Miners dont issue Bitcoin
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As long as they are mining it they do. Only in infinitely diminishing amounts. Once a miner has transacted with their mined coin (to anyone but themselves), it has been issued. Over 90% of Bitcoin has mined, and I imagine most of it has been distributed as well.
This isn’t the right way of thinking about it. The miner will always spend the bitcoin for something that is worth it. So bitcoin puts a bounty out in the physical world to provide something that is worth it. Once the network issues the bitcoin to the miner, it is issued and the bounty is created.
More specifically, "to anyone outside of their own economic circle".
This is a hypothetical clause which would imply that, "if I mined Bitcoin, and sent it to my friend Vic, who knows I want him to hold on to it for me, and he's never going to send it to someone outside of our authority, and we NEVER EXCHANGE IT FOR ANYTHING,"
then it remains unissued.
However when someone transacts Bitcoin to someone else with the intention of no longer possessing it, that is when Bitcoin has been issued.
The next person is thus the issuer of that particular set of Bitcoin.
So miners are not the only issuers, because peer-to-peer money enables us to BECOME issuers.
But they are the "origin" of Bitcoin and procure 100% of it for us to redistribute.
So perhaps it is semantically a bad choice of words. But I believe the point is valid. I'll explore this further.
Would change this to procure(d) because I don't mean to overstep the relationship between historical mining and present mining and future lack-of-mining
tl;dr
"Prove that Bitcoin is not owned & operated by the global shadow government."
You can't.
Even if it isn't, it's going to be. Why wouldn't it? Governments can deploy CBDC faster than individuals can establish an IBDC.
Until the world reforms its stance on accumulation of wealth, versus accumulation of value, we are at a loss. The borrower is always slave to the lender.
Regardless of which currency you choose to transact in.