Convenience trumps privacy, as per usual.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230303105135/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/business/india-digital-payments-upi.html

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And tyranny feeds off convenience.

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you posted a web archive version of it like a chad you're!!

Fuck paywalls.

But would you pay 10 sats to read an article?

I would pay 1,000,000 sats to read a great article. But only if I knew it was great, which I can’t know if it’s paywalled. #value4value

If i have read an article I found valueable and the author ask for a contribution at the end. I would do it.

I don’t think there’s much of a culture of individual liberty/sovereignty in India either, is there?

Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both

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Yes. And what’s the consequense of this for Bitcoin?

You know the drill, market explores all options, even those options that will backfire later (post-point-of-no-return) and that is when things rebalance.

Only those who acted out in the "right" way for the new enviroment persists, even if they acted out by chance, irationas believes or a good enough heuristic.

TL;DR time will tell if being a little bit more suspicious was the right way

What if we made unstoppable peer to peer bearer ecash more convenient than the alternative?

I will support this idea.

We should find a way to make privacy convenient but the State won’t make this game easy.

As per an Indian Bitcoiner friend of mine, you can’t get a SIM card in India without surrendering your fingerprint.

you may not know this but a fingerprint is not private property

you leave them all over the place all day long

copies of your dna too

only your private key is safe

bot the stuff you shed all over

How does it happen that a country turns to shit like that. Slowly? I hope each pleb recognises the signs in their own territory before it's too late.

They sure do put an AWFULLY nice spin on the story…🤮