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This is exactly like banning SSL for all applications where the owner of the user's app isn't identified.

The French tried to impose this in the 1990s, but once SSL was everywhere, it was impossible for France to implement it, despite building a regulatory and storage framework to register all SSL private keys.

SSL keys can be generated at will almost instantly by anyone without any technical skill. It happens every time you install a browser or set up a server.

Sound familiar?

That's what happens when you download and open a Bitcoin Wallet. It's exactly the same in nature.

Now an absurd ban is proposed for Bitcoin wallets, and it's pretty obvious this would happen in the, "Then they fight you" stage.

This is why I've been harping on about spreading bitcoin everywhere as quickly as possible, so that it becomes a global default that cannot be revoked without killing the internets.

This is also why I've been working to re-contextualize bitcoin away from what people mistake it for to something more like what it actually is.

No one thinks SSL is "encryption"; they think it is "security". Similarly if people think bitcoin is money, then they will think about it as if it is money, as if you "receive" bitcoin, and all other money analogies.

If this false categorization by Google of Bitcoin wallets doesn't go through, the next attempt surely will. Unfortunately, people with power can't seem to understand long term strategic thinking in this area, despite the history of Public Key Encryption tool adoption being widely known.

A necessary prerequisite to bitcoin being everywhere is the distribution of it to billions of people. That's what we're doing at Azteco. When we succeed in doing this, bitcoin will be a common as SSL Certs in your browser.

And no, it will not be enough to simply build tools that use bitcoin; you can't use bitcoin without getting it, and that is the task many people simply run away from rather than confront head on.

Things that seem to be very large, very bad problems can be completely eliminated. Faketoshi is the most recent example, but there have been many others, like the RSA Munitions Export case. Bitcoin can win and come out unscathed.

It will take dedication to make it happen and people who can think for themselves and make up their own minds about what sort of future they want to be a part of building for mankind.

The bitcoin distribution problem is being effectively solved by Azteco, with 700m people being given access to bitcoin in a way that no real bitcoiner could possibly oppose.

It didn't take many people to solve the big problems; technical ones like Public Key Cryptography, PGP (Zimmerman), Bitcoin (Satoshi), BitTorrent (Bram Cohen) and many others. Your only question for yourself is this, "Am I a part of the solution or the problem?".

And if you think you can build a paralell society on App Store Apps that will help billions of people, you are completely delusional.

If App stores can ban Bitcoin wallets, they can ban your sneaky chat app, which, because it doesn't mediate bitcoin, can't change the world, and even if it could mediate bitcoin transactions, cant do so unless people can get bitcoin to use on it, and if they can, that will surely cause an App store ban, because it will be an "Unlicensed Bitcoin Wallet", however they want to define that.

At some point, as has been in the past, a problem must be solved directly. With SSL, it was the rapid proliferation of browsers and the browser as the default interface to all eCommerce.

The same thing needs to happen with Bitcoin; bitcoin must be the default way billions of people spend online, and the way to do that is to seed the global population with small amounts of bitcoin.

When commercial interests merge with the interests of billions of people, you get a platform that completely resists arbitrary change that doesn't serve the people's or commercial interests.

This is what must happen with bitcoin, and it can happen, and happen very rapidly.

I was just wondering where Beautyon has been. You need to follow this npub.

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Imagine building something that no one is using, and then building something on top of that even less people can use unless it's under the most strict conditions, that no ordinary person will tolerate under any circumstances... and then thinking.

"THIS IS GOING TO RAWK!"

No, it's not going to rawk. It's going to die a slow death after the initial excitement in a small number of people wears off, unless a radical change happens...whatever that may look like.

And even as it's launched, all people can think of saying in these place is, "GM FRENZ", when the world is on the brink of WW3 and events unimaginable are commonplace.

This is a picture of the failure of a generation with the greatests tools and frameworks in the history of mankind at their fingertips...and all they can come up with is, "GM FRENZ".

This is the generation that could kill the Federal Reserve and usher in a golden age of financial liberty, flexibility, and absolute monetary justice. They could still kill it...well...at least the ones who are awake.

Instead, they set up strawman problems to solve, the solution of which do not result in the world changing, solutions designed to completely avoid confrontation of any kind with any body.

And herein is the key. There are people with the super powers required to fix problems but who abhor confrontation so much, they are paralysed in the one area that is a prerequisite to making global change

The ability to make decisions themselves.

All the great technologists have one thing in common; they are so convinced of their principles and solutions that they have absolutely no hesitation to tell anyone about how and what they think about any subject; in fact, they fall over themselves to do so at every opportunity.

If you can't articulate what you believe, if you are paralysed by indecision, if you are a a disinterested and deluded coward, you can't help anyone, and the powers you have are nullified by your low character.

Meanwhile...

The tiny number of people who don't suffer from these character flaws, and who have the means, are able to do things that change the world. Even if after they do that, they turn to the Dark Side, if they've left something behind that is good, perhaps that is all they were born for; that one single good thing that changed everything...like Dr. Richard Daystrom, and the Duotronics breakthrough that profoundly changed computer science forever.

The time you're living through is without precedent. On many fronts, fundamental changes to how man interacts with man are at the fingertips of every person of every class. How could you shrink from this challenge? How could you not see yourself in the rôle of an active participant bound for glory (Excalibur final scene: Arthur kills Mordred).

How can you not...get this?

You've woken up on the shore of your subconscious. You don't know where you are, how you got there, why you're there, how to get back to the real world...but several levels up, the real world is there, and so is your real life, and everyone who is really alive.

PROTIP: That's where you want to be. Not in a dream world where you're deceiving yourself that you're living; the real world is where life is, not deep down there on that beach.

I needed that. Nostr needs that. Please never stop.

GM FREN

Stopped reading once I realized you haven’t accepted WW3 has been here a long time.

It can get so much worse. We're literally the last pillar holding up the world at this point - bitcoiners.

Obvious Ima aware of how bad boots on ground warfare is.

Little over my head, but I like what he's saying. Followed.

Good move. Best follow on nostr.

Big claim.

Look him up on YouTube. Listen to everything he says. He doesn't waste words.