@justin_shocknet your new friend has showed up here, lol.
She mentions a high chance of election near the end of the interview, around 33-34 minutes.
Her party is 597 - there are some tweets, and interviews on You Tube from Surinamese TV -
597 Board -
ABC Suriname interview (Dutch, can be translated in settings)
STVS Suriname interview (Dutch, can be translated in settings)
The Suriname Decentralised Conference (7-9 November) covers Bitcoin and Nostr.
@justin_shocknet - maybe consider contacting them about doing a Shocknet presentation ?
honestly, having scrolled thru various threads of late, i got the impression there wasn't any real organic enthusiasm for another 'feature fork' - the whole taproot thing being associated with all the ordinals/inscriptions garbage that everyone hates is probably the cause of that.
it didn't seem like it was even broad anti fork feelings as such, more of a reluctance to risk more 'unintended consequences' for something that may or may not be 'nice', but doesn't feel particularly imperative/urgent - in contrast, segwit was a long battle, but it got tied up with a cause - ie the narrative of fighting a hostile takeover- that made people rally to it.
you can't fake it to make it though, so if there isn't a 'vital' feel around it, it's probably not going to gain momentum, or attract interest in that way.
just sayin
looks like they ditched the raining ticker tape animation for a completed donation - just a boring static image now, boo!
given the noise being made by the EU and UK around Musk and X recently, it's most likely them behind it.
people use these platforms to circulate anti government information and to organise in groups - it's a reactionary, authoritarian effort by governments to try to impede the rising tide of revolt that is sweeping across seemingly ever larger areas of the world - while it's true that other possibilities exist for people to communicate and organise, the widespread use of these platforms means governments understand that banning will have an effect of limiting, albeit for a short time, the ability of people to mobilise in revolt against their states.
The UK unrest has been brewing for a long time - the native population has been exploited and browbeaten over their increasing resistance to mass immigration, multiculturalism (which is balkanisation by any other name), and the rainbow cult undermining their way of life for years, (actually decades), now.
The new Prime Minister, Kier Starmer of the widely reviled Labour party, is being labelled 'Two Tier Kier' because of his blatant and repeated pandering to the ever growing immigrant cohort - the Labour party are widely known to import their vote - and after months now of immigrant 'protests' , and an endless stream of 'refugees' being ferried into the country, which receive nothing but indulgence, the native population are beginning to flare up in demonstrations against immigration related issues - and the new government response has been police violence, condemnation and slander of the natives in crackdowns that are further enraging the native people in light of the disparity of treatment between their actions and those of the immigrants.
There is a festering sore of resentment in particular around the government attitude to muslims - they are fawned over - in a country which has seen mass rape, election fraud and terrorist attacks on the natives committed by muslims, again across decades, and the blatant pandering by the government and police is igniting them into furious action.
yes, they can, and are some of the techniques i'm alluding to - they are, however, not 'baked in' aspects of Bitcoin, and require the deliberate participation of the user to be advantaged by them.
This reads like a combination of a smear, and an attempt at 'shaming' of exactly the type the author tries to deride 'right-wing' people in expressing, with a nod to ecash projects (that you mustn't criticise 'because brown people' lol) mixed in with the desire to claim ('appropriate'?) Bitcoin on behalf of a partisan leftist sensibility.
the govt is only one concern relating to privacy - the techniques users employ to act more freely have to be developed, (and utilised) , to in any way usefully address them - merely stating something is not enough.
only biological machinery working here - and while your position may be useful to you, it's surely far from the case for the majority of holders/users interacting with the chain.
(i see you edited your comment from 'like a machine', to 'like a timid' - neither of which apply).
As has been previously stated in other discussions here, and more broadly, a lot (most ?) held Bitcoin has been through a KYC process in it's acquisition, so any on chain activity is by default tied to the legal fiction ID of the holder - apart from that, there is the also the transparent nature of the blockchain, and the default ability to monitor the amounts, activity, and any grouping of other outputs in the sending of transactions (the 'clustering' that Chain analysis companies routinely sift the blockchain to collect) of Bitcoin transacted on chain, unless the user deliberately employs techniques to obfuscate any/some of these aspects - so on chain in particular privacy is weak at best both in relation to ID and to activity using Bitcoin for most people - then there is the potential leaking of location in the broadcasting of a TX unless the user employs other techniques to obfuscate that - it's far from a simple situation, and many people are no doubt revealing far more about themselves and their actions than they would prefer, or perhaps even realise.
Shocknet - https://shock.network/ - are on the cusp of Nostr-fying LN with their development, esp Lightning Pub -
https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub
Also, LNVPN - https://lnvpn.com/ - no Subscription, no KYC VPN service paid for over LN for as little as the sats equivalent of 10 Cents for an hour, (or by day/week/month/quarter) - great to get round geo blocks or to help cover your tracks.