Facebook’s Libra Globalist Scamcoin is a Co-Opt Attempt Against True Decentralization: My Future Predictions

in #informationwar5 years ago

The Libra white paper was recently released by Facebook and my reaction is pretty much the same as anyone else who has been into bitcoin for a couple of years now. It uses all the pc buzzwords to try to convince you that they are aligned with the trend that has been developing since bitcoin’s repudiation of the atrocious behavior of the banks as indicated in the genesis block by the statement “03/Jan/2009, The Times, Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” shortly after the 2008 banking crisis.

While those of us in the crypto community aren’t fooled by this, future newcomers will be overwhelmed by the information overload and most people who are not currently into bitcoin won’t understand the difference. Those differences are critical to the cause of freedom and financial sovereignty. Facebook will simply play a numbers game favored by its massive network effect of 2.3 billion users which will censor what is likely to be minimal dissent to allow adoption of Libra on its platform.

Facebook has already proven capable of censorship under the guise of “hate speech” and “fake news” and mission creep will allow it to censor “hate values” when the issue of “fake money” begins to crop up as Andreas Antonopoulos has predicted. China is already ahead in this regard with a similar social media app known as WeChat Pay that is used pretty much universally in the region, but has all the bad qualities such as censorship insistence, bordered KYC, far from neutral, etc…

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I left Facebook and Twitter almost 2 years ago now and I did so while running my own software business. I used to use FB’s advertising platform and I know for certain that FB was the platform that allowed my card information to become compromised because I got that card specifically for that single purpose. It was used in a fraudulent attempt to deduct more than $300 USD from my bank in the first month of existence. I caught this and submitted a dispute on the charges and they were reversed. But I also cut up that card. Somehow FB failed to protect that payment information.

None of the above surprised me, but I had finally had enough by early 2017 and closed nearly all of my centralized social media accounts. While I had already been a voluntarist at heart for many years at that point, the discovery of the bitcoin white paper made me realize that we finally had a practical solution to sustain a social state of disordered decentralized consensus. Anarchy is potentially no longer a temporary “treasured” state between regime collapses, but can be mathematically enforced in accord with natural law (which is law that humans have no control over). However, we are still in the very early stages of the visions proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin. We are (at least in the west) headed for digital “panopticopia” first.

Caitlin Long seems to think that this development will become a gateway drug to bitcoin adoption. To some extent this may be true, but I think the chance of decentralized cryptocurrencies being overshadowed in the near term is far greater. What is most likely to happen is after a near term legal challenge, Facebook will be forced to secretly settle on full KYC and AML regulations. Their white paper says that transactions and social media accounts won’t be linked, but if they were really to do that, they would be in violation of securities laws. As a centralized entity running a global currency, they will have no choice but to submit to authority.

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I think it’s very likely that regulators will see this as their best chance to stave off the threat bitcoin and other truly decentralized crypto’s to their power, so I think that an agreement of some sort between FB and the US government to allow for its existence is practically certain. The list of current “validators” (what Facebook is calling their fake decentralized entities validating transactions) will probably grow and include such entities as Amazon and Google which will seize the world’s means of production using capital controls.

These entities will likely attempt to form a world government in the next decade where capital controls will make bitcoin and other “unsanctioned” crypto’s useless for buying anything tangible in the physical world. Black markets of course won’t be going away, but that means a premium on those kinds of services which will likely make decentralized crypto’s even more difficult to work with than they are now.

I think this next year is going to be absolutely critical in this industry. A showdown is likely to happen next spring between the old powers that shouldn’t be and the new rising tech oligarch’s. They won’t be fighting for “our freedom” though it is likely to be presented that way. They will be fighting for control.

This internal government conflict over cryptocurrencies, along with the issue of deep fakes capable of cracking their mind control algorithms offer the public the best chance for prosperity. These parasites have numbed the masses by injecting toxins through the control of mass media and centralized social media, but deep fakes, especially video, damage the intoxication effect of social media dopamine highs by forcing reality to come into question. Too much of that and nobody will be able to function without truly thinking for themselves, and that’s not something TPTSB will allow to happen.



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Exactly.

Wish you had tagged this with 'palnet'.
I'm somewhat of a whale there now.
I control 1% of the current reward pool.

I'm kind of a big deal.

lol


Their white paper says that transactions and social media accounts won’t be linked, but if they were really to do that, they would be in violation of securities laws. As a centralized entity running a global currency, they will have no choice but to submit to authority.

I don't think so. They are positioning themselves in a place where all 100 corporations they rounded up (10 million each for 1 billion total) are going to be controlling this asset. It might actually be decentralized... from a megacorporation point of view.

Therefore, the social media accounts can't be linked to Calibra accounts... because Calibra accounts are not linked to social media. If there are a hundred different megacorps onboarding accounts then it doesn't make sense that they would be connected to random social media ones.

I think this whole situation is going to turn out differently than everyone expects, including myself.

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You're currently #21 and I just got bumped from the top 50.
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It might actually be decentralized... from a megacorporation point of view.

This is distribution but I think it won't stay that way. The decentralization necessary to keep anyone from leeching their claws of control requires that nobody be in a position of authority. Bitcoin fits that standard since there is no CEO or central office of bitcoin. Can't say that about FB or any of their partners in this project.

Authority points are all over FB and other centralized IT. They will testify before congress. Then congress will insist on control for it to be allowed. FB will be forced to cave in to demands or be attacked legally until they do cave.

I see the strong likelihood of FB and the governments and banking system coming to an agreement but under a compromise of KYC. Time is working in favor of FB and against government control, but the banks and government have the massive advantage of force and legal authority. They are being pursued for antitrust violations (as well as Google).

FB will say that they are their last chance to stay in power against the future ravages of bitcoin's S/F economic model (which will surpass gold by 2024) and the brighter stooges in government and the Federal Reserve will see the light and they will come to an agreement to have KYC or some other model of financial control while FB and their partners will be guaranteed immunity (aka banking license).

If there are a hundred different megacorps onboarding accounts then it doesn't make sense that they would be connected to random social media ones.

I don't think this proposal will survive in its current form until it has the blessing of the SEC and other regulators. It will be made to bow a knee to authority or suffer the consequences because there are people in control.

We see just how insidious centralized IT can be from chain analysis. Even Bitcoin which is the most decentralized is suffering from the clutches of this technology as people submit information of their holdings to government.

I wish that this wasn't the case, but the people of the USA are not ready to leave their cages and likely never will be. China has lost that battle as well. Freedom will likely require a financial collapse followed by true decentralized crypto's taking over.

The finger of accusation will help weed out anything that isn't truly decentralized and then we have to hope that centralized power miscalculates and creates the fall of Rome again. Then we have a chance of being the only ones left standing. If not, then there will be two worlds for a while: the digital panopticon where people live surveilled and enslaved, and those outside of the matrix.

Edit: If the 100 validators can come together with more wealth than the US government combined with other governments on its side, then Libra could win out in the end because money talks. But it's a situation that can get very very ugly because 100 validators is small enough for a team of regulators to go after. This tremendous financial power is the reason why I think there will be agreement of some type. Whether KYC remains excluded as it currently is from the protocol layer in the long run, any agency left out in some way will throw its hooks into the project as much as it can until they are weakened to the point that they can no longer fight.

I'm somewhat of a whale there now.

I'm kind of a big deal.

Holy cow @edicted!! Really? Is that true?

Then... how comes you didn't flush a great deal of those tasty Pals you control from the 1% of the current reward pool on any of my 'palnet' tagged stuff yet? ¿Huh? :p

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