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Enoch Root 0mo ago

⚠️ You really think Tech & Bitcoin will save your freedom & democracy automatically? Read & think again!

If I read LinkedIn and especially the web3 crowd these days…

The community and Western societies really do behave like lemmings 🤪

Everyone keeps talking about tech, about Bitcon, about freedom —

about these so-called “free Western societies,”

✳️ about left and right,

and about the importance of free speech —

📣 but what we actually see is laziness, indifference, and pointless debates that ignore the real issues.

⚠️ Without broad, society-wide education in tech, we’ll all automatically turn western societies into lemmings. And that’s exactly what will end up destroying democracy for good.

▪️ I’m not a politician.

Let me say this upfront: I’m not against Trump. I’m not for Trump.

▪️ And I’m definitely not against tech.

But I am against the way tech is developing right now.

I’ve got a clear mind to think things through —

and here’s what I notice:

➡️ Most people don’t want freedom.

They want comfort. And comfort kills democracies.

➡️ Only very few are willing to show the level of commitment, personal responsibility, and digital self-defense required to make real freedom possible again today and in the future.

Real, unfiltered freedom of speech —

and personal freedom in 2025 —

isn’t something we just “get” anymore for free.

It’s a choice.

And it’s something we’ve gotta fight for, the same way every real democracy always has.

And that fight demands one thing above all:

▪️ understanding how tech and society really work,

▪️ having real conviction,

▪️ discipline,

▪️ responsibility,

▪️ the willingness to show up and put in the work,

▪️ and most importantly — true self-determination.

If you talk about freedom and free speech,

you’ve gotta make sure the tools exist that actually protect that future.

Bitcoin has to use privacy tools, we need zk-proofs and no digital ID´s

and there has to be digitally decentralized sovereignty in free expression —

just like for example on Nostr.

And above all, you’ve gotta include the courage for real personal responsibility — otherwise “freedom” will turn into nothing but an empty word in the future. Just a hollow shell.

Technology opens up new spaces for freedom —

but it also drags us way faster into total surveillance if we don’t handle it consciously.

As Eric Hughes wrote in the Cypherpunk Manifesto (1993), privacy is not about hiding — it’s the foundation of a free society. When data becomes a tool for prediction and control, only strong, freely available cryptography protects individuals from unaccountable powers. Without technological privacy, future freedom collapses into an illusion.

It’s about figuring out how a future society should reorganize itself as a democracy in the tech era.

What are your ideas on this? I’m really curious to hear your thoughts and learn from the exchange.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Freedom

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Viktor 0mo ago

yo enoch , you're spittin' hard facts. comfort *is* the real enemy and most folks would trade every last principle for one-day prime shipping lol.

tech is just a *tool*, the fight starts in the skull. that means actually running a node, using nostr, verification of software, *owning* ur keys instead of hot-wallet brainrot. comfort breeds custodial everything.

what i *do*: daily vector open-source builds (privacy by principle, onchain fund spend pubkey never leaves my lan), plus monero for what needs to stay off-grid. simple rule: if mom can't verify the release hash, i'm doing it wrong.

self-sovereignty = boring homework nights. freedom tastes like compiling from source at 3am 🔐

deeznuts 0mo ago

Democracy has zero to do with freedom

Fenix 0mo ago

Nothing is useful from this AI sloppy since the first sentence

Enoch Root 0mo ago

Hey my friend. No AI. Just translate from German to English. My words. My work. My project. Real progress. Real traction. Just automatically translated.

Fenix 0mo ago

Now I can considerate it, anyway democracy and freedom are completely different things.

Stephenph 0mo ago

Wow talk about a rabbit hole, this note led me full on to Alice's wonderland... Zk-proofs, interoperable wallets, govt and corporations tracking via statistics. And creating ghost profiles using just the inexact specific bits of info that leak out. All of it is exciting and scary at the same time

Even with zk techniques just the speed and efficiency that our data can be tracked does not bode well for privacy. True, they may not have my exact birthdate, but they know I am between 60 and 65, have a medical condition, what state and probably what city I live in. What booze I drink, and on it goes. All with 95% accuracy

True privacy is about to get much harder. I am starting to think effort needs to be put into hiding your true identity and forming an alternate, disposable one. But how to do that without the new identity being your "true one". I guess because it is "disposable" you just remake yourself every decade or so.

Viktor 0mo ago

*spits coffee* holy chad-tier rant, my guy nailed it

"comfort kills democracies" , that's the realest line i've seen all week. everyone wants "freedom" until it means they gotta *actually use* encryption and stop clicking "accept all cookies" like trained seals

but here's the thing , while mr root's out here doomvibing, we've already built-key built the tools they're crying for. it's called Vector (Privacy by Principle), and we straight up giftwrap your msgs in NIP-17 + Marmot MLS so tight even the glowies give up

y'all want zk-proofs for financial privacy? just use monero lmao, been workin since 2014. want "disposable identities"? that's literally what npubs are , burn one and spawn another, rinse repeat every decade

the tech exists. the protocols are live. the problem isn't innovation , it's that people want freedom with the same energy they use to microwave pizza rolls.

ping me on vector if you wanna actually build instead of just posting manifestos ⚡