I believe bitVM can be used to create a decentralized, non-KYC Bitcoin exchange.
I call it Know No Customer (KNC). Itβs a simple idea, but I think it will work.
"At what point do we respond? At what point do they see our response? At what point do they stop marching off our developers to prison, and at which point do we start taking their authorities away?
Because that is what #Bitcoin is set out to do."
- Edward @Edward Snowden
The government forcing you to wear a cloth mask that offers no protection is pretty bad.
But they forced you to wear a mask THEY KNEW couldnβt protect you, and told you itβs safe.
If it wasnβt for the fact that they knew you really were safe, that would be a very evil thing to do.
SOME FOLKS are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, THEYβRE red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, THEY point the cannon at you, Lord
it ain't me, IT AINβT ME
Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Itβs weird that libertarians and Bitcoiners are obsessed with property rights, but hardly ever talk about Wickard v. Filburn.
This Supreme Court case determined that growing/manufacturing something for your own personal use affects interstate commerce, because the thing you made *might* inflate the supply of sellable goods. You donβt buy from the market, therefore you affect the market, and the federal government can regulate it.
Wickard v. Filburn is used for everything from OSHA to the Controlled Substance Act.
"Substance"β¦ what the fuck is a substance? Everything is a substance, so the government has given themselves the authority "control everything".
"We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way."
β George Orwell, 1984 View quoted note β