensive.
It's also noteworthy that those who choose to save in Shiba Inu tokens share their experience.
All the while house prices are falling head over fist against real money.
Detractors claimed that Telegram served totalitarian regimes and handed over data
Would be funny if it weren't sad.
Totalitarian regimes accusing Telegram of serving totalitarian regimes and handing over data, and arresting its CEO for not handing over data.
If you connect to a mobile network, you can be pseudonymous at best as your number is known. You can use WiFi at public hotspots or an eSIM bought anonymously.
I don't know about where you are, but in the UK you can buy a physical SIM card without KYC. And a used phone bought on eBay is KYC free too, but the seller knows the address and name it was sent to.
But how do we compare the value generated for others to the value they consume? Considering value is subjective and not always monetary.
If I grow an apple and trade it for an orange, the apple can make the other party happy, but how can we know the orange I got didn't make me even happier, making me less valuable?