1/5
Hard Times create Strong Tools.
The invention of TCP/IP, with its fundamentally decentralized and censorship-resistant design, was at least partially driven by the adversarial mood of the Cold War and the nuclear scare.
2/5
Strong Tools create Good Times.
The general optimistic mood of the turn of the century, when people were celebrating the "end of history" and the "dot com revolution", was at least partially driven by the success of the Internet in connecting the world.
3/5
Good Times creat Weak Tools.
The lazy reliance on convenience and trust contributed to weakening the Internet: while SMPT is theoretically decentralized we mostly depend on Gmail today, and the same goes for DNS, localization, social networks (like this one I'm using now).
4/5
Weak Tools Create Bad Times
Today we are very easily censored, blacklisted, tracked, spied upon, in a context where crime-exposing journalists like Assange or peaceful e-commerce innovators like Ulbricht are literally imprisoned/tortured for the way they used the Internet.
5/5
It's time to build Strong Tools again.
Security, Privacy, Verifiability over Convenience and "Muh Shiny UX".
Bitcoin.
(Tweetstorm inspired by a beautiful comment by @dergigi on Telegram🙂)
(Woooooops *SMTP)
There's a nice continuation of this thread by @PeterMcCormack... I'd like to have the knowledge to directly verify his version, but I'm afraid I'm too "not technical" foosball wise, so I'll have to trust!
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