RE: Epstein Involved in BTC

4 days ago (Edited)

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I really recommend actually reading and viewing the sources I post before commenting.

"...Epstein using crypto..."

This exemplifies my caution, because the point of the post wasn't Epstein using BTC. Epstein was integral to the corporate involvement in Blockstream, consulted and arranging corporate investment to the point where he was considered an investor whose involvement constituted principal management of the project. This despite no actual financial investment on his part.

Epstein was a principal architect of the formation of the corporate control of BTC, not merely someone who bought some tokens. I can understand skimming content to form a gestalt, but as our interaction here shows, this risks leaving our biases unchallenged by new information presented in content we skim, or only read the headlines.

I do appreciate you including me in your extensive list of sources, and I don't resent you skimming my content or something. I intend to provide you useful criticism that enables you to avoid misunderstanding going forward, as your comment suggests happened here, and regarding my last post about the Mississippi River. I do this not because I find your commentary lacking, but because I find your capacity to understand and cogently comment of great value. However, since you haven't read and fully understood what I posted, you do not apply your ability to understand and comment cogently. I think this robs you of understanding, and me of valuable critique that can improve mine.

"...a reason not to use it..."

I don't think Epstein's involvement is a reason not to use it. I think the fact that all cryptos are dependent on the permission of the owners of the physical hardware the internet protocol itself depends on makes them completely dependent on the permission of the investors that own that hardware and the massive database produced by the holistic surveillance all of us have been sources of, and that enables granular specificity of censorship of our communications, is. Since cryptocurrency is just data, granular censorship produces every possible control over our crypto transactions CBDCs enable. It turns every crypto, including Monero, into a CBDC applying social credit scores to enslave users.

That is THE reason I find compelling to not depend on cryptocurrency to secure myself from economic control of malevolent overlords, because it is exactly the mechanism of economic control I seek to avoid.

Thanks!

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@dreamtales -5

3 days ago

I re-read the post a few times to fully grasp everything to the best of my ability.

Also, thanks for the correction and you’re right, I misframed the Epstein point. I treated it as ‘criminals using crypto’ rather than Epstein’s role in the early corporate capture of BTC via Blockstream, which is what you were actually highlighting. That’s on me.

I also found this picture floating around the web. I have no idea of it is true or not:

As I understand your argument now, the core issue isn’t BTC, XMR, or any specific chain, but the fact that all cryptocurrency is ultimately just data transmitted over privately owned physical infrastructure, coupled with comprehensive surveillance and AI-mediated permissioning. That combination allows for granular censorship of transactions at the individual level, which functionally collapses all crypto into a CBDC-like control system regardless of protocol design.

I agree with the foundation of that critique — ownership of the pipes is ownership of the flow, and surveillance turns that ownership into actionable power. Where I’m still trying to think clearly is whether that control is absolute or asymptotic.

In other words, is granular economic control already total in practice, or is it directionally inevitable but still constrained by cost, scale, coordination, and political friction?

Not to argue that crypto “sets us free,” but to understand whether partial friction, lag, or enforcement limits still create meaningful (even if temporary) optionality for individuals during the transition.

I’m not asking this to defend any coin — I’m trying to understand whether the distinction between can be controlled and can be perfectly controlled matters, or whether you see that distinction as irrelevant given the trajectory you’re describing.

I highly appreciate the pushback, it helped me re-read the post with clearer eyes.

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@valued-customer 75

3 days ago (Edited)

I don't think they're ready to pull the trigger yet, but when they do using the internet to transact with crypto is kill. I also think crypto can remain very useful - and valuable - if we can create independent comms. I have looked into mesh networks using the LoRa spectrum that is used for IoT, and therefore has innumerable sources already and is pretty easy to bury signals in all the toasters, microwaves, refrigerators, and lightbulbs sending surveillance data back to corporate from every home with smart appliances in them. That helps to prevent triangulation which can locate radio sources, if there's ever a problem using that spectrum. Meshtastic and Meshcore are both exploding in popularity RN, with my sources claiming that meshcore is the better protocol.

For folks that can solder and flash esp32 firmware, devices can be had for as little as ~$20 per unit, but turnkey units run from $50 - $80 or so that I've seen. These tools are line of sight, but in populated areas like the E. coast and W. coast of the USA, rapidly growing mesh networks are up and running. I think these are a viable mechanism to keep crypto valuable and useful, because there's no owner of that spectrum, and no one can censor comms using it. I also think that if the internet becomes unusable to transact with crypto, these networks will virtually explode as folks adopt them so they can continue to transact with crypto. Particularly privacy coins will become useful again in that scenario, at least for a while. Because the problem isn't the crypto but the network, and folks are establishing free open networks on inexpensive hardware, the problem is halfway solved already.

These networks aren't presently high enough bandwidth to stream video, but they're fine for texting, which is all that is necessary to transact. They may be able to upscale considerably as well, since all that is necessary is higher end devices. A hurdle is backbone and long distance comms, such as across oceans, or vast deserts where few people live. The nearest meshtastic node to me in the very popular PNW network is ~30 miles away, which wouldn't be a problem except the Coast Range of mountains separates us. Lashing some solar powered nodes to some tall trees could solve that problem, if someone had a few hundred bucks and an open weekend.

Presently there's still time to prepare for the internet to become KYC and our use of it to transact outside the legacy financial system hasn't yet been terminated. I think the imposition of complete control over our use of the internet to communicate and transact is inevitable, and is happening incrementally by the day. I am unaware that anyone is using mesh networks to transact - but I think it's time to start spinning up that capability.

Edit: God, I hope Epstein isn't Satoshi Nakamoto. I've already been convinced he isn't dead, if he's a googolillionaire that's just a terrible outcome. So far no one's touched the SN accounts to my knowledge, so it seems not to be the case, at least at present.

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@dreamtales -5

3 days ago

I see... Hmmm 🤔

That makes sense. The bottleneck isn’t the crypto but the transport layer. I’m not deeply familiar with Meshcore yet and probably will never be, but I’ve seen similar things in conflict zones where people spin up resilient local comms from almost nothing just to keep messages flowing.

I’ve also been loosely following Reticulum / R-Nodes, which seem more like a network stack than a radio itself. It's something I am considering investing in to experiment with for my small pueblo here.

Am I thinking about this correctly? That protocols like RNS layered over LoRa-style meshes could handle routing, identity, and store-and-forward in the way you’re describing?

It feels like the remaining constraint isn’t feasibility so much as adoption and coordination before the window closes.

I also think that in order to control these methods will prove to be too time consuming and too expensive but still possible. And we know how much patience these evil secret societies has had in attaining their control today over the span of thousands of years. But eh...

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@valued-customer 75

3 days ago

That's why piggybacking on the LoRa frequencies is so useful. It's the space set aside for smart appliance surveillance, so there's at least some time before they can shut it down.

You're thinking right.

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@jin-out -4

2 days ago

Thanks for this post mayne!

@dreamtales https://brave-smoke.com/meshcore/

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