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Fiat Shenanigans 🤡🌎 | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 For better or worse, Bitcoin is an honest accounting of financial activity. I would like to force my government to operate in this manner. Imagine if everything they did could be independently audited.
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papafigos | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Yes, that would be awesome, for their spending to be auditable and public (although you don't need a transparent chain for that).

But our finances must not be public for them to see: the power differential is already tremendous in the government's favor - being devoid of privacy towards them only adds to that dynamic, and not in an insignificant way.

Tyrants gonna tyrant however, and it's exactly towards full transparency from the plebs and opaqueness for the State and the elites that things are tilting towards at the moment. And not just in finance either, seems like every month now there is another mass surveillance scandal, they're still trying to kill e2ee, etc.

It's a war of attrition and it's unclear that the line will be held.

I hope so & do whatever I can to help hodl that line, but it's not easy, and it's not right: if we must have government, they should be our servants and have the general well-being in mind.

So why does it feel like it's government itself that's constantly trying to limit me, and treat me like a criminal, for the horrible crime of... wantinf to be left alone?