Couldn't care less about the drama, and in fact, drama-attracting profiles is one thing that REALLY puts me off and drives me away. But if you take a look, that's not at all what happened.
I think it hasn't even started.
I think the Peaky Blinders character of Major Chester Campbell must be one of the most thoroughly despicable irredeemable villains in recent TV fiction history.
It's really remarkable how the writers achieved the creation of a character that totally and completely fails to elicit the tiniest sliver of empathy, even though they do give us some potential justification for it.
Yeah, 43 minutes in, I've had to stop. I'll try to explore the topic without the lunacy.
I took the post seriously and started to watch the "How the system operates" video. 22 minutes in, the "etymology master class" starts with an analysis of the word "corporation", which is broken down as "corp(se)" + "oration".
I'm a linguist by training and that single point is so fuckin wrong and outlandish (well, the bit about "Is your name written in black ink? YOU SEE, YOU'RE DEAD" kind of gave me a hint), that even though I will continue to watch the content, I have now switched to "hard skepticism" mode.
Once again I clarify: so far I've never used or even bought Monero.
But given that no one in the Bitcoin ecosystem seems to take this issue seriously and coherently, it's becoming the most obvious way to at anonymize my whole UTXO set at least once.
From then on, I will proceed with a new bitcoin-only modus operandi, but I need a reset.
Seriously considering it now.
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There is an inordinate number of true blood grifters among bitcoin maximalist "influencers" and "industry leaders". It's a simple statement of fact.
You mean the hundreds of billions of dollars that the IS government has spent subsidizing the US arms manufacturers and dealers, which they then send to Ukraine in exchange for deals for the US banks and asset managers?
Hold on, isn't the condition that they do not have extradition treaties with *any of the commie countries* like US, *or* China, *or* Russia?
Or just to the US?
Just as he was totally wrong when he thought Bitcoin could work as electronic cash, Satoshi was totally wrong when he presented the concept of a decentralized, public blockchain with full transparency as a solution to counter the corruption of the Corporatist State fiat mafia, in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.
The way you counter the Corporatist mafia is not by making a fully transparent ledger that THEY can use to track US down, but to give US full anonymity, so we can opt out of THEIR corrupt system.
As with the failed cash experiment, irrational maximalists will rather keep wasting millions in value developing dead ends to vindicate a wrong idea, and will keep putting people at personal, physical and financial risk, instead of simply accepting that Bitcoin is a resounding success as electronic property and store of value, and the fact that it will only stay like that of we have full anonymity.
Work on that, stop wasting time and resources on stupid shit, and find ways to lead bitcoiners OUT of the system.
With citizens with your reasoning ability, it is to be expected that the gangs in power do whatever the fuck they want to us.
The chance that they allow them to get away from this is basically zero.
We all knew if was coming.
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Also obviously, the obligation to report opens the door to fining people for not doing it, or for doing it "wrong", which is also a significant source of revenue, especially now that all centralized exchanges snitch on their clients, and all bank transactions are also recorded and reported by banks.
Reporting of ANY amount of crypto holdings is compulsory by law in Spain. So far, just holding is not taxable, but obviously if they want to know, it's because they intend to tax, eventually.
I don't recall one single instance of a Western government in the last 80 years rolling back one single law or regulation that suppressed individual privacy and freedom.
It is true that there have been very significant reforms improving certain individual social freedoms, but if you pay attention, they have always been conceptualized as "the individual as part of so and so collective".
Namely, women, homosexuals and, where applicable, racial and ethnonational minorities or groups (this last category, not so much, universally).
All the while, true individual, thus universal and truly collective, freedoms have been and continue to be completely decimated and, even worse, culturally condemned.
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By the way, I'm born and raised in the old town -- six generations documented in this city. I can speak from direct experience. I chose to come back only because I am a literal expat, meaning I am employed by a foreign company with expat conditions. Otherwise, as a local? No fucking way.
It's just as you said, a lab experiment. Remember that Maragall, when he worked under Franco's mayor Porcioles, had already spent time "learning" in the US, and for decades after during his mandates and after all of Barcelona's mayors have had that type of international unelected cabal-like organization connections. It's been their sales pitch as a posterchild of international progressivism (socialism), in fact.
I could write a fucking book, but meh.