Final Thoughts from Tokyo: We’ve Already Won.
I hope you’ll enjoy this video. After talking to some brilliant minds in this city over the last months, and gauging the “sociopolitical” temperature over the past years, these words came to my mind on the train ride back to the hotel:
Seeing the brilliant ideas of one’s time, personally, and up close, being suffocated by the state, is enough to drive one to madness. Should good sense and love prevail, indeed, we will be.
The cat’s out of the bag. Who will be bold enough to live as such? That’s a good question.
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
You can't kill an idea :)
Goodebumps fam.
Let's do this shit. What else do we need?
Thank you, man.
Nothing much, that I can see.
My plan is just to use the money as my money, and spread the word about BCH until folks adopt. It’s happening somewhat rapidly here.
Hopefully more and more get the philosophical understanding along the way as they see the power and utility of decentralized, p2p transactions, and start to ask why we even need a “middleman” in the first place.
I guess we kinda still do. Fiat/crypto gateway exchanges that freeze your entire assets.
How cool would it be for everyone to mine and pay out for labor from that?
You don’t need a middleman to use these coins without an exchange, though. Just need a wallet.
Definitely true. And with things like LibertyX and LocalBitcoins we don't really need coinbase and other fiat crypto exchanges.
Goodluck
Hello friend! How's time going on..wish you have a nice time ahead..
The life in the streets is another story, I came from Japan 15 days ago, and the use of Bitcoin (and crypto) is totally residual. Life works with cash. Eating, traveling, visiting... In BIC technology stores, there is a half hidden option where you can pay in Bitcoin.
The other reality, are the investors, who do not know where to put the money, and it turns out that the crypto is a good place to take a slice of the cake.
Not really another story. More like exactly what I am talking about. Been here for 8 years now. It’s growing, but the state is clamping down and stifling that growth. Shibuya was turning into silicon valley 2.0, but like a “crypto valley.” Regs putting a damper on a lot of stuff and killing small startups there. BTC was not exactly the only thing I was talking about here, though, but crypto is a big part of it. The list of places where one can pay with digital tokens is ever growing. Should BCH hit the konbinis as announced by the folks at Bitcoin.com, that would be a game changer. But yeah, as you imply. The game is being stunted by parasites.
The game is owned/controlled by those parasites unfortunately. When they want BTC to do good, it will, when they don't, it won't. :( Unfortunately for us, we just get to sit back and enjoy the ride lol
Even with all the FUD I'm still certain crypto will outlast FIAT, it's only a matter of time in my opinion. The real question is, which coins to HODL.
I can’t agree with this fully, though. If this is the case the failure would be on people refusing to use crypto freely, and adopt it.
All it takes is a flash flood. And/or individual users ignoring (wisely) certain things and using their money as they please. Crypto is designed so as to exist outside of parasitic control when used properly.
I agree though, that many folks are too scared, if that’s what you mean by the state pressure resulting in the decline of markets.
To be honest I don't really agree with the statement 100% either and I figured you'd point out my flaws and that's another reason I like to engage myself with your posts. What I really meant was that the market manipulation from insider trading individual and collective like exchanges can turn 100k into 10K REAL fast.. Take what recently happened with $SYS on Binance for example. It might not be the same thing but it had the same effect.
State pressure is another problem all alone, being an anarchist I can't even participate in a conversation detailing the so-called "necessity" of governance regarding MY money. I'll flip out and start getting irate with people for being so ignorant as to believe that some corrupt humans should have control of everyone because some other corrupt human might interfere with them.
Fabulous one!!!