It is often said that #Bitcoin is everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers. There's nothing to relate it to, as Satoshi remarked.
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Bitcoin is different things to different people. Not only that, but what we mean when we say "bitcoin" depends on context, among other things.
Breaking apart this loop is what 21 Ways is about. However, it's almost impossible to talk about Bitcoin in any meaningful way without a brief discussion of the building blocks that make Bitcoin work.
"Every shop window now has a sign warning those who haven’t had the jab to stay out. Some shops redouble the humiliation by inviting ‘unvaccinated’ clients to ring a bell and wait until they can be served – outside – in Austria, in winter."
"the administration is promising that at the moment ‘physical coercion is not envisaged’, and that the fines will not ‘be converted into a custodial sentence’, having said the opposite just a few weeks ago."
I am not an anti-vaxxer. I am against government mandates. You are making a grave error if you are calling me an anti-vaxxer. It's lazy thinking.
That being said, there are valid concerns to be had when it comes to this vaccine. More and more doctors, virologists, and biologists are speaking out about this. Listen to JRE 1747, for example. However, these are not my main concerns.
My main concern is that we are sleepwalking into a form of authoritarianism that will be virtually impossible to dismantle. Once established, there is no escape. No possibility to break free.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."