Pridobivanje brezplačnih stvari stane bogastvo

To je uredniško mnenje avtorja Andrew Keir, an author of a daily newsletter, where he dives deeply into the transformational nature of Bitcoin.

Ta članek je nastal na podlagi tvita osebe Guy Swann, »Pridobivanje brezplačnih stvari stane celo premoženje«, ki natančno povzema trenutno stanje pod fiksnim denarnim sistemom: sistemom, ki omogoča neskončno povečevanje denarnih enot v rokah majhnih, mafiji podobnih kartelov in pri na račun ostalega.

Ta dinamika me spomni na drug citat iz Jeff Booth to je nekaj v smislu,

»Izobilje denarja vodi v pomanjkanje povsod drugje. Pomanjkanje denarja vodi v obilje povsod drugje.«

Tako kot se je zgodilo Rimljanom, ko so neodgovorno napihnili denarij, se trenutno dogaja isto z ameriškim dolarjem in vsemi drugimi fiat shitcoini, ki obstajajo. Škodo, ki jo povzroča razdiranje družbe, bodo zgodovinarji proučevali v prihodnjih letih.

It’s so counterintuitive. Most people have no understanding of money or the monetary system and they just blindly trust the lunatics in government. They have no idea that the ability to give out stimulus checks and just hand out money with bailouts is actually the very thing that is harming them most. It’s distorting all natural incentives provided by a free-market dynamic and creating dire unwanted externalities which create alternate incentives that are much, much worse than what would be output otherwise if the market were simply allowed to do what it does best, which is solve myriad complexity in the most supreme way we know how.

To izkrivljanje spodbud nas globoko pokvari s psihološkega vidika in pokvari našo vrednostno strukturo, skozi katero tečejo vse informacije, ko sprejemamo odločitve in se poskušamo orientirati v svetu.

Najbolj očitna manifestacija tega je kinetična vojna. Obstajajo veliko manj očitni primeri, čeprav vam ni treba trdo iskati, da bi jih videli. Ta teden sta se v ZDA zgodili dve stvari, ki sta primera te motnje, ki jo doživljamo.

The FBI Raided The Home Of Former U.S. President Donald Trump.

The raiding of a former president’s house is absolutely obscene and should give you chills. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know all the details. I’m not sure anyone really does at this point, but It has some spooky John F. Kennedy vibes about it, and it looks to be a deeply political act at its core, further highlighting how far the U.S. establishment has fallen and how far it has drifted from having any kind of moral compass.

Ministrstvo za finance ZDA je odobrilo programsko opremo, imenovano Tornado Cash

Malo mi je mar za Ethereum, ampak sankcioniranje odprtokodne programske opreme je nekaj brez primere. Ne gre za osebo ali poslovni subjekt; to je preprosto informacija na temeljni ravni. Informacij ni mogoče sankcionirati. Ni ga mogoče poklicati na sodišče. To je namenjeno vsem Američanom, ki iščejo zasebnost. Posledice tega so bile do zdaj številne: zamrznitev sredstev s strani centraliziranih in reguliranih subjektov in ustanovitelj Tornado Cash je začasno ustavil svoje skladišče github, kar je preprosto cenzura informacij, kode. Žal je verjetno, da najhujše šele prihaja.

Moja glavna ugotovitev iz tega je, da je ameriška vlada pravkar opozorila svoje državljane. Ne verjamejo, da imate pravico do zasebnosti. Z zasebnostjo želijo ravnati, kot da je nekaj kriminalnega in zloveščega. To je neposreden napad na državljane ZDA, vendar je malo verjetno, da je to stališče omejeno na ZDA. Zdi se zelo verjetno, da bodo številni drugi manjši "zavezniki" sledili temu in se postavili v vrsto.

Kaj to pomeni za Bitcoin?

To še enkrat kaže, do katere ravni bo šla država, da te obdrži kot podrejenega sužnja. Če je koda govor, potem to kaže na popolno neupoštevanje vsake njegove svobode in je očiten opomin na potrebo po resnični decentralizaciji in kritično naravo skrbništva nad samim seboj.

Decentralizacija nam nudi možnost odstranitve posameznih točk napake, kot so izmenjave. Borze so regulirani subjekti in kot vidimo v tem primeru, bodo takoj pokleknile. Naredili bodo, kar se jim reče.

If you opt to use bitcoin in such a way where you allocate trust to an exchange to take custody of your bitcoin, it is important you understand the risk you are taking. The reality is, that bitcoin is no longer yours. All you have is an IOU, and under extreme adversarial conditions, as with this current example, that IOU will not be redeemable for your bitcoin. What could have been fuck-you money, will become fuck-me money.

I can’t speak to the properties of shitcoin mixing services like the one in question, but bitcoin mixing can imply a custodial service. One where you relinquish custody of your bitcoin. If you use a mixing service, you are sending your bitcoin to a third party and hoping to receive someone else’s bitcoin back. CoinJoins on the other hand are collaborative transactions which leverage the core properties of the Bitcoin protocol — that being self-custody — to provide you with a powerful tool to improve your privacy while not compromising the trust model which Bitcoin affords.

Vsaka enota, ki je centralizirana – pa naj bo skrbniška storitev mešanja ali katera koli druga – je ena sama točka odpovedi in se ji je treba izogibati. Zaupajte tem na lastno nevarnost.

The question remains: If open-source software can be sanctioned, can Bitcoin be sanctioned, given that it is simply free, open-source software, too?

As mentioned above, open-source software cannot really be sanctioned. Can people using certain software be targeted? While the notion of such a thing seems completely insane, the answer of course is yes, but it becomes more a question of how can that be enforced. If the U.S. Treasury said tomorrow Bitcoin is sanctioned, what they are really saying is you are sanctioned from using Bitcoin. They would be criminalizing the transmission of scarce information. Despite how absurd that sounds, it’s worth considering the possibility given this recent development.

In this instance, any bitcoin custodied by regulated third parties vanishes and would be under the control of the government. That is the most obvious point of capture. Any single points of failure become targets. Assume failure. Even with that, Bitcoin would remain. The network would continue to produce blocks and facilitate transactions, which highlights the critical nature of running a node. If there were only a few nodes, then the potential may exist to capture and shut down the network, but there are tens of thousands of nodes and this number is growing every day. In addition, the nodes are geographically distributed throughout every corner of the planet. The realistic probability of shutting down every one of those, while it is not zero, would likely be close to it.

The Bitcoin network would endure such attacks and, ultimately, it would become stronger. But how individuals use bitcoin would have significant ramifications on individual Bitcoiners. Which brings us back to the critical nature of privacy: If you have a high level of privacy, you cannot be targeted as easily. If the majority of users have a high level of privacy, such an action becomes almost unenforceable. A powerful asymmetry would exist and render any attempts to sanction or outlaw it as futile.

obstajajo 437,000,000 novih razlogov to ensure you custody the keys to your bitcoin, and there are many future Bitcoiners learning this lesson the hard way right now.

Bitcoin was designed to operate under adversarial conditions. There is little the government can do to attack the Bitcoin protocol, which makes it unlikely they would try. They would simply attack the users: us. Acknowledge the game board and act accordingly. Privacy is not just a right, it is critical. Everything is downstream of privacy and it is a central piece of the fortune you pay for getting things for free.

Remember: Freedom is not given, it is taken. Bitcoin empowers you to take yours.

Popravite denar, popravite svet.

To je gostujoča objava Andrewa Keira. Izražena mnenja so v celoti njihova lastna in ne odražajo nujno mnenj BTC Inc. ali Bitcoin Magazine.