Bitcoin Is for Facking Everyone
By Bob
It’s true, bitcoin is in fact for facking everyone; this is an essential piece of what many of us describe as freedom. There can be no gatekeepers – nobody gets to decide who uses it or how. This comes at a cost, as some smart fack said: freedom ain’t free, and whether we like it or not we all struggle with this. We try and dictate who and what a bitcoiner is all the time, from allocation to political beliefs, to how and why an individual is using it, to diet and religion, but the truth is I think a bitcoiner is a human being that uses bitcoin, for better or worse. Everything else is a social layer that bitcoin gives 0 facks about. Many people, often in government, take real issue with this: it helps terrorists commit acts of violence and criminals conduct their business without oversight. We tend to laugh this off as a nothing burger and ridiculous, but many of us in Stackchain bumped into what this actually means.
Stackchain began very organically but its resemblance to the bitcoin blockchain could not be ignored and its participants recognized this and tried to keep it as closely aligned as possible. Of course we could never perfectly follow how bitcoin operated in Stackchain: the entire thing is built on a centralized corporate social media app for god’s sake, but certain elements followed very closely. Its openness and accessibility was one of them – stackchain is in fact for facking everyone. People started calling themselves nodes and tried to dictate what stacks were valid, but ultimately it was the following stacks that verified what became part of the chain and what was left out and nobody could be excluded from participating, hallelujah freedom. This went on for years and deep social layers were built on top of the chain. It took on a life beyond documentation of a bunch of psychopaths stacking the bottom of a bear market and a motivator to stack just a little bit more every facking day, but a network of education, support, philosophy and friendship. All kinds of side chains and chats emerged and Stackchainers grew closer and closer.
The week before Christmas a few of us found out that one of us, Peter Ansel, was a convicted pedophile; a few of us already knew, and the rest of us found out a couple days after Christmas, including Psyduck who blasted it out into the world before the group conversation had even ended (thank you me brother, real talk). I was in the week before Christmas group and had been convinced to hold the information until after Christmas as to not ruin people’s holidays. It was an emotional week for me to say the least. My first reaction was deep shame, that I had gotten so close to a person that had done such things was soul crushing. I had been ranting and raving to anyone that would listen about the magnificence of bitcoin for 7 years and my journey into becoming a family with other bitcoiners had led me here. There’s probably a better article here about the various stages that followed for me and everyone else involved, but I’m going to try and keep this about Stackchain and bitcoin and find my way back to the point: how could I let this happen?
The answer was simple: there was no way to avoid it. Stackchain, like bitcoin, is an open protocol on the internet that is available to anyone and everyone. We tried to become gatekeepers following this revelation and vet who we were stacking with, but it’s impossible – Stackchain like bitcoin is open and anonymous, so if one chooses to be, anyone can stack. My dream is that no one would ever have to stack alone again. Whenever it is implemented, this becomes a reality, and everyone includes different political beliefs, religions and yes terrorists, murders and pedophiles – there is just no way around it.
This hard truth is also very much a part of bitcoin and part of the price we pay for the freedom we desire. I have a better understanding of why this is scary and important to people. There are good reasons government oversight and regulation were created. My belief is that like many ideas with good intentions, their implementation and use are flawed due to centralized control. In other words, the second we put rules and the governance of rules into the hands of humans they become susceptible to the greed and stupidity that can be found in all of us, some of us more than others, are twisted into something else and more times than not we are better off without them. Some people disagree and their position is not without basis or merit. Bitcoin does help people traffic and molest children, real children with mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. It will aid in acts of politically motivated mass murder, and it will help the worst people in the world do the worst things. The flip side of this coin is it will help the best people in the world do the best things, it will offer financial freedom to the world and allow oppressed people to build and lift themselves out of the economic bonds that bind them, it will create more accountability for governments and the wars they wage, the list goes on, but it is not without cost. I am still firmly of the belief that what the world is offered with decentralization and bitcoin is well worth the price, but we should not be blind to that price or to the true meaning of: “bitcoin is for facking everyone.”
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Note from Stackchain Magazine: No Bitcoin (or inferior monies) were exchanged for this article. This article was written by Bob the mother fucking Stackchain legend himself. Bob once walked down to a Bitcoin ATM to stack on Stackchain. Bob created OG chain because he demanded a pure chain. Bob showers regularly and smells fantastic. You can find Bob (sometimes) on X @Happyclowntime and if you enjoyed this article you can tip him via LNURL stingysled36@walletofsatoshi.com