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nicodemus 2 years ago
Man, thank you. I dunno why this concept is so hard for people to work out on their own. Too fucking focused on the fiat value vs the freedom they have a chance at obtaining/maintaining.
Noncompliance is pretty much the only thing. They will tell us we have to use centralized exchanges. You have to be willing to still trade P2P or use Bisq. They will tell us we can’t coinjoin. You have to be willing to still coinjoin. As a business they will tell you that you have to KYC your customers who pay with Bitcoin. You have to be willing to let your customers still pay anonymously. Takes the will to take some risk, which will be tough during the “then they fight you” stage which we are in the beginning of.
I also think about having plausible deniability. Using lightning as it was intended is about the most normal thing you can do with bitcoin, and it offers moderate privacy. The problem is with all these LSPs moving in.
I can imagine these businesses will want to keep it a secret if they are running this software which makes it hard to vote with your satoshi.
99% of all Americans have no idea that the US Government confiscated all the gold they have now. I’m not kidding ask people you know if they knew that in the 1930’s the US made it illegal to own gold and they will NOT believe you.
The danger is and always has been the social layer. nostr is the only real defense that bitcoin has. Expanding and fortifying this ecosystem is the most important work we can do.
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umni 10 months ago
Would love to see a estimate of the kyc percentage of total supply or percentage of kyc recently transacted coins.
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umni 10 months ago
This is only going to work if when it comes time you have the ability to say no.
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umni 10 months ago
Is there a tipping point? If kyc percentage of supply reaches a certain level will it incentivize them to consolidate the populations holdings by force? If so every kyc exchange making kycbtc easier than the alternative is a threat to everyone.