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130 sats \ 15 replies \ @DarthCoin 19h \ on: Stacker Saloon

If you look for politicians, lawyers and the state approval or permission to use Bitcoin, is that Bitcoin anymore?

Generally, Bitcoin dgaf what meatspace does. The only real meatspace issues are miner decisions, but one's filter is the other's profits... meaning that even in miner "regulation", there is enough incentive for someone else to turn their miner with non-permissioned, inclusive block templates. It's just something to keep an eye on; i.e. be on the lookout for politically incentivized reorgs.

Other than that, if someone wants to ask permission for something, that is generally their problem... BUT...

... I've ran into problems with businesses (on both sides of the Atlantic) lately though, because the compliance pressure is nasty to them and many people are fully dependent on keeping their local overlords happy. An additional problem is that since so many in the Bitcoin space are dependent on either the fiat printer going brrrr, or the fiat rails they or their upstream source of sats depend on, that it is hard to do business past barter without the compliance slop. Doors will stay closed without compliance, regardless of potential value delivered - and in many cases, protective solutions make for a thick layer of overhead that would otherwise be completely unnecessary and wasteful.

This is the real problem now. @jasonb noted something similar about this yesterday too: #1494784. We can dismiss it with "pearls before swine", but maybe the real problem is that many people that would otherwise be interested are fully held hostage with no clean way out.

70 sats \ 9 replies \ @DarthCoin 18h

Ok let me put it more clear: who is more a bitcoiner?

the one that lick politicians boots for "less harmful" laws in regards bitcoin (IMHO all laws are just words on a napkin, especially in regards of bitcoin)
the one that doesn't give a shit about any politicians law and just use bitcoin as money

101 sats \ 8 replies \ @optimism 18h

Bootlicking is never good, because it strenghtens dependency.

I just think that with 99.999% of humans enslaved, we shouldn't blame the victims.

191 sats \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 18h

we shouldn't blame the victims.

bootlickers are not victims... are the real supporters of the state/govs.
Without bootlickers, govs will not see themselves as "legitimate".
Bootlickers will see themselves as "criminals" because they didn't obey the rules of the masters, the same rules they demand...

Bootlickers are worse than politicians themselves !

1 sat \ 6 replies \ @optimism 18h

I'm not disagreeing with you. But, the fact that tools exist doesn't mean that everyone is ready or skilled enough to use these tools. And Bitcoin is such a tool.

I think that the challenge is not to draw lines and call people names on what we perceive to be the wrong side of that line. I think that instead, the challenge is to help people in a way that is useful to them. Help that will empower them to improve their lives. Step by step, while being careful to not push them into another trap.

I don't have all the answers towards it but I do think that we can meaningfully help people, and it would be good to be able to focus on those that need it most. Side effect of that focus is that those that are thriving in their slavery, will keep doing so for a much longer time.

70 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 18h

You are still in the "being nice with normies" phase... I was there too.
Enough "being nice". Fuck'em'all. Bitcoin is only for the brave.

But I am tired of these stupid normies and what is more annoying is that some people that I do not consider "normies" are the worse bootlickers...
That really piss me off !

211 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 17h

I see that differently. I think that I'm in the ignore the normies phase. I don't want to work with normies, I don't really want to work with people that do not ignore the normies either. I don't seek to convert people into a religion. For exactly the reason you're saying: it's frustrating af.

I don't want to be angry at stupid people because my anger won't change them. They'll still appeal to their overlords and try to manipulate the injustice to be on the other guy instead of them, and profit from it. Fuck that.

Instead, I want to focus my energy on those that truly want or need the alternative. Not to get rich, but to be enabled to do great things. Everything I do should ultimately lead to that: free people from the bonds they were born and taught into, or worse: coerced into. But for that to succeed, we need more than just Bitcoin and I too don't have a complete formula for it. It'd be good to get that though.

70 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 17h

I want to focus my energy on those that truly want or need the alternative.

Oh you are in the 3rd phase hahahaha
Is hard, really hard. You will see that one day you will ask yourself: why am I doing all of this?

Helping people is a great thing, gives you real hope, only that sometimes, this goes against you. I know is hard to believe this, but is true.
That doesn't mean you should give up... no way! Keep pushing, just be aware of what are you doing and most important with WHO you are interacting...