{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1sgs97fe0n9wehe6zw7drcxdz4cy9yt9pfqjv8gasz5jlk4zezc0quppx3c","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1sgs97fe0n9wehe6zw7drcxdz4cy9yt9pfqjv8gasz5jlk4zezc0quppx3c","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-09-19\n📝 Original message:On 09/19/2015 12:27 AM, NxtChg wrote:\n\u003e\u003e This is extremely naive. At a minimum, getting popular/successful (and regulated) is the formula for regulatory capture.\n\u003e \n\u003e Let me give you an example.\n\u003e \n\u003e Suppose you are a regular guy, say Peter Todd, and you are faced with 10 policemen in anti-riot gear.\n\u003e \n\u003e You can fight them in two ways:\n\u003e \n\u003e 1. become stronger, so you could provide an adequate response, either by turning into Hulk or by getting another 30-50 Peter Todds.\n\nYour vision of censorship resistance is to become such a strong central\nauthority that you can resist it in direct physical confrontation. If\nyou succeed at this, you are the threat.\n\n\u003e 2. lose some fat, learn a few parkour tricks and move around mostly by night behind dumpsters.\n\nAnd your alternative is to lurk in dark corners.\n\n\nThe inability to see another option is the inability to understand what\nSatoshi created.\n\ne\n\n-------------- next part --------------\nA non-text attachment was scrubbed...\nName: signature.asc\nType: application/pgp-signature\nSize: 473 bytes\nDesc: OpenPGP digital signature\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150919/5262f3ce/attachment.sig\u003e"}