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Remember Remember, The 5th of November…Remember Remember, The 5th of November…
Please forgive the pomp as I step up to this virtual soapbox for a little 5th of November chat.
You’re sitting at home, looking for something to do while you wait for your favorite TV show to come on this evening.
You've got time to kill.
Why not give FINCEN and the Treasury Department a good Yellin-g for their presumptive assertion over your right to transact privately. (You have less than 78 days from the time of this post, to make a comment. Anyone can comment, and comment privately. Current comment count stands at 768.)
Better still, why not use that time to learn Bitcoin privacy best practices? That’s right anon, today, you’ve been activated, called up for general mobilization in the fight for the sovereign individual.
Some of you may remember the last time we went through this 3 years ago. Trump & Mnuchin tried to pull a fast one on us as they were exiting stage right, but failed.
Well the Biden admin is trying to do the same thing again, spear headed by Yellen and the Treasury Department/FINCEN. Welcome to the eternal struggle.
The powers that be have taken it upon themselves to acquire one more inch of your-selves. Do not give them your silent consent.
Proposed FINCEN regulations surrounding Bitcoin privacy tools will not have the effect regulators desire. They will only serve to further drive the concerning activities further underground, where they will achieve full actualization beyond their control. Long term, they embolden the very concerns they hope to suppress. Furthermore, I do not respect their sub-textual assertion of sovereignty over our right to financial privacy.
Without economic freedom you cannot have political freedom. By attempting to capture this economic freedom in a surveillance blackbox at FINCEN, they will only galvanize a force against their public offices.
Representatives Who Have Volunteered to be on Our Shit List:
Treasury Department's General Phone Number: (202) 622-2000
Janet Yellen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecYellen
US Treasury Twitter: https://twitter.com/USTreasury
Take your right to transact, to transact privately, explicitly, without apology and with righteous authority.
You are not consumers or the governed. You are The Citizenry.
Act in good faith, be worthy of your freedoms.
What you can do:
There are four activities that are worthy of your attention today. Choose just one, and then do a second one if you have the time, and comment with which one you did. The first is less meaningful than the second, third and fourth.
Submit a comment to the treasury department regarding their misguided attempt at regulating/suppressing Bitcoin privacy enhancing transactions. These rules only serve to ban their fiat institutions from participating in this ecosystem. Anyone can comment, and comment anonymously. Some example templates of comments submitted include:Submit a comment to the treasury department regarding their misguided attempt at regulating/suppressing Bitcoin privacy enhancing transactions. These rules only serve to ban their fiat institutions from participating in this ecosystem. Anyone can comment, and comment anonymously. Some example templates of comments submitted include:
- https://twitter.com/FractalEncrypt/status/1719440960281575907
- https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1719025440663261376
- https://gist.github.com/skwp/16c668bbb96e17f9176d6d4d39cc79fd
- Or, consider submitting a copy of the Cypherpunk Manifesto for the record. Also, Read It: https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
The more meaningful act you can do is learn how to use Bitcoin privacy tools. Do a coinjoin and/or payjoin today with joinmarket! Do a payjoin transaction today with a friend! Learn about the benefits and trade offs of privacy enhancing Bitcoin tools like paynym’s, atomic swaps, lightning, and coin selection practices.The more meaningful act you can do is learn how to use Bitcoin privacy tools. Do a coinjoin and/or payjoin today with joinmarket! Do a payjoin transaction today with a friend! Learn about the benefits and trade offs of privacy enhancing Bitcoin tools like paynym’s, atomic swaps, lightning, and coin selection practices.
Buy and sell your Bitcoin KYC free, Peer to Peer.
Also, lobby Bitcoin wallet developers to fully support payjoins, coin selection, and other privacy tools.
If you want to go a step farther, you could use a combination of these tools and have the coins sent to a SATSCARD or Opendime. This could then be swapped with a friend or group of friends in person for an equivalent amount of Bitcoin for an in person, offchain, ghost coinjoin. There are now countless Bitcoin conferences and local meetups happening all over the world. It would be great if these events coordinated such privacy enhancing activities. Example physical in-person coinjoin event.
The third thing you can do is fund open source developers who work on maintaining and improving privacy enhancing tools today. There will be crowdfunders out there on this issue. But more than likely these will raise money for lawyers and lobbyists, who will only talk to senators and congressmen in Washington.The third thing you can do is fund open source developers who work on maintaining and improving privacy enhancing tools today. There will be crowdfunders out there on this issue. But more than likely these will raise money for lawyers and lobbyists, who will only talk to senators and congressmen in Washington.
This is a horrible use of funds.
Rather, Please, directly support developers who are working on the tools we use today for onchain and offchain Bitcoin privacy.
A decent list of Bitcoin developers and their Bitcoin donation addresses can be found at https://bitcoindevlist.com (Be sure to support the ones working on Bitcoin Privacy Tools)
If you want to send sats via the lightning network to a general fund for this purpose, you can use this page that I maintain to donate sats. I will be sending all collected funds to Bitcoin privacy tool maintainers and developers.
But be warned, this platform (geyser) takes a 2% cut, and I could rug pull this donation page at any time. If you don’t want to trust me, then verify by donating directly to developers, not third party middlemen like geyser or myself.
Learn the benefits of running a Bitcoin node. Run one, not just for your privacy, but your overall Bitcoin sovereignty. It’s very easy to run a node. You install a program (usually bitcoin core) and let it run. That’s it. This can be done on windows, linux and mac.Learn the benefits of running a Bitcoin node. Run one, not just for your privacy, but your overall Bitcoin sovereignty. It’s very easy to run a node. You install a program (usually bitcoin core) and let it run. That’s it. This can be done on windows, linux and mac.
Go a step further by verifying the binaries of the bitcoin node program you download.
Go a step further by building Bitcoin Core from source.
Go a step further by running the node over tor or i2p.
Go a step further by running a BIP324 node (which will be available in the next release of Bitcoin Core).
Thank you for reading and participating in this civil protest. Whether it’s making a comment to FINCEN, phoning your representative, using Bitcoin privacy tools, or just learning about your options to run a Bitcoin node, any of these small steps are ones in the right direction. Any one of these small acts matters. You don't have to do all of them. Just one. Take your pick.
Thank You.
Onward.
Reddit thread for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/Gy7O7scPd6
👏👏👏 great post I do all these things and I may also add write your senators as well. As bitcoiners we must remember, you might not care about politics but politics cares about you. This FinCen proposal confirms it! All the KYC/AML laws that limit our freedom can be changed.
Writing to politicians is totally useless and childish. Is like a kid writing to his parents to lift the grounding.
Stop being a child, act as an adult. Stop begging priviliges to a politician. Be a fucking man, a sovereign individual that dorsn't give a fuck about what politicians says or do.
I have to go along with @DarthCoin on this. I really love the post, and I agree with most of it, but "makng a comment" has become a farce at this point. They probably sit around and make jokes as they read them. Furthermore, you might doxx yourself. Unelected bureaucrats have made congress a sham. Laws are made by regulation now. Your advice about using privacy tools is excellent.
You don't know either way if a comment makes a difference or not. It likely won't, but again, you don't know. what if yours is the linchpin?
if you don't want to be doxxed, don't use your name to submit your comment or your IP (use a VPN/tor/I2P). You're allowed.
In any case, the spirit of the post acknowledges that a comment is low on the totem poll of things to do. Go do the other three things mentioned.
I am already a big fan of the privacy measures you mention. Regarding the comments, after getting your reply I realized that I no longer want to play the game. It's not a criticism of your post or opinion. For me, I have had a lifetime of playing the game. The truth is I don't want to validate the process by participating in it. I don't believe individuals have the power to change the system. The idea of a U.S. democracy is a charade. That's just my opinion. You are entitled to yours. For the record, I hope you're right and I'm wrong.
that's the problem. its Schrodinger's cat. we're both right and wrong at the same time. so the only option is to play the game and act in good faith in the hope that it matters. to do otherwise is to give your silent consent.
I see it differently. In my heart I no longer recognize their authority.
Indeed. Very few people start asking the important question: from where is coming YOUR authority over me?
https://thelawdictionary.org/authority/
Authority must be given with consent, not taken by force. You are an ex-lawyer and you know it very well. A power of attorney / authority MUST be given.
I was LITERALLY in a court room and I asked the judge: Please provide me any document signed by me and consented that I gave the authority over me, the living man, to anybody in this room.
I asked 3 times. And I get only silence. The judge closed the case and everybody went home.
https://i.postimg.cc/QCKLXyX7/recycle-bin-politicians.jpg
Say that to North Koreans are are completely getting crushed by communism. Or go say that to Gaza who’s constantly being bombed or the Ukrainians in a war.
This idea of sovereign individual in peace and everything is working is great but once society breaks down how sovereign are you really??
This idea that politics doesn’t matter and you can build some citadel in the forest is laughable.
If people gather together and vote and say yep we are going to plunder and steal everything we can then boom everything you ever worked for is stolen from you. Ask the Native Americans about that.
Your lack of knowledge into this matter is disturbing.... Watch and learn, please. https://www.bitchute.com/channel/sovereignman/
Otherwise, just be a shitzen slave, I don't care. Vote harder... I can't force you to be free. You choose to be a shitizen, is your choice. https://i.postimg.cc/Cx1Z6mB8/vote-harder.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Kz3vS74B/darth_cbdc_compliance.jpg
😂😂 this video just hammers all the negative aspects of governments but not a single mention of the positive aspects government have done.
So they reference the constitution and how others are given “authority” over others
Now let’s switch the constitution with the bitcoin white paper.
And on SN you made yourself the authority against shitcoiners. Why should shitcoiners obey and follow the consensus rules if they feel if they are too restrictive? They shouldn’t they should be free but yet you mock and ridicule them for being out of the Bitcoin consensus.
The constitution, the bitcoin white paper they are both ideas to help humans live peacefully and not harm one another as the time we have in this universe is incredibly short. Both have different mechanisms on how they operate and how they punish for those who don’t act in good faith.
I understand you are 100% against the state and 100% for the sovereignty of the individual but as with anything that sort of living has tradeoffs and throughout history we have countless examples of humans living a sovereign life only for other humans to form in a large enough group with better technology completely dominate the sovereign group because they have the numbers and power to do so.
Is simple: if you want to live a statist life, obeying any government or so called "law", go for it. I have nothing against your choice.
But please do not try to impose YOUR way of living over me. I just want to be left alone.
But that's the thing. You cannot unsubscribe from power projection game. And as a individual you are embedded into nations power-struggles system whether you like it or not.
Native americans also wanted to be left alone. Did it work for them? You are as free/sovereign as long as you can project power to protect your freedom. "Wanting to be alone" means nothing if Genghis Khan knocks at your door to take your stuff.
Game theory has no mercy. Nations emerged to project power more efficiently that any individual could. If you don't play that game, other players that do will knock at your door and take your stuff.
Obviously you might not care about the game. And that's fine. But "not caring about the game" does not mean that you unsubscribed from that game.
Can you prove that I am part of the system? Can you show me the document where I sign up to be a "citizen"?
Are you threatening me? Are you living in fear?
that's a bit ironic since you're discouraging everyone else here from not participating civilly.
You can't force somebody to be free.
Never will Darth do your thing! Be free my Bitcoin brother
You can do both.
what do you think about coordinating mass offchain coinjoins via satscards/opendime for in person swaps? Would this be feasible for you at your local meetup/conference?
example: https://medium.com/@Fiach_dubh/off-chain-bitcoin-swaps-with-the-satscard-942b31243c8b
for what? What is the goal?
No onchain footprint of a coinjoin taking place. ie, its a swap of equivalent sats between two or more parties. It's really just swapping private keys.
think a literal fish bowl and keys.
The goal is fun with Bitcoin privacy.
No, that is not the goal. That is a process. Think again what is the goal.
It's a complement coinjoin like activity that educates people about coinjoins, and can be used for more privacy.
I wrote here about Bitcoin and privacy. Is more than just a meaningless coinjoin. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-and-privacy
I personally don't give a shit about what FinCen says or do.
You are silently consenting if you don't comment ;) ?
I'm not an American citizen but I'm affected by your politics just like the rest of the world. Despite your corrupt government and ruling class, I admire the wisdom and courage of your founding fathers that give you today the tools to keep fighting against tirany just like they did. Many other countries have lost these fundamental rights and feeedoms. So you're in the front-line to fight this war and I encourage the most brave of you to take advantage of the tools you have to keep up fighting. The rest of the world will be forever grateful.
I am always surprised when people outside the U.S. express this sentiment. I used to be young and idealistic. I thought if only Jefferson had won those arguments against Hamilton things would be better. I guess there still exists some state autonomy. You can move from California to Texas and experience a concrete improvement.
Shouldn't be "or", it's good idea to enable both at the same time for Bitcoin Core (or Knots).
Done. https://pic8.co/sh/cadaMR.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/cL6W1WWv/Politicians.jpg
imagine if your act of nihilism was the linchpin to it all
To give Darth some relief, it was mainly a verbal statement to stop taking what's left of our freedoms owing to their poor decisions, leading to the devaluation of the dollar and the rise of (real) money like Bitcoin.
I'm fully expecting them to not give a shit.
wat
Thank You.
I understand and respect your position and the fact that you are trying to fight back against the system. Only that your "method weapons" are not the right ones.
My counter arguments to this video is this one:
Remember remember, the 5th of november was actually a plot against freedom and against people, not the hero actions you are looking for....
That mask is a false idea of a "hero"... please stop using it.
I am baffled that bitcoiners embrace this character and mask as it would be something good, fightning for freedom, when in fact is exactly the opposite.
Be aware not to fall into this trap. "The masters" are trying to control the narrative, to create false heroes.
Celebrating 5th of Nov as it would be the day "against the gov", just make me laugh. Is exactly the opposite, is celebrating how a gov secret service, infiltrated into people groups, is plotting exactly against their freedom... (what is actually doing today (NSA/CIA/FBI etc)
Here is explained in details, what really happened. https://wearechange.org/guy-fawkes-gun-powder-plot-false-flags-shaped-history/
Beware of how they create the false flags. Guy Fawkes was a false hero, was a false flag situation.
if you praise Guy Fawkes you are literally praising the lies behind that plot. You are not praising the truth. Those wearing Guy Fawkes masks are exactly like those poor young guys wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt and they have no idea what is the real communism. Just laughable.
Also many people ignore that fact that the events organized by Guy Fawkes were the precedent that follow in 1666.
The nigh of London fire...
Study more the history of those times, about Cestui Que Vie Act 1666 that literally created suddenly the slavery of all people, converting them in dead corporations (vessels).
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/true_and_complete_break_down_of and here https://www.zeropointuniversity.com/blog/unveiling-the-cestui-que-vie-act-of-1666 and here https://areweallreallyeducated.com/the-cestui-que-vie-act-of-1666/
We all want heroes to follow, but heroes are only in kids story books and hollywood movies. The only hero is You, the sovereign individual that is OUT of the system.
5th of November is not a reason to celebrate or revolt, is a sad day for all humanity, the day when was plotted against freedom, full of lies and false flags.
The masters want you to behave like that so they can control the narrative with false heroes.
- About begging to politicians, I am strongly suggest to watch this short video about the myth of authority.
Stop behaving like a grounded kid, begging to be forgiven, act as an adult and REBUT any authority over you, the living man.
view on www.youtube.comtalk about missing the point.
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TOTALLY USELESS
like your comments. Fuck off.
@remindme 1 year let's see if your plan (writing letters to politicians) worked 😂😂😂😂 you are so childish.
You need to hear this for your own sake. You're an asshole. Go Fuck Yourself.
https://i.postimg.cc/13NNHkbr/asshole.jpg
ya thats not what happened here. you acted in bad faith throughout. fuck off
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