Sounds like @AdamISZ is talking about a sort of Temporary Autonomous Zone of Bitcoin development. If we're talking about decade or two ago the "revolution" was the creation of the Bitcoin protocol and getting it working. Plumbing isn't really the revolution. though, and most technical Bitcoin dev work is focused on plumbing.
Over the past decade the Bitcoin protocol has matured significantly, and it has become a cyber battleground. State sponsored hackers steal from exchanges that sanction them, darkweb markets offer illicit goods and services, etc. The borders of the TAZ have moved from cyberspace and back into reality.
We could argue that Myanmar, Cambodia, North Korea, and Iran all host actors who use Bitcoin in a way that violates the international order which constitutes a "revolution" against the current power structure. Even the United States plays pirate by stealing stolen coins from Chinese/Cambodian pig butchering scam compounds. North Korea went from being sanctioned and in utter poverty to funding their nuclear weapons program via Bitcoin. If that's not global revolution then I dunno what is.
In my view the revolution isn't in the code of Bitcoin.The revolution is in the minds of the people who are using Bitcoin to change their material conditions, protect their own liberties from infringement by self-appointed authorities, and project their own power.
Although this usage of Bitcoin might not be what some people had in mind, it reflects the reality that the Bitcoin protocol works as it was designed to do. Plumbing isn't the revolution, new cryptography isn't the game changer. The spirit of revolution is found in adoption by people who really need Bitcoin to accomplish their goals.
Sounds like @AdamISZ is talking about a sort of Temporary Autonomous Zone of Bitcoin development. If we're talking about decade or two ago the "revolution" was the creation of the Bitcoin protocol and getting it working. Plumbing isn't really the revolution. though, and most technical Bitcoin dev work is focused on plumbing.
Over the past decade the Bitcoin protocol has matured significantly, and it has become a cyber battleground. State sponsored hackers steal from exchanges that sanction them, darkweb markets offer illicit goods and services, etc. The borders of the TAZ have moved from cyberspace and back into reality.
We could argue that Myanmar, Cambodia, North Korea, and Iran all host actors who use Bitcoin in a way that violates the international order which constitutes a "revolution" against the current power structure. Even the United States plays pirate by stealing stolen coins from Chinese/Cambodian pig butchering scam compounds. North Korea went from being sanctioned and in utter poverty to funding their nuclear weapons program via Bitcoin. If that's not global revolution then I dunno what is.
In my view the revolution isn't in the code of Bitcoin. The revolution is in the minds of the people who are using Bitcoin to change their material conditions, protect their own liberties from infringement by self-appointed authorities, and project their own power.
Although this usage of Bitcoin might not be what some people had in mind, it reflects the reality that the Bitcoin protocol works as it was designed to do. Plumbing isn't the revolution, new cryptography isn't the game changer. The spirit of revolution is found in adoption by people who really need Bitcoin to accomplish their goals.