A regulator voted to give itself more power and control? What a surprise.

I use both.

A great way to study the morality of commies, and not much else.

Compliance, compliance, compliance. The government's favorite word.

When I think about your worst case (which I do from time to time) I always come back to: "What is happening to USD during all this?" Will people just bend over and take hyperinflation? Maybe so, but like Christine said, if there is an escape that escape will be used. Anyways, it's interesting to think about.

The 1st, 3rd, and 5th options are all the same.

Imagine having done hard time in prison for years for a marijuana crime and then reading this news.

Bitcoin has always been, and will always be black market money. Banning makes it more powerful.

Thanks! Yeah, I meant GitHub.

I guess Satoshi is the ultimate example to aspire to. Whatever he did to remain pseudonymous seems to have worked.

There is always a point on the road to totalitarianism where government becomes obsessed with identification ("papers, please"). Sadly we are at that point.

Good points. Do VPNs like Mullvad solve this? It seems like decentralized git alternatives are also necessary now.

Devs need to be nyms only. I'm amazed that isn't the norm yet.

I never knew F.A. was such a dope lyricist.

"That is the actress Salma Hayek......and she never said those things..."

-- Abraham Lincoln

The time for civil disobedience is here.

Bitcoin is a dire threat to the state. They wouldn't be doing this otherwise. They know it takes away the seniorage, power, and control that fiat gives them. There will be a final reconning, this has been true since Satoshi mined the genesis block.

Now is the time to remember: they are losing and they know it. The dollar is losing its reserve status. The US government is run by a senile puppet controlled by pedos. The equally corrupt and incompetent government is spiraling into totalitarianism, surrounded on all sides by threats like free speech, the internet, failing institutions, collapse of trust, encryption, and most of all Bitcoin. This is the moment it was created for.

A poll in 1990 about the Internet would have been identical.

It's the big LSPs that need to be worried. They are easy targets. The government is doing a great job of keeping bitcoin/lightning decentralized.

Ironically the samurai guys are always talking negatively about lightning.

It is inevitable that the state will attack bitcoin in every way it can. It's not inevitable that it will win. Given the first part, keeping a low profile, not bragging about enabling illegal actions online for example, is important. Bitcoin is censorship resistant, key word resistant. The level of that resistance is affected by behavior.

About a year. It's awesome. Hardest thing I've ever done. It is good motivation to do all the other stuff.