Early Internet pioneer John Gilmore famously said: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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With the advent of the printing press, rulers and the church attempted to impose censorship, printing licenses (*imprimatur*), and guild controls, yet the spread of knowledge could not be halted. In the digital age, the European Union is attempting something similar—placing a "digital stamp" on every stream of bits.
Michael Saylor does not use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange (P2P cash); for him, Bitcoin is purely a monetary asset and the foundation of the company's balance sheet.
Centralized custody: MicroStrategy does not store its tens of thousands of bitcoins in private hardware wallets, nor does it operate private nodes for them in the sense a typical user might. Instead, the assets are held in centralized, regulated institutional custody services (such as Coinbase Custody) that are directly subject to US laws and court orders.
KYC/AML and regulated capital: The bitcoin purchased by Saylor is financed using capital from the US stock market, bond issuances, and Wall Street. This entire chain is 100% regulated and traceable.
Does Jack Mallers' wallet/platform (Strike) require KYC?
Yes, absolutely.
Although Jack Mallers often positions himself as a "fighter against state centralization and the fiat system," the flagship product he created—Strike (Strike App / Zap Solutions)—is a fully regulated financial institution and financial services provider.
Strike mandates strict KYC/AML (Know Your Customer) procedures—such as identity verification, proof of address, and SSN/personal ID number submission—for account opening and transactions.
It is a centralized custodial service (when a user holds fiat currency or Bitcoin there) that partners with banks and is fully subject to US and international regulatory bodies.
From a cypherpunk perspective, Strike is more of a "convenient bridge between the fiat world and Bitcoin" than a censorship-resistant or anonymous tool.
Medieval feudal lords or the *Ancien Régime* prior to the French Revolution also sought to maintain control over resources and information, but they clashed with new technology (the printing press) and a changed economic reality.
Using the standard `crypto/rand` library directly in the Go binary ensures that entropy is drawn straight from the operating system's secure kernel (`/dev/urandom` or `getrandom`) rather than from a pseudo-random number generator. I also implemented floating-point logic and visual dice, ensuring both physical/mathematical unpredictability and complete independence. 

This printed money is not taken out of thin air without consequences. Every trillion that is thrown into the market to bail out the banking system dilutes the purchasing power of the ordinary taxpayer's savings. The ordinary person pays for the bank's mistakes with higher food prices at the grocery store, more expensive fuel, and less affordable real estate.
Bitcoin has created an economic incentive completely unique in world history: a direct monetary reward for finding the cheapest and most efficient energy.
If you throw 6 dice at once, which collide with each other and against a wall, deterministic chaos occurs (a classic dynamical system where even the smallest differences in initial conditions – hand position, throw angle, airflow, and surface roughness – make the outcome completely unpredictable).
There is so much noise in the world, media noise, etc. But let's make the best noise for ourselves: 200-400 dice rolls of BIP-39 24-word (secret) final noise.
Currently, there are only 3 blockchains that have a hash rate large enough for real PoW: bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and monero. They also have absolutely no owners. They also have decentralized nodes (bitcoin has 100,000+ nodes). PoS does not meet any conditions at all.
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Satoshi's logic (PoW + UTXO + Timestamp): "We trust no participant or their clock. We trust ONLY the chain where the most irreversible physical work (PoW) has been demonstrated and where each block contains the mathematical timestamp of the previous block."
Anyone who understands the original idea of blockchain — to create a system free from human corruption and arbitrary decisions — will sooner or later return to the pure, reliable foundation of PoW and UTXO.
Emergency restrictions and crisis control:
During a crisis or unrest, the central bank can shorten the validity period of the money issued, for example to 7 days, or set a condition that the money is only valid in a specific municipality/region (geofencing on paper).
ATM as a "coupon printer":
Traditional logistics of secure banknotes (security vans, printing houses, central storage facilities) are replaced by coupons printed on site, equipped with security features and matrix codes. The ATM is no longer just a "cash machine", but a centrally controlled terminal that generates a unique serial number and expiration date on the paper.
If a star or public figure does not tell the “right story” or submit to the central narrative, their CBDC account can be subject to restrictions, expiration dates, or closed in a matter of seconds.
You can buy Bitcoin for money, but no Bitcoin address, protected by 400 dice rolls, or 256 bits of pure entropy, can be bought or broken with any amount of money in the world - its "price" exceeds the limits of the physical universe.
100 dice rolls already give ~258.5 bits of entropy (which fills the 256-bit requirement). 200 dice rolls give a whopping 517 bits of physical entropy, which provides a huge margin and removes any deviation that may arise from inaccuracies in the dice (e.g. uneven weight). Regular plastic dice are never 100% perfectly weighted. But since with 400 rolls you have over 1000 bits of physical noise, even if the dice are a little "skewed" and some numbers come up more often, the actual pure entropy is still well over 256 bits.