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Resistance to what? We are all just people in our computers trying to develop new payment systems. We are not in the Tienanmen Square fighting for democracy.
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Its not us who are resisting rather it is those that oppose us flipping it on it's head and constructing a narrative that somehow there is a hidden agenda in here somewhere, whereas the reality is that everything is transparent as it can be for those who bother to look properly.
(eg. source code, github, forum, twitter, etc)