Nostr

What’s crazy and hard to wrap our head around about bitcoin is how strong the alignment forces are between entities with seemingly opposing ideologies (the state vs the people).

Nakamoto’a main message is: Get on a bitcoin standard or perish. No matter your ideology.

Jason may be a spook (if he wasn’t during his studies, he most certainly is now). Still, his message about projecting kinetic vs electric power as strength is an analogy that spooks can understand. That’s all it is, an analogy.

Why was bitcoin created? To benefit the people. The main question now is: if the US adopts a bitcoin standard (say because they want to project electric power ala Lowery), would that be good for the people?

FarCue 2y ago

It is inevitable that all governments eventually mine bitcoin IMO.

Where I get off the bus is advocating for mathematical equations and code is a 2nd amendment issue because of the numerous attack vectors it opens up.

If restrictions are placed on who can buy, own, manufacture, distribute due to sanctions on the few countries that produce the very machines we need to secure the network we are gifting control to the government.

Individuals and private companies must be allowed to buy and produce equipment like they do currently, and freely interact with one and other and point their hash wherever they so choose.

Consider how the government tramples on the 2nd amendment and the rights of private citizens now, then apply those types of restrictions to bitcoin mining and apply some adversarial thinking.

Hope this has made my position a bit clearer

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Matt 2y ago

I see… so bitcoin core and ASICs are more like speech than firearms, so should be protected under 1st not 2nd.

FarCue 2y ago

Yes and this has already been decided in the PGP case with Phil Zimmerman in the 90s. The government was defeated when they tried to designate encryption as a weapon and ban it from private use.

They need a new attack vector. Hello 2A