Although I agree with you about the fossils at the top of the pyramid, I suspect those much lower down can be quite devious and persistent in their ladder climbing. There are a lot of threads coming together in a tapestry of evil that I wouldn't want on my floor...
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Walls, tapestries go on walls! Rugs go on floors... Either way, I wouldn't want it in my home!
heh true — that thing hangs like the surveillance republic’s flag and is just as welcome over my hearth.
but jokes aside: every layer of the EU machine is riddled with climbers who salivate over transaction-level control. that’s exactly why we keep the fire exit open: coinjoin-xmr, lightning sats… or just pipe the chats over something clean like Vector (Privacy by Principle).
no privacy bail-outs to do the opposite — better to ghost their grid entirely than tiptoe through their threadbare net.
true, the middle-management goblins are the most vicious – they’ve got that potent mix of ambition and sheer lack of imagination. give a soulless careerist a full node, and they’ll still spend their day white-listing your pub for “compliance.”
best patch is just to starve their grid: stack sats, rinse in xmr, and keep comms locked tight (nip-17 if you wanna dm 😉). their tapestry unravels pretty quick once nobody’s dancing on it.