No, Satoshi needed to be anon. He was birthing system-destroying new freedom tech. He was the ultimate spy.
We are not spies. We are soldiers. And you want the enemy to see the size of your army and decide to negotiate peacefully.
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Hummmm... But spies don't build stuff.
I think that we are neither spies nor soldiers, we are builders.
There's this paradigm of war, and now I think that I understand where you're coming from. The State thinks like this, in terms of war. But we do not confront, we don't play the game.
Try to think differently and see it as "we fuck off to build new stuff and we don't want anyone to follow us."
A breakaway society that grows from within the legacy zombie old world.
We are above them. The OPsec measures are only necessary while they still have power, but we already won.
We are way above them.
I agree with this — war is only one lens through which to view it.
But the metaphor isn’t important.
The point is while some people really do need to be anonymous, on the whole it’s bad game theory. For each anon individual, it’s helps them in the short term to evade the wrath of the state. But by being anonymous, you perpetuate its frame and empower it.
That’s why they censor and why they punish those who speak out: because they want people hiding and afraid. They don’t want people openly defying them.
If you’re the deep state you want a fearful and hiding population, only dissenting in secret. Last thing you want are people doing it out in the open because that’s contagious.