Quote from: Wind_FURY on May 06, 2023, 11:45:26 AM

Quote from: be.open on May 05, 2023, 03:48:47 PM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on May 03, 2023, 02:51:07 PM

I saw a post made by someone in which he told his story about his investment in Bitcoin and how it helped him go through the financially challenging times that the COVID-19 pandemic brought. A good, heart-warming story by a fellow Bitcoiner, BUT we shouldn't forget that simply HODLing/owning Bitcoin could also be a kind of political movement, because its features could make Bitcoin weaken or break down political strongholds.

It might be premature to call it a revolutionary movement, but what were the motivations of the early cypherpunks when they were building their tools? Satoshi's message in the Genesis Block is also political.

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There is a non-zero chance that the message encrypted in the genesis block is a regular timestamp with a headline from the first fresh newspaper Satoshi came across to document that the bitcoin network was launched no earlier than January 3, 2009.

What does that actually mean?

This means that your thesis about the political nature of Satoshi's message in the genesis block may be just mental speculation with no real ground. What if the date of a newspaper headline is more important than its content, which could be anything else by chance and the production editor? As Sigmund Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Quote from: Wind_FURY on May 06, 2023, 11:45:26 AM

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Of course, the early cypherpunk movement was thoroughly imbued with romantic rebellious spirit of protest against the existing financial system. But is it necessary to look for hidden political subtext here? If Cypherpunk is considered a political movement, then it is a political movement against politics, in a sense it is anti-politics, a protest against the dominant role of politics in our ordinary daily life. At least that's how I understand it.

I can't speak of their motivation, but the tools they built was to help users protect their privacy and help make said users be more anonymous online. That makes it easier to speak out, and to be in groups together without fear of the State spying on users or intervention.

Plus the point of that post is really just a mere shower-thought that because of how Bitcoin was technically designed, it makes it a tool that could weaken and break down political strongholds. We're probably helping the growth of a political movement by simply HODLing because HODLer growth = Community growth.

It seems paradoxical to me that the idea of making the blockchain open, with the goal of increasing anonymity and privacy.