The Goal of Technical Disintermediation and the Non-Aggression Principle

Some people appear to be confused about just what it is that us cypherpunks are trying to do. So let me lay out the general ideas here about what is happening that keeps the large majority of humanity enslaved. Your greatest enemy is not who you think it is. If you think it’s Donald Trump, or Hillary Clinton or (substitute the two opposition party candidates of your country) then you’re missing the point. Controlled opposition has become your placebo for distraction and your means for enslavement.

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The world has entered the era of artificial scarcity as a means for political control. These policies are known by the names KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti Money Laundering) and CTF (Control of Terrorist Financing). These policies have deputized the world banking system to become a system of law enforcement where money becomes a system of control…

(credit - Andreas Antonopoulos)

The problem that humanity has not been able to overcome so far is the issue of obedience to authority (aka the Byzantine Generals problem). Authority has continually proven itself to be unworthy of the power entrusted to it. Yet it remains ever present with voters forever impotent to change the dynamics of government. There’s a reason for this; government operates under the paradigm of unlimited money…

(credit - Stefan Molyneux)

The solution to this problem is known as “technical disintermediation” (aka decentralization). Since the source of authority’s power over you is the national fiat currency you use which operates as governments “vote for what you are allowed to do”, that monopoly power is what insures your obedience despite whatever injustices it creates. If you don’t have enough money to start your own space program, or nuclear power plant, that means fewer headaches for regulators.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies now threaten that monopoly. What this does is create an incentive for governments to stop printing up their own money because it will create a dynamic flow into the currency with the superior store of value. It also weakens the ability of government to do violence, whether it is small government such as ISIL or large government such as the US govt.

If you control your own money, you have just become your own bank. This is what bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do when you don’t use centralized exchanges (like Coinbase). All of these are a threat to centralized systems of power. What authority doesn’t understand is that its right to governance is illegitimate. They try to say that the vote makes it legitimate, but it isn’t because you weren’t given the option to opt out.

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For a judge or politician to declare through law what you can and cannot do is a violent imposition of will upon others (armed badge wearers are the violent extension of that law). This is a direct violation of the non-aggression principle. It just so happens that some of these laws are just, such as do not murder, do not steal, etc. But they are already part of natural law. Other ordinances and statutes imposed on top of natural law are artificial in nature and are basically agreed upon if you’re “part of the club”.

The problem is that these ordinances proliferate and become the club enforcers source of parasitic income. There is no redress because corporate authority has seized control of all of the levers of power.

In the USA, if you have a social security number, you’re part of that club. You have been opted in, whether you willfully agreed to or not. This most likely was done by your parents when you were an infant. The hard truth of the matter is that your parents abandoned you to the state when they did this, effectively selling you into slavery.

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Because of this, there is no protest that can mount an effective opposition to the injustices done by the state. They simply rule, and you obey or you die. But there was a response to this on Jan 3, 2009, that went unnoticed by authority by a little known paper by Satoshi Nakamoto.

The new bargain is this… technology has allowed you to create a digital panopticon, but at the same time part of that technology erased your borders. This is because the internet transcends national jurisdictions. If you want to use that technology, you have to surrender your authority. It is a choice. You either have to accept all that this technology can do, which will make you obsolete, or you have to completely reject this technology and go back to the stone age. There is no in between.

You can’t take the blockchain without the censorship resistant, borderless, open source protocols and put someone in charge accountable to a small elite pretending to know what’s best (there's a compelling reason why this won't work). But don’t worry. The terror you see is an illusion based upon your position of control. The paradoxical lesson that you must learn is that terrorism is a byproduct of your own making.

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