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Continuing on the decentralization theme:

The Canadian Freedom Convoy protest one year ago can inform us on the subject of decentralization.

That protest against government overreach was possible *because* there was a free(ish) market of sovereign human individuals making decisions based on preservation of liberties.

If all the trucking vehicles on the road had been centrally controlled AI-driven vehicles,, there would have been no ability for the Canadian people suffering under authoritarianism to display such an effective infrastructure protest against government mandated injections and restrictions.

Seeker Erebus 2y ago

And of course, if the fundraiser had been done entirely with bitcoin, it couldn't have been blocked or interfered with, and a million Canadian citizens wouldn't have had accounts frozen.

Don't forget that part.

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Leo Fernevak 2y ago

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Bitcoin is the best liberty and decentralization technlogy we have and we in the bitcoin community could provide the truckers with instant fundibg while the centrally controlled legacy systems were shut down and donors were accused of criminal behavior for supporting the liberty convoy.

Eric ✝️🇻🇦🇨🇦🇵🇹 2y ago

Getting the bitcoin to the people was the easy part. Having a local bitcoin adoption with businesses accepting it, etc would have made a world of difference. How do we get there?

Seeker Erebus 2y ago

Trying to pressure existing businesses into accepting bitcoin is a losing strategy. Bitcoiners building businesses that heavily incentivise paying with bitcoin, only trade for it, is the winning one.

The "old guard" (100x returns) bitcoiners taking on the role of venture capitalists could do wonders for that. I also wonder whether there's an investment strategy that could use zap-style fundraising? Yesterday proved pretty convincingly you can precisely track who paid you how much, after all.