Oddbean new post about login | logout This is what happens when people have the idiotic “politics don’t matter” mindset. We allow government to implement KYC so now we are left running around needing to introduce changes to the base later in a reactive manner to address the harms done by KYC. Until ops realize politics does matter we are just gonna be on a hamster wheel reacting to what government does and needing to create freedom tools. The root cause of the problem is policy not lack of privacy in the base layer.
Things won’t improve materially until bitcoiners start wielding political power
People can drink now because we found a political solution to prohibition not because people built more speakeasies
if the political process was an effective way to constrain the state we wouldn't need bitcoin in the first place.
The need for bitcoin in principle has nothing to do with the State and more to do with the limitations of gold. That bitcoin and gold help escape actions made by the government is a tangential benefit. All we have is the political process for what actually matters. Politics is how humans live together. Bukele is the best example of what can be accomplished by wielding political power. Bitcoin didn’t magically fix the rest of the central american countries and it won’t the rest of the world. El Salvador didn’t need another mixing service or monero, it needed good leadership and political action. Same goes for every country
“PoLiTiCs dOnT mAtTeR”
This is the case for MOST things. nostr:nevent1qqsfdn95qa9y3cdktk8lh89jf2677gqv25h54ru4rqkay6dhlcqn6lspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzp00s9mn8qehaaw39tcdvwlt84k2sfr0d2r4cskspe2eez4hy9qklqvzqqqqqqyps4lfv