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234 sats \ 29 replies \ @BlokchainB 5 Nov 2023 \ on: FINCEN MegaThread | Support Bitcoin Privacy Developers | Use Privacy Tools Today bitcoin
👏👏👏 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I see it differently. In my heart I no longer recognize their authority.
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Indeed. Very few people start asking the important question: from where is coming YOUR authority over me?
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.
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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.
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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.
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😂😂 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.
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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.
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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.
But please do not try to impose YOUR way of living over me. I just want to be left alone.
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.
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Can you prove that I am part of the system?
Can you show me the document where I sign up to be a "citizen"?
"Wanting to be alone" means nothing if Genghis Khan knocks at your door to take your stuff.
Are you threatening me?
Are you living in fear?
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Can you prove that I am part of the system? Can you show me the document where I sign up to be a "citizen"?
Doesn't matter. Genghis Khan spear piercing someone doesn't care about what they signed or not.
Are you threatening me?
Threats are just words. I don't care about words. Genghis Khan spear existed objectively in a reality and did not care about 'words'.
Are you living in fear?
And that's why you project power. To live freely without fear. If you project power efficiently you have the privilege to be sovereign. And the reality is that nations projects power more efficient than individuals.
It is what is is. Projecting more power today means living in a higher-level structure like nation.
that's a bit ironic since you're discouraging everyone else here from not participating civilly.
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You can't force somebody to be free.
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wake up neo.
Never will Darth do your thing! Be free my Bitcoin brother
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You can do both.
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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?
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for what? What is the goal?
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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.
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No, that is not the goal. That is a process.
Think again what is the goal.
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It's a complement coinjoin like activity that educates people about coinjoins, and can be used for more privacy.
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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.
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thanks, ill add it to the links
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You are silently consenting if you don't comment ;) ?
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