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David Burkett expressed: Satoshi showed not how to change laws but how to make them irrelevant. These days, I don’t even know who my representatives are. I didn’t vote for them. I don’t care about them. Because they’re all pathological liars intent on attaining wealth and power at my expense. Instead, I focus only on invalidating them using the framework Satoshi provided.
David Further stated, while several of you are calling senators, begging for permission to use a permissionless network, I’m working on ways to neuter it because Cypherpunks write code permanently, and that’s the only way we’ll ever win.
Burkett is confident because he feels that circumvention of government bans is already baked in blockchain technology. He points to how it was always part of the plan. And, that it will be even more concerning if the government did not try to ban bitcoin. Governments are looking for more money and more control.
He also stated it is better to avoid KYC, mix transactions, and evade taxes as Satoshi intended. Obviously, even if the beloved Wyden/Toomey/Lummis amendment passes, the gov’t surveillance will expand under the infra bill.
It was always expected that the government would criminalize Bitcoin development. Taxation without representation is happening.
I used to follow national politics religiously. Worked on campaigns, going door-to-door, and bugged the heck out of the staffers for my congressman and senators. Voted in elections & primaries. And tried persuading anyone who would listen to do the same. It never changed a thing.
Alex Bosworth, Lightning Infrastructure lead, expressed: “I literally work on Bitcoin and Lightning from the time I get up to the time I go to sleep, every day, all day including weekends, only breaking for food, for years now. People still yell at me for not doing enough. I can take it, but others can’t. Remember, we’re doing it together.
Community response: It just looks like the playtime for Bitcoin is over, and those who treat Bitcoin as a cypherpunk freedom technology will have to work even harder even if everyone else leaves.
When people ask if “you think freedom is more important than public safety,” they are portraying a false dichotomy. On the contrary, freedom is the necessary foundation of public safety. Without it, everyone’s at the mercy of the government, and that’s when the worst atrocities in history happen.
