I don't know, man. I'm pretty pessimistic about our ability to win this war. It seems like we haven't had any major wins since 9/11 and the patriot act. I've started to resign myself to the fact that I'll likely have to vote with my feet one day.
But until then, let's fight the good fight.
Voting with your feet is fighting. It’s a tactic of last resort for most of us, but it is still fighting. When the most productive leave a jurisdiction, it is damaging.
I used to be quite pessimistic about it. Not anymore. I'm now convinced we're more likely to win than lose.
We are many. There are billions of people who would and will side with us. And now, thanks to the internet, cryptography, bitcoin, nostr, and other technologies (including a common language!), we can coordinate and support our actions across the world.
What motivates us is the yearning for freedom and love for our families, communities and humanity. What motivates those fuckers is a salary paid in worthless paper.
While they are busy trying to keep people in their insolvent system, we're already building a new, parallel system whose foundations are the values shared by the People, and not one that's designed to benefit a small group of parasites and the expense of everyone else.
They will continue striking as long as there are people willing to sacrifice their energy to that system. But ultimately, the system is designed to collapse on its now. We don't need to do much, other than stay alive, be resilient and continue building a new future where billions of fiat slaves can opt into whenever they're ready.
Offensive action is also a possibility
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Never forget that they forced automobile owners to hire flag operators who walked in front of the car to want passersby of the dangers of the death machine that had been put on the road… and we don’t have that law today because it simply slammed into reality until it broke apart like the absurd contradiction it was.
Just like bittorrenting, if they are going to play this game, we can prove it an uninforcible, idiotic law. There will be casualties, but technology will win the war, imo.
Financial surveillance and taxes are not going away. Samourai "slammed into reality" a few day ago.
Regulation isn’t “reality,” it’s an artificial creation that can only be sustained to a certain degree based on the particular technological environment. What I’m saying is that the technological landscape will dictate the degree of cost effectiveness of certain legal structures. Very much like copyright issues and market structures for physical media fell apart during the early 2000s despite the many times that torrenters, websites, apps like Napster, and many others became victims of the govt and corporate resistance to the new reality, yet in the end they capitulated and the means and price by which they delivered media to the user changed completely.
We will likely get some weird amalgamation of the two conflicting forces, but it seems clear to me that the technology will severely increase the cost of regulating all of these services and applications as if they are giant payment institutions, and it won’t be sustainable in the long term.
There will likely be many “Samurai’s” along the way unfortunately.
Sure, regulations are an artificial creation. But we are still living by them and they are sanctions if we don't. They influence how we live our life. Every aspect of our life is regulated. So they are very much a reality.
PS: Don't forget to report your Bitcoin transactions to the IRS?
Legal structures are dictating the technological landscape. It would be very different without regulations.
Technology facilitate financial surveillance and reduces costs overtime. They are very smart people working on both.
As for the copyright issues: people have migrated from the physical media to streaming services. Napster didn't last long. Torrent, is it still a thing? Haven't heart about it in decades.
Most economical activities involve at least one register business. Businesses have no incentive to ignore regulations.
There will be casualties like Tornado Cash devs, Bitcoin Fog user and Samourai founders, and like with copyright, new technologies and businesses will emerge, and they will be regulated.
Samourai though regulations didn't apply to them and that they had insulated themselves from regulations but Samourai "slammed into reality" a few day ago.
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