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정치는 잊어버리고 허락을 구하지 말고 관심을 가져라 Bitcoin의 유틸리티 대신
When one considers the state of the Union today, it doesn’t really seem like there is a viable path to affect change via the political process.
아래는 Marty's Bent에서 직접 발췌한 것입니다. Issue #1281: "강한 위치에서 자세." 여기에서 뉴스 레터 신청.
(출처)월요일 밤은 취임식이었습니다. Bitcoin Jawn meetup in Philadelphia. I had the pleasure of being in attendance and participating in the discussion. The topic of the first gathering was “Bitcoin and Freedom,” which is very fitting considering that Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States of America, where revolutionaries thrust their flag into the earth and said something along the lines of, “We will no longer be ruled by an unaccountable despotic king unfairly taxing us while living in a foreign land. We will be free men.”
필라델피아 원주민으로서 저는 건국의 아버지들, 그들이 믿는 것, 그리고 그들과 그들의 가족이 개인의 자유 의지에 뿌리를 둔 삶을 살 수 있도록 하기 위해 세계에서 가장 큰 제국에 그들의 의지를 어떻게 강요했는지에 항상 끌렸습니다.
During the meet up, the conversation landed on the topic of what can be done to lobby policy makers to protect bitcoin from overbearing regulation. What can we do to protect bitcoin 채광 from climate hysterics? How can we get a de minimis spend tax exemption? How can we get bitcoin labeled as free speech, which would eliminate capital gains taxes altogether so individuals can transact freely? These were all interesting topics and definitely things I would like to see. However, I couldn’t shake the irony that we were gathered in a small pub in Philadelphia and essentially begging for the most basic of freedoms: The freedom to choose what we deem to be the best money for ourselves and spend it as we see fit without fear of retaliation from a despotic government. The Founding Fathers would be shrieking in rage over how the Republic they created has changed. Benjamin Franklin would surely remark, “Well it seems that you all were most certainly not able to keep it.”
When one considers the state of the Union today, particularly the bloated and tyrannical state of the federal government, it doesn’t really seem like there is a viable path to affect change via the political process. The whole system has been corrupted by special interests and an intelligence apparatus that has gone drunk with power. It seems like a completely idiotic strategy to think that lobbying the goliath to act favorably toward a tool that is destined to destroy it is a good way to spend one's time and resources.
Instead, anyone who would like to see bitcoin succeed in defanging a shadow government gone mad with power would be better off spending their time and resources working as hard and as quickly as possible to initiate and fortify a bitcoin circular economy that equips those looking to peacefully escape the goliath and supporting them from a position of impenetrable strength. Asking the goliath for permission to defang it is acting from a position of weakness that is destined to fail. The goliath, understanding its perceived authority in the eyes of its subjects, will probably give subjects looking for permission a false sense of security by saying things like, “Ok, but…”
당신이 사용할 수 bitcoin, but you have to report all of your addresses to me.You can mine bitcoin, but you can only use these approved energy sources and only include these transactions in blocks you mine.You can use the Lightning Network for payments, but you can only open up channels with channel counterparties on this credentialed list.If this is the route taken by Bitcoiners, it will lead to a dead end that renders bitcoin’s value proposition completely useless in the United States. This is certainly a path I do not want to take and an outcome I do not want my children to be subjected to.
나는 자유롭게 살고 싶다. 내 인생에서 골리앗을 제거하고 싶습니다. 나는 내 돈에 대한 대리인을 갖고 싶다. 자유롭게 할 수 있는 일에 대해 허락을 구하고 싶지 않습니다. 그것이 골리앗의 눈에 나를 "급진적"으로 만드는가? 그럴 수도 있지만, 더 이상 압제적인 방식으로 나를 지배하도록 내버려두느니 차라리 내 이름을 다윗으로 바꾸고 골리앗과 정면으로 맞서는 것이 더 빠를 것입니다. 나는 건국의 아버지들이 같은 성향을 가지고 있을 것이라고 생각하며 당신도 똑같이 하는 것을 두려워해서는 안 됩니다. 골리앗은 우리를 대표하고 우리의 자유를 보호해야 하는 존재에서 큰 피해를 입히고 날마다 점점 더 많은 자유를 잠식하는 존재로 변했습니다.