Tauri

Keep the cypherpunk pirate alive. Or become the enemy.

Rome: Once the economy fragmented and the provinces stopped listening, the emperors turned into paranoid control freaks. Diocletian froze wages and prices by decree, outlawed job mobility, tightened taxation, expanded the secret police, and criminalised dissent. That’s the moment an empire admits it can’t run on consent anymore. Byzantium: As territory shrank and rivals multiplied, the bureaucracy got heavier, censorship expanded, and emperors leaned on religious enforcement to keep people in line. When you don’t have land or money, you try to rule minds instead. Ottoman Empire: Late-stage sultans ramped up internal spying, forced centralisation, and brutal crackdowns on minorities and regions. The Tanzimat reforms look progressive on paper, but underneath they were a desperate attempt to pull autonomy back to Istanbul by force. Russian Empire → USSR: Tsarist Russia collapsed under the weight of censorship, militarised policing, repression of ethnic regions, and a bureaucracy incapable of reform. The USSR did the sequel: the weaker it got, the more it relied on surveillance, internal passports, purges, and tanks in the streets (Budapest, Prague). British Empire: As the colonies slipped away, Britain leaned on emergency acts, martial law, censorship, mass detentions, and public executions. Kenya, Ireland, India — same pattern. The empire talked liberalism and practiced coercion because the voluntary phase was over. The rule is simple. When an empire is rising, it sells vision. When it’s stable, it sells order. When it’s declining, it sells obedience — because it has nothing else to offer. The harder the squeeze, the closer you are to the endgame. Europe is just acting out the script in a modern regulatory suit instead of swords and horses.

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“Bitcoin Core v30 installed the “Problem” component of the “Problem → Reaction → Solution“ chain (Hegelian dialectic) that Elizabeth Warren’s bosses so desperately needed. If default mempool policy widens data payloads (e.g., OP_RETURN from ~80 bytes to very large envelopes), the content-liability lever strengthens. One documented wave of illicit payloads → a policy letter to clouds and ISPs: “Treat non-attested Bitcoin nodes as potential content distributors”. Overnight, most retail and enterprise nodes face terms-of-service risk and vanish, leaving only approved providers. I’ve already written about how Bitcoin’s developers are attacking its sovereign/monetary use. Bitcoin Core v30’s default policy made large arbitrary data easy. They lowered the operational cost of attackers and raised the political payoff for compliance clients and app-store/cloud choke-points. That’s not a protocol break; it’s a governance win against Bitcoin as a Medium-of-Exchange.” - nostr:npub1x9hghmfunry8wcgg8s8w5e3drmkndw92r8qu0cp2l28u32aqqn9q6p6rta