I don't feel like it's been directed from the Cathedral, it's a bit too innovative. I think Satoshi would have needed to fucking disappear. He did something really dangerous: challenged the control of money. Look what happened to the guy who built Silk Road.
This is a common thing I actually see with Libertarians. If they are wealthy, innovative, or otherwise creative, they constantly stumble upon a very sensitive cord of government power and the blowback is absolutely tremendous. Like: You illegally downloaded a University's articles to a thumb-drive and uploaded them to sci-hub... so they put you in prison for 40 years (and that really did happen). Libertarians are constantly walking head first into a solution that requires immediate and violent blowback.
Unlike the guy who made Silk Road, he needed to get ghost immediately if he wanted to survive. That means abandoning the profits too. Without institutional power to protect you, they'll cut your throat, then they'll cut your kids' throats.
Instead, what we saw is a lot of efforts in banking to discredit it, possibly to intentionally crash it, and now they've tried adopting it as their last stage of undermining something that could well and truly damage their control over the financial markets. That seems far more common place to what the establishment does when confronted by the threat of innovation.
Interesting how open access to scientific research requires the possibility of a 35 year sentence, but for some reason we just can't go after the innumerable Chinese spies who prop up the CCP from stolen research from American universities, or classified information from US Senators, or even just letting them conduct bio-weapon research for us in their own country.
I don't feel like it's been directed from the Cathedral, it's a bit too innovative. I think Satoshi would have needed to fucking disappear. He did something really dangerous: challenged the control of money. Look what happened to the guy who built Silk Road.
This is a common thing I actually see with Libertarians. If they are wealthy, innovative, or otherwise creative, they constantly stumble upon a very sensitive cord of government power and the blowback is absolutely tremendous. Like: You illegally downloaded a University's articles to a thumb-drive and uploaded them to sci-hub... so they put you in prison for 40 years (and that really did happen). Libertarians are constantly walking head first into a solution that requires immediate and violent blowback.
Unlike the guy who made Silk Road, he needed to get ghost immediately if he wanted to survive. That means abandoning the profits too. Without institutional power to protect you, they'll cut your throat, then they'll cut your kids' throats.
Instead, what we saw is a lot of efforts in banking to discredit it, possibly to intentionally crash it, and now they've tried adopting it as their last stage of undermining something that could well and truly damage their control over the financial markets. That seems far more common place to what the establishment does when confronted by the threat of innovation.
dont forget what they did to swartz, clownlike bitch
Interesting how open access to scientific research requires the possibility of a 35 year sentence, but for some reason we just can't go after the innumerable Chinese spies who prop up the CCP from stolen research from American universities, or classified information from US Senators, or even just letting them conduct bio-weapon research for us in their own country.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.