This is a photograph of fake tempura made from wax.
You can't eat it. It doesn't smell like tempura. It is used for show, for display. It isn't real.
In a world full of hungry people (the world you live in) a factory that makes this cannot feed a single person.
And yet, the world is full of food. You can use your prodigious skill to set up a factory that manufactures real tempura that feeds real people...who are real.
This is the difference between talking about Bitcoin and doing something about Bitcoin that puts Bitcoin into people's hands so they can use it.
Tempura can't make itself. It requires people who know what tempura is, how to prepare all the different parts that make it up, and if you want to be special, how to serve and present it.
1. Prepare Ingredients:
• Clean and cut vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
• Devein and clean shrimp, leaving tails on for easier handling.
2. Make the Batter:
• In a bowl, beat the egg, then add the ice-cold water and mix lightly.
• Gradually add the sifted flour, mixing with chopsticks or a fork to avoid overmixing. The batter should be slightly lumpy.
3. Heat Oil:
• Heat vegetable oil in a deep fryer or large pot to 340-360°F (170-180°C).
4. Coat and Fry:
• Dip the prepared ingredients into the batter, allowing any excess to drip off.
• Fry in batches, ensuring not to overcrowd the pot, until golden and crispy (about 2-3 minutes).
• Remove and drain on a wire rack or paper towels.
5. Serve:
• Serve immediately with a dipping sauce such as tentsuyu (a mix of dashi, soy sauce, and mirin).
That's quite the ingredients list and procedure, isn't it?
Bear in mind you need access to ice, vegetable oil, eggs, clean water, flour, vegetables and fire before you even begin to use the knowledge of what tempura is and that it is even possible or desirable as a dish.
Also to note, the idea of tempura and ever other dish can be conveyed from one person to another through a book. Books are useful, in fact essential to the spreading of ideas across time and generations. Man needs books and books are a good thing and books on Bitcoin are a good thing too.
But...
In order for anything to change, for justice to be done, for things to be fixed, for people to be protected, for Bitcoin to spread into the world, Bitcoin needs doers and not talkers.
Without people who are willing to risk their own money, time and lives, Bitcoin cannot do what it was designed to and is capable of doing. In fact, Bitcoin can't do anything at all by itself, because it is not a person.
You are a person, and only people like you can do something, do anything about Bitcoin or with it.
Julian Assange took great risks with his life to expose the vile, vicious crimes of the State and expose them to everyone. The world is a slightly better place because the information Wikileaks had access to was released.
Bitcoin is different however. It is more important.
With the information that Bitcoin is, by using information, the entire world can be changed. It can be moved off of unsound slave-money to sound money that doesn't cheat anyone.
When Bitcoin is the world's money (the money everyone on earth uses) then outrages like "Collateral Murder" can no longer happen, because there's no money for it.
If you support the need for sound money and dislike the arbitrary killing of innocent people, and you are a fan of Wikileaks, then getting Bitcoin to the position of the world's only money should be one of your biggest goals.
Your highest priority should be to help Bitcoin in some way. No amount of talking can make Bitcoin globally ubiquitous. Very specific and risky acts need to be executed to make this happen, and of course, even if you spend your life under a baseball cap for OPSEC, eventually, if you help Bitcoin become normal, no one will think you are odd for using it, and you will have no reason to cover your face, fear anyone knowing that you use Bitcoin or in any way treat yourself as special or odd because you use Bitcoin.
That's what winning looks like.
Winning does not look like going to a restaurant, ordering and then being served plastic tempura.
Winning is not reading Le Guide Culinaire and being served 10th rate Johnny Carson talk show LARPing in place of a divine Chocolate Soufflé. Nothing can replace doing something that is real, or participating meaningfully in something that is real.
Winning is not possible if people are not willing to participate in real ways that sometimes involve risk. The world requires it, and Bitcoin becoming the global default requires it also.
Julian Assange, Phillip R. Zimmerman, Ron Rivest, Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Sean Parker, Shawn Fanning, Bram Cohen, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Arthur Rock and not so many others all did their part to change the world profoundly, at great risk to themselves. They won, and because they won, everyone on Earth benefitted as a consequence.
These people are the elites. The best of the bunch. Unique.
You don't have to be as great as them to be great or to contribute. All that is required of you is to face reality as best you can.
And perhaps you can't. Perhaps all you can do is hid under your hat "for OPSEC" and let the world unfold as it may, with other people taking all the risk.
That's OK.
What is needed, what is coming, what is inevitable, are people who will take the risks, change everything and by dint of this, benefit the entire world. You are not needed to make this happen.
This is about the choice you can make; the choice that is available to you to stop LARPINg and to start HELPING.
Apparently, if you choose the latter, you'll find you feel good about yourself. And that would be a nice thing.
Right?
