Let us not forget that most of these really strict know your customer laws came into effect after the False Flag 9/11 attack started the "war on terror" (otherwise known as the war of terror). So if we are talking about "terrorism" being the main reason for the necessity of "whitelists" and "blacklists", we are talking about changing privacy for all sovereigns based on a threat that is far less likely to threaten the population than, say, getting struck by lightning or dying from falling in the shower.
I don't feel this is the right place to call 9/11 a false flag attack.
Some people may have a hard time taking you seriously after such a comment.
I am as disgusted as the next guy by the excesses of the war on terror, but I would hate for bitshares to be associated with tinfoil hats.
Interesting points.
But then again record shorts were taken out against the airlines just prior to 9/11 attacks. There was a lot of made on these risky bets by:
Deutsche Bank
Merrill Lynch/HSBC
Morgan Stanley
Bank of America
Raytheon
Lehman Brothers
General Motors
...
FBI Director John P O'Neil quit his job when his investigation of Osama Bin Ladin was blocked.
Top Pentagon officials even cancelled travel due to s"security" concerns.
If you are interested in crypto, I urge you to ask why. Are we here just to make money and be the next power arm of the system of debt slavery we currently have? Or are we here to change the world's monetary control structures to fundamentally uplift and empower others?
As for being a moderator. I only have mod privs over the beyond bitcoin subthread. As for politics...you can't get politics out of building a new future...unless, of course, there is a supreme leader who cannot be opposed in thst future.
I do not expect people to agree with me (though countless facts point to the truth), but I don't expect them to tell me I cannot speak my mind...indeed the beyond bitcoin platform is based on letting people speak their minds.
P.S. what we build here today is going to be impossible for any man or even team of men to defeat. I prefer a "tin foil hat" point of view over one of willful naivety.