226 sats \ 10 replies \ @Coinosphere 29 Aug 2022 \ on: Is anyone else genuinely into Bitcoin for the tech? bitcoin
Few people get to see Bitcoin deeply in all three areas; "Number go up," "freedom go up," and "fintech go up."
I've always been in the freedom go up camp, and generally look down upon the vast unwashed masses who only recognize the NGU aspect to bitcoin.
The code/cryptography/fintech is mystifying though too. I know just enough code to appreciate it but have relied on Aantonop's videos to appreciate it further. Good for you to get that far on your own.
Sadly, many developers come to appreciate the fintech but don't see the freedom aspects at all, not until they've been here for a while. I see it all the time, in fact. Hacker news & Slashdot are full of these folks.
Lol what freedom do you get if everything is KYC’d?
Even then, what does freedom even mean? What do you want to use Bitcoin for, that you don’t want to use fiat for?
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inside the neural tissue of a three letter agent:
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Wake up fools - if you think your ‘privacy’ is more important than punishing crime, then you obviously have lived a quiet, spoiled life without any speed bumps whatsoever.
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Freedom is impossible anyway because there's no privacy:Lol what freedom do you get if everything is KYC’d?
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LOL, I remember this post also. A post so bad and condescending as to be memorable, even on the internet.
If it weren't for this great site we wouldn't get to witness such things together. Long live bitcoiners, eyes wide open!
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Your eyes aren’t wide open. You aren’t enlightened. You are simply selectively ignorant.
And have not refuted my point. Go ask someone living in a war torn country if you care more about security or privacy. Go ask someone living in a sclerotic economy.
I’ll wait.
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SN needs to a blocking feature. If I wanted to hear to @mikhael's normie takes I'd go watch CNN.
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Yes that’s right, stay in your echo chamber.
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You are putting words in my mouth, taking statements to a logic extreme. Not very smart, and the kind of thinking that only works on the internet - not in real life.
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On the chance your question is genuine, I will provide one opinion:
Freedom is the ability to navigate life uninterrupted by rent-seeking middle men and authoritarian fetishists. Nosy neighbors. Karens. Cops. Feds. Regulators. Lawyers. Permits. Code enforcement. Taxation. Just to name a few- the list is much longer and specific to the individual.
Some people enjoy all those things- more power to them. They can live their life uninterrupted by me and my silly ideas.
Let me return a question to you. You only have so many hours on this earth. What is an appropriate amount of them to devote to paperwork and bureaucracy? At what point would you feel you were just being dicked around?
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From my perspective, if you don’t want to be burdened by those things you mentioned, you should be able to opt-out if the system. If you don’t want to deal with taxation, or codes, or nosy neighbors - you should be able to forsake the public social and infrastructure benefits that come from the society you are opting out of, in exchange for not having to pay taxes to service those resources.
Sadly, the current nation state doesn’t allow people to opt out like that.
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You will never have freedom from authority so long as you live with humans. Authority in one way or another. Human nature.
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