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      "body": "(https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTugJAfZNdi1Lcy41nCJ8MAFoSKXksbgUM1KTQvNDMKu/image.png)\n\n New Kid On The Block\n \n\nWho would have guessed that the most attractive currency in the world could be something that you cannot touch, taste, smell or hear? In fact, you cannot physically experience it outside of seeing it represented on a digital screen.\n\n \n\nCryptocurrencies are not yet the most powerful currency but as people become familiar with the circulation of bespoke non-physical coins, it seems to be heading that way, ultimately killing the dollar and decentralising the money system. \n\n \n\nBut this will not be immediate, the Queen B on the block is Bitcoin and she means different things to different people. As she flirts with investors and anarcho-capitalists alike they all want a bit.\n\n \n\n \n\n •\n\n \n\n \n\nI have often pondered on how today’s world of escalating dishonour, in every facet of trade, could be reverted back to good old trust. And suddenly, from the least likely place, my questions are answered. A catalyst for change in the form of a coin. What have we done to deserve this? Nothing really, I guess the heavens showed mercy on those of us who actually want a fairer world. Or maybe it is a curse for those who are paid out of its imbalance. All we really need is a little gratitude, to say thank you and to make sure that the security of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain is upheld as a standard for mankind. Hopefully, before extremists succeed in resetting this crooked world.\n \n \n\n What’s All The Fuss About?\n\nIt’s a very, very big thing, even if you don’t know it yet, you soon will.In 2010 I was baffled by the concept of E-gold so I became curious. Virtual gold backed by real gold? How can you trust it, who, what, where, why?\n\nI was lead to discover that people were beginning to use an alternative currency called Bitcoin. Immediately I thought that this may be the beginning of my ideal – A world of unregulated, free trade. Being a traditionalist at heart, a currency that you cannot touch seemed well abstract and wasn’t easy for me to accept, but on the other hand, a currency owned by the people: understandable.All this caused me to delve deeper into a more abstract concept called Cryptocurrency Mining which basically involves virtual miners (manned computer hardware) solving a digital request in the form of an algorithm and a complex equation verifying transactions on a blockchain. With this done successfully, the miner is remunerated in Bitcoin. The request normally aims to verify a ledger.\n\n \n\nEven after reading numerous articles, and watching videos, it all still made no sense to me. My interest suddenly disappeared after realising the amount of processing power needed to generate a substantial amount of Bitcoin (more here). It was an investment that I felt was too expensive, time-consuming and risky; it didn’t quite weigh up.\n\nFast forward five years, I only recently returned as what I call, a late-early adopter as this was just before the period of mass awareness – 2016 to the present. My interest soared. I now see that I was clueless (and still am) as to how many fresh possibilities cryptocurrencies offered. It’s almost a sin not to know.\n\nWaking Up\n\nAlthough much about this new type of money has become common talk, I still couldn’t grasp a full understanding of it. I put this down to the complexity, the huge scope of this money of account thing, the volatility and the many huge unanswered questions surrounding it. But now, I think it’s safe to say that four years on, many of the initial issues, such as the convenience and transfer times, have been addressed with its natural evolution. By the growing amount of startups and the thousands of crypto exchanges emerging online right off of its back, you can see that the world is shifting.\n\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU4zZzUbYQj5K3yHYWr3Qhkd4adLc7CKoYSfTTLBzAZjz/image.png)\n\n\n \n\nBut our awareness is still minimal. Well, at least of the worldwide impact cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain is having on today’s financial institutions and the suppression of the fact that the world is about to change forever; China’s attempts to sink the new heavyweight currency by limiting its usage in China is probably the best evidence of this. Meanwhile, others follow in their footsteps with hopes of killing her but in the most organic way making it appear like natural causes. But we cannot be surprised, we should know by now that every plutocracy, by any other name, will do all it can to assassinate any semblance of competition let alone an equaliser or, as I like to call her, the saviour of justice.\n \n\nAppeal\n \n\nThe main thing that captured me was the idea of using a kind of cruise control money freely without a central bureaucratic body dipping in for it’s cut. After all, these forkers have a policy of taxing every God-given thing that nature provides for us – the earths natural inhabitants; from the ability to travel without tolls and being cross-examined, to the monetisation of natural elements and forced accrediting of innate skills by a bogus system of insurance that benefits from malpractice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_KXZZc13U.\n \nYou can just Imagine how many legitimate healers have been suppressed from expressing divinely bestowed gifts on the needy, just because they can’t pay to get qualified by the regulation drunk authoritieś standards.\n \n \n\n (https://steemitimages.com/DQmdA8fzkhJQtVLFcQcuQFKpSCJ6XtkuAvwVSxdxA3AzDgQ/image.png)\n\n\n \n\nFalse Evidence Appearing Real\n\n \n\nI’m sure there are a number of honest farmers who cannot afford organic stamps and credits, who are so far from knowing their personal power or recognising that earning remuneration for their service is their actual human right. So broken in spirit are they that they just sit and wait for permission from the state due to their ignorance of jurisdiction and a crippling fear of breaking the law.\n \nBy using and recycling fear and the fact that people need to feel safe, the regulatory boards go a bit too far with rules, at the same time creating stress, imperceptibly marching communities into ER on a daily, by lowering the quality of life, allowing harmful ingredients to exist within the supply chain, be it food, education or governance.\n \nTo some corporations, their concern for public health is far less than the profits on the sales of their Warfarin and Oxaliplatin drugs.\n Grooming politicians to introduce foreign policies that harm the locals and benefit the investor is not what you would want to call fair trade, in a common market or a united nation. Well, at least not in a natural mind.\n \n \n\nIn Securities We Trust\n\n \n\nBut we aren’t in our natural minds, are we? Because of our unaddressed insecurities, we parrot the media without thinking, dropping bogus information on our peers so we sound informed, spreading fear deeper into vulnerable minds. But this behaviour will only pause our insecurity momentarily without knowing the damaging effect of the information that we really know nothing about.\n \nSo it’s likely that the fractured minds of ‘We the people’ are the ones that will succumb to the fictitious rumours and play the biggest roll in trying to bring down the unfamiliar, new coin on the block through this farmed fear. From within that fear, the sentiment is echoed ‘Better the devil you know‘ as we automatically seek to police what could be our own salvation. Such is our faith in a failed system, even at its end with the potential of something fair, fresh and new we still arrest it.\n \n\n \n\n \n\nBit Whatnow?\n \nIn November, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, James Gorman said: “Cryptocurrency doesn’t quite deserve the attention it’s getting”. This is after just two months earlier saying that he thought Bitcoin was “certainly more than just a fad.” This illustrates the attitude that most investors have developed with Bitcoin: a love-hate relationship. Because so many people are in bed with her and she won’t show special preference to any of them they’re taking it personally. She’ll enthral anybody who’ll put their politics aside and dip their hands into their pockets for her.\n \nUnlike the dollar and the federal reserve, she works on her own and will accommodate individuals and countries alike with no care for how they look, sound or act. In fact, Bitcoin isn’t really the problem it’s probably the insecurity of bwankers that is the issue we need to carefully observe. They’ve sampled her, fell in love but know that they cannot control her so they’ve decided that She Must Die!\nBeing so used to pimping cash by centralising its flow, starving a country or two here and there, every measure is being taken to get her into bondage like all other currencies. When it’s finally known that Bitcoin is not for private sale, she’s actually from a clean background and is really a question of our own values, we may stop wasting time with the insults, they’re self-harming.\n \nDesigned For The People\n \nOne thing for sure, Bitcoin was not designed to be controlled by any one organisation, so you had better be preparing for a different world.\nWe will not be going backwards from this event. The key fact that we need to know is that every radical mind with ideas of a fairer world is busy working with the Blockchain, choosing the world they wish to create.  That’s why you keep hearing the word ‘DECENTRALISED‘. Knowing this, our trusty media owned government offer crypto options that look and smell like her but weight the same as fools gold. Remember these guys can withdraw funds and wipe out whole countries at will with their remote money.\n \n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmNhjaumvxzAVAfHMBiZhCwKk9XPFPeoZv5m2TGwRtbkdF/image.png)\n \n\nJudas \n \nUltimately what this means: is that as the world decides on which cryptocurrencies to adopt, media campaigns are being tailored to steer us into accepting the ones that governments can breach making it is possible for Bitcoin to fail into the hands of the illu… centralised world tyrants. But that’s an impossible feat if ‘the people’ ignore the current smear campaigns and stand by their new Quean. Alternatively adopting a new centralised government-issued coin will allow the issuers to lawfully acquire Bitcoin along with her future profits that were willingly abandoned. In another way ‘…they will buy up the profits from the saviour that we helped them crucify’.\n \nIf we can cast our minds back to America, 1933, Executive Order: HJR 192 under F.D. Roosevelt, we will see that governments often decide where the people should find value and the media assists. The peoples gold was taken out of their clutches and exchanged for bills conveniently around the time of The Great depression or more conveniently the Great Gold Haul.  It’s not too far a stretch of the imagination to think that this could easily be repeated on a global scale by the takeover of the primary cryptocoin. Or by simply pulling their final hand – the law, deeming all trading in Bitcoin and other currencies illegal while still holding on to our crypto. All because of it’s threat to the dollar.\n \n\n ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcA4kopXk7kXFEQne1HbaCZFPuiXvKm4tNbEeJ3AxUpNg/image.png)\n\n \n\n\n‘Bloodbath’ Another committed headline from The Express \n \n\n \n\nMeanwhile online, the rumours keep coming. One such rumour suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoins creator) isn’t a real person but really just an anagram made from four major telecommunication companies names, adding doubt about her ethics and intentions amongst the already confused world. Then there’s other talk suggesting that Sophia, the first Saudi Arabian robot citizen (oh god!), masterminded the whole thing.  The spread of this useless fear satisfies only those interested parties of war funding dollars.\n \n \n\nTo draw a parallel it’s like the oil companies fighting to exist in the presence of the electric fuel revolution or maybe even genetically modified organisms over organic food. It seems pathetic that a drug company can fight against natural herbal medicine in plain sight of the masses but this is what we allow.\n\n \n\nClearly, you can see the fight going on between good and bad but its a game of monopoly where the winner will not be the one that exerts the most force but exercises their right to simple non-participation in the unhealthy rules that the major corps need the people to accept to profit their sponsors. A simple ‘No’ could mean everything. To want to share your shares amongst the people and attenuate the bank will change the game forever. But there will be compelling incentives to test us. We should not be surprised that these offers will hide behind ethical looking media groups ICO’s and cryptocurrencies alike.\n\n \n\n \n\n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmUg1V2bA7eZHnKvg718cr8epvzpxgHFv2BbKt5LiDHqg2/image.png)\nSophia\n \n\n \nIn September 2017 Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan said ‘I’d fire a JPM trader in a second who traded that. It’s against the rules, it’s stupid, it’s dangerous”.  This was in reference to cryptocurrencies and was stated when the banks started panicking after taking notice of crypto’s profitable rise and the inevitable threat to their financial system. The comment seemed emotional, desperate and a little less calculated than the deeper, Edward Bernays style, psychological attacks that the media are dishing out today.\n \nDimon later went on to say: He regrets saying this and believes in the technology behind it. J.P.Morgan Chase have since announced the launch of a blockchain based system. It’s hard to believe that a decentralised system can come from such destabilised views.\n \n (https://steemitimages.com/DQmbKugTmKX8S4NsUgiLPMJReVnktAcP4aoG6K9hkkApJer/image.png)\n\n \nThe Cavalry\n \nKnowing the deeper message of the currency, it seems sensible to assume that those who fight against it with such venom and misleading words like ‘Bubble’, ‘Hoax’ and ‘Crash’ and attach fraud, drugs, terrorism and money laundering to her are more likely to be the same criminal minds benefitting from the same crimes in a different name on a different shore. I fail to remember when the dollar curbed participation in these ongoing major crimes.\n \n\n \n\n ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbgyGRsxb9QoA5nzpxrAanjqwq6pKpD37WbSuBmYDUFNX/image.png)\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \nIt’s becoming increasingly obvious how all the negatives at the centre of cryptocurrency news conveniently leave you feeling doubtful and confused, highlighting an agenda to crucify the saviour. Its decline could only aid those who have something major to lose on the outside and are possibly allergic to honesty. Ultimately we all fail to recognise and support the huge security benefits that Bitcoin has to offer.\n \n \n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmQNv3mAqBBowb5r5TFvRdfRgRvhzDAJQ9C8z2MU5ydp8i/image.png)\nMore desperate propaganda measures by the panicked media\n \n \nThe Blockchain is like the horse that Bitcoin pulled up on. It’s the back-end system that the cryptocurrency sits on and in as much as it sits on such an honest ledger system, the accounts are pretty much unhackable. You would think this would put fear in the criminal mind but it’s actually the governments and banks that are most scared.\n \n \n\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSzTfUgdthzC94ySiUGUBcsN21mcgbp8yhooMaeLwE1yF/image.png)\nAgents are experiencing a change  from within that they’re not ready for\n \n\n \nIt’s almost like Colonel Mustard is looking pretty nervous right now after pointing at Mr.Green for all those years; because this technology could mean in essence total accountability and no hidden spending, arms deals, misappropriated funds, toxic loans or ghost contractors.\n \nIt’s very transparent and almost an alien in this deceptive world that we have become accustomed to living in. You would expect it to be embraced with both arms but the tabloid dependent world doesn’t like it. And the rest of us – we get it.\n \n\nThe Plan\nIt would be nice to see this defender of liberty embraced and protected by women. I feel that that nurturing essence at the beginning of this major game change may protect it without the prejudice of overambitious testosterone. As flipped as our world may be, the organic nature of woman still seems to be to prioritise and conserve life and not to destroy, rob, modify, blow up poison, extract and whatever other mischievous ventures men will engage in to support their grand illusions of power.\n\nI’m noticing many more women adopting the new cash and I hope this will inspire a sisterhood to replace the macho brotherhood and all of its harmful ways. This isn’t an attack on men but on that antiquated patriarchal state of mind that knows only the word ‘Take’.\n\nIn 2014, Bitnation was founded by Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof. Her ideas were formed around her father being stateless for a decade and witnessing unethical and non-sustainable governance during the Arab Spring. Her desire to create a more fluid communication between the people and the system, promoting the power to choose in all aspects of living and government, in particular, led to the creation of Bitnation.\n\nBitnation has an ethical, nurturing core and seeks to simplify the contractual communication between different parties for a more sound resolution without interference. The heart behind Bitnation is just a small example of the world that the Blockchain and its cousin Bitcoin are forming from the new young minds that actually get what it actually means to equity.\n\n \n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmVNVKah8HHUzSAM4Tie4Dx5d41GhUxSYCBz3VGxixFpvP/image.png)\nSusanne Tarkowski Tempelhof. Bitnation\n \n\nWho Knows?\n \n\n“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws” — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild.\n \nWell, not exactly. To that end, cryptocurrency says ‘Ok, keep your money and we’ll keep ours’. As shrewd and intelligent as Rothschilds statement sounds, I personally feel the quote is less worrying than it first seems. In the information-hungry world that we live in today, the real concern is total control of the amalgamated media groups. With the people’s trust in these information distributors, whatever they suggest will have a huge impact on global beliefs having a direct reflection on our lives. It’s fine if people remain dependent on the amalgamated press but we should recognise that what they dont know can hurt us all (911).\n \nWe should be aware that our confidence in the new coin will expand and contract as we’re fooled by the press. We will continue to be warned of the illegality and all the negative impact with the appearance of this Christ, that judges ALL equally. They will keep bringing up Ross Williams Ulbricht and his den of illegal trade: Silk Road as though crime never existed before that point.\n \nThere is also need to be aware of those calling themselves cryptocurrency experts. It’s no secret that the old world money ‘experts’ with (again) the help of the mainstream media make damning predictions regarding what they think will happen with local and foreign economies, their media then distributes the fear and we automatically make their prophecies into a reality. We could get into the chicken or the egg argument here but let’s stick to the point.\n \n ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWz2JyfDnztojUuxRBF56rcetbiz1Lce43SEhnuVNwosd/image.png)\n\nPaid to monitor yourself. We will see more poor use of decentralised apps (Dapps) in the interest of Google and other centralised organisations\n \n \nYes, they will pop up from the old world of finance with their paid reps dressed in fatigues and vans to appeal to our urbanness, hosting cryptocurrency talks to represent your saviour but in their way, for their benefit pushing their consortium or private blockchains which are not quite decentralised. But these yesterday experts should be handled with caution as they are opportunistic novices in this arena and by their nature they seek to create a federalised blockchain, contradicting the whole idea.\n \nLet’s remember, those cash billionaires of yesterday – the types who invest their money largely in war and GMO crops in the guise of helping so-called helpless, third world countries have not a care or a concern for human life, and can easily afford the biggest platform to spit their agenda’s. And if you, like most others, do not look past the first page of Google, your sense of reason is at the mercy of their paid top four articles at the head of your browser page.\n \nWhether their media says buy, sell or hodl, we ain’t trying to hear it because there isn’t supposed to be any experts in this. The only thing you can actually know for certain is that it’s here for us to trade fairly amongst each other and not for legal warmongers to complain, maintain, tax or even explain it.\n \n \n\n\n \n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmT1eMEavHCevLBF81vjHoLX92qz71tTDkXnLiQdMNdApY/image.png)\n \n\nStocks And Stones\n \nThere are very simple things to comprehend before we go all anti on the very thing that’s killing the dollar and breaking the unforgiving, systemic chain around our necks.\nOne is that: It’s a problem to the banks and all those who feel they have a controlling grip on money.\n \nAs you read, there are corporate think tanks with more money than combined countries, assembling and desperately trying to find new ways to bring Bitcoin down and regain their control.\n They will naturally use the media and its biased reflection of morality as the tool to do so, as it has worked incredibly well in the past. But what happens when the media itself is set up on a blockchain network and those questionable quotes and opinions are attached to the author with their permanent signature and full liability for the disinformation with all links to the source of their lies? Oh, they don’t want this.\n \n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmdnQZ8njZDQGy6SqJVAD8VwSLJ1Cxdey5TpYVDHXYjziL/image.png)\nComparing her to Myspace. We know the propagator\n \n \nWe should understand that transparency is transparency and if the government (for lack of a better word) can no longer hide and are made accountable for their local and foreign interactions it will naturally dissolve. So what? It’s not in our best interest to put our governments on life support when it serves itself first. At its very core, it is not really the friend of freedom. By all means, try but one way or another it’s time up and, as painful as it seems, cryptocurrency is the catalyst that neither a theist nor atheist saw coming to set the record straight. Like it, lump it, get in or get left out but it is certainly a change in power that nobody could have anticipated- a digital judgment day.\n \n ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdcrSfVbei9cMAJY9BdrA2RuKs7nE7y4fMUcJCyLKH4Sx/image.png)\n \nAbout The Saviour\nBut we don’t all see things in the same way. The media isn’t the only issue. Although some deists are adopting the Christ Coin, others are more than happy to hold their breaths waiting instead for a saviour, looking suspiciously like Ptolemy, to pop up in sandals, robes, and maybe a Louis Vuitton halo to sort out this economic funk.\n \nThere’s also the atheist sitting in hope that trusty Steven Hawkins will keep thinking for him and identify a reachable rock inside of a Goldilocks zone somewhere in the heavens to propel him safely through space to start screwing up another organic solar system.  All this dependent on god particle dimension manipulating technology that science says doesn’t really exist. I mean is it possible to find God’s system without believing she exists?\n \nAnd of course, there’s silly me taking both of their views as non-literal metaphors and looking to find my sun of God in helio-space exploration while seeking Christ in technology. And Oh! have we found her.\n \nHerstory\n \nAt the beginning of the millennium, BBc (before bitcoin), the Limewire BitTorrent popped up as an early Peer 2 Peer system using the Gnutella network. It was my first introduction to decentralised p2p. Imagine, rather than the longwinded act of searching various websites to get to a file online you could simply extract files from another computer, anywhere in the world using the internet browser only as a bridge to connect the two computers together, with full encryption and all in one location. This was really the birth of decentralised transactions online. The benefits were simply that it cut out the middle dood, it’s much faster and poos on regulations.\n \nUnfair, you may say, especially with intentions of piracy but in the way that cryptocurrency works the intentions are often geared towards freedom and convenience and you will see this common theme with those who generally take an interest in cryptocurrencies and/or Blockchain technologies. The security is already built into the code, so that’s one greedy middleman that is no longer necessary.\n \nIf you doubt its exigency I suggest you look back at how trade security regulations have benefited only privileged groups with no real concern for the meekest of our humankind, leaving everyone but the privileged on the outside.\n \nUnless you work a 9-5 for enjoyment alone the blockchain and its unique type of sharing may not appeal to you but if like most others, you have to work to put food on your family, (to quote the first jester in office George W. Bush), keep the roof over your head and avoid poor health, then you need to carefully study the wonderful possibilities of this revolution. It puts the power in your hands and will help to balance the books with certainty and they know it.\n \nIn 2008 the domain Bitcoin.org was registered online. Later that year a bitcoin whitepaper on a Peer-to-Peer electronic cash system was posted to a cryptography mailing list by Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2009 the first block called The Genesis Block was mined by the author. In 2010, Nakamoto handed the network alert key and control of the Bitcoin Core code repository over to Gavin Andresen, who later became lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation. Shortly after that Nakamoto disappeared and was never heard from again although, in reality, nobody had ever physically seen him.  Andreson claims that it may have been after he told him that he had a meeting with the CIA. Well, who could blame him?  I’d have probably done the same, maybe faster.\n \nTo this day nobody can confirm whether the individual  Satoshi Nakamoto ever existed outside of a pseudonym.  I would be inclined to entertain the rumour that this Bitcoin thing was the government’s idea all along if it wasn’t for the fact that Bitcoin rests on the blockchain that, as a ledger system, allows no room for foul play.\nSo if the creator of Bitcoin, be it man or a machine, had government ties then they’ve created a tool to wipe out deception and quite possibly the government as this contradicts the ethos of government that exists to resolve conflict, now investing in conflict to justify its presence and remain significant.\nThis more socialist angle shows that if it were the government, it shot itself in the foot as each blockchain user is on a transparent system of transactions, a one size fits all situation that can only benefit the whole and eliminate contention.\n \n ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbX6T78gu7GwJYk425Q9tbU3Nm33xSTXfKq6aLSBWjfe9/image.png)\nYour money or your life\n \n \n\n \n\n \n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmcQTJYfofKWQ6YpFMFe6GKQqKJ6Xi2zAHkcE8jVLPh15E/image.png)\nWho’s laughing now?\n \n\n \n \nYet still, somewhere outside of mother natures’ cosmic order, this blockchain thing poses a problem to some mature men in small private clubs, whose white hair may as well be bum fluff for it means nothing to their juvenile moral views of the world. They stand to lose a whole lot when cryptocurrencies secure their place in trade history and they are putting hard money into its fall. At the same time investing in it, fearing they will have to try to control it too one day soon.\n \nEven a child would hope that having endured decades would produce a sagacious man that would rather lose everything he has in order to see the world with a fair system of barter simply because that’s the way it should be. Yet these boys in grey suits would rather the world lose everything it has – people, vegetation and fresh air too – for them to keep a grip on the planet’s system of trade.  What a heavy karma baring ambition.\n \nTheir overall investment is in the segregation of people, the spreading of fear and the satisfaction of knowing that the world community will always be divided and steered by their media. These are the ones that have unwittingly created these currencies as a solution to their plunging the world into darkness. So in an impalpable sense, it ‘was’ created by the government as an answer to their greed.\n \nIronically the legacy that they will share is only to make one thing certain: The word ‘Bank’ that we used to describe as a storage place for money will soon be an entry in the Urban Dictionary as a curse word.\n \n\n \n\n \n\n Final note\n\n \n\nWith the world trying to phase out Bitcoin and China’s ban on Bitcoin mining within China, the fact that they mine 60% of Bitcoin, it makes sense that the ‘Ban’ may well be an attempted takeover. Especially as 51% unified mining means a coup. A government can hijack the mining operations to ends I don’t even wish to imagine.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nphase something out\n— phrasal verb with phase verb\n \n\nto gradually stop using something:\n\n(Definition of “phase something out” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)\n \n\n \n\nBy Angel Lewis\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n For Colonel Gaddafi and his vision of a fair decentralised economy. RIP\n\n \n\nFor the Telegram groups: Bitcoin UK & Bitfriendly meetup and the helpful dialogue that shaped much of this article.",
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      "body": "I've tried to make the same point many times.  They call it Nazi gun control theory. It can be theorized back and forth by those with the time. It ain't even that deep, I call it common sense.",
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      "body": "TL; DR.  Wow! I saw that you are a friend of individual liberty though, right? If that's the case, we are friends!\n\n![Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSHqvQkvVZNzKUZpi15wedqKyN1tQJcVGnScsTSkxkcFG/Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png)\n\n### Webpages\n\nThere are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit.  Here are some of the best for beginners:\n\nhttps://steemian.info/signup-faq (This site is by @drakos and has a ton of good information for new users to help them get started.)\n\nhttps://steemd.com/  (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats.  You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day.  I keep my voting power around 80% for example.  Also use it to look at the coding for other people's posts.  If you see a formatting trick they use, you'll see the code for that trick within the post details on steemd.)\n\nhttps://steem.makerwannabe.com/  (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you.  It is great for meeting new people too.  I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)\n\nhttps://steemit.chat/  (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit.  There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site.  Come in to network and meet new friends.  You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)\n\nhttp://steemtools.com/  (This site is a comprehensive list of valuable tools.)\n\n### Bots\n\nThere are a lot of bots on Steemit.  Some are useful and good, and others are not.  If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot.  Check the account's reputation.  If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them.  Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies.  Are they all the same? It's a bot.\n\nThere's one good bot worth mentioning for new users.  It is called GINAbot, and you can use it to keep track of things the makerwannabe site above cannot easily do.  For example, GINAbot will tell you when a key phrase is used, when you or someone else is mentioned by account name, or even if someone deletes a comment.  The bot is extremely powerful and free.  Simply add the following Discord server:\n\nhttps://discord.gg/x9Empcm\n\nWhen you connect to it, it will ask you to register and verify your account with a .0001 SBD or STEEM transfer.  Then you will get a direct message from the bot with a private link to your configuration page.  Go there to setup your options.  The entire process takes 5 minutes, and it will be up and running.  You can tweak the settings as you go too.  I highly recommend people use it for networking purposes.\n\nI have mine set to look for phrases like \"residential security\" and \"private investigator\" as two examples.  Then I never miss out on content related to those, and it makes going there to engage in those conversations much easier.  Without GINAbot, I would never have had the opportunity either!  Check it out, and ask if you have any questions.\n\n### Sourcing and Adding Photos\n\nAdding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too.  The easiest way it to click to \"Submit a Story.\"  Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer.  Below the posting window, you will see \"Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them.\" Click on the blue text.  Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.\n\nHere's a link to a Google Document I made to help with the coding:\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlAoGnP8q7ZAxGsEnvza-qotUGkoaae4SwXdubAhi2g/edit?usp=sharing\n\n### Graphics, Badges, Signature Blocks, and Banners\n\nThere are many skilled and talented graphic artists on Steemit.  One of them is a close friend, @grow-pro.  He designed my signature gif, badges, divider lines, business cards, and more.  You can check out his work further on your own.  If you are looking for a graphic artist to help improve your posting images and formatting, he offers low cost services here on Steemit.  Look him up!\n\n### Account Verification\n\nVerifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more.  The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account.  \n\nFor example, I share my Steemit posts on my @finnianGC Twitter account.  Another way would be to add your Steemit information to your Facebook account.  Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped.  \n\nThe more famous a person is and the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify.\n\n### Security\n\nDo not use your owner key to log into Steemit.com to post.  Use your private posting key instead.  Keep your owner key offline as much as possible, and only use it when you must.  \n\nPer the advice given by Arcanage, you should only use your owner key to:\n\n1. Recover your account.\n2. Change the other keys.\n3. Give a present to your children a few minutes before dying.\n\nThere have been some scams in the past.  If you click a link to a site that prompts you to log into it, be extra careful.  Double and triple check the address to make sure it is really steemit.com.  A recent scam was using \"lsteemit\" as the domain name, and people were entering their owner keys to log into it.  That allowed the scammers to take those user's accounts, empty the money from them, and then ruin their reputation by using the newly hacked accounts to further the scam.\n\nIf you find or suspect a scam, please report it in the #steemitabuse channel on steemit.chat.\n\n### Don't Lose Your Content\n\nMake sure you are copying and pasting your post content often as you write it, and put the data into another document to avoid losing it.  I'll copy and paste my content into a Google document as just one example.  Some people use Markup editors to do the same.\n\nDefinitely keep a backup copy right before you post it too, for some people have come back the next day to see half or the entire post missing even though the day before it displayed correctly.  Make sure you copy and backup your long replies as well, for they can vanish immediately after clicking to post them.\n\n### Engagement and Authored Posts\n\nIn the beginning, unless you purchase some Steem Power, your account will be extremely limited in bandwidth.  You can see the bandwidth you have on the steemd.com site.  Since you only have limited amounts, it is best to use your bandwidth to engage others instead of authoring long and detailed posts.  Once you have more SP in your account and more followers, then I recommend people start authoring more.  Never stop engaging other people though through replies.  It is the best way to gain followers and build your network with quality people.\n\n![Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSHqvQkvVZNzKUZpi15wedqKyN1tQJcVGnScsTSkxkcFG/Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png)\n\nAgain, welcome!  If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site or reply to this post.",
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Instinctively, I look for an envelope or some other icon on the phone menu showing a possible missed call, something or other. I see a caution sign, I’m thinking maybe the battery needs replacing or there’s a serious software issue. Naturally, I explore and the alert reads ‘Enable Google Play services.’ Really, I must? I thought I’d ignore it but it kept coming back. After spending precious time that I did not plan to spend, I still couldn’t disable it. Totally frustrated I eventually give in to the pressure as I realise, not that it won’t stop but it can’t stop, it’s an alert that’s not designed to be turned off. Does this sound like a typical event in your smart (er than you) phone life?\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbN9NpgNFzy1Xp2LBC8twJTziUFkvUuBYUtLh8Ar7sacQ/image.png)\n\nNowadays this type of android-human master-slave interaction gets me more and more frustrated. When I think about the number of details I’m forced to provide just to open an online trading account: email verification, card details, text verification messages, addressed utility bill and passport scans, I often think about who’s collecting all this information. Behind the request, there is no face yet we have come to accept this. We send verified personal data to an unknown source.\n\n \n\nEqually as precluding, yet much more intrusive is the fact that my phones message bar has a yellow symbol that stops me in my tracks giving me yet another piece of vital information – ‘Try another level on Pacman.’ What? I quit that game last Wednesday. It was full of ads which I also couldn’t figure out how to disable. All because Google Play allows this activity to (by default) come out of their game area and run free into my personal phone space for a fee.  I thought that those icons were for messages from friends, family and associates, silly me.\n\nI started thinking about those Orwellian movies of the past and unfortunately, parallels began to form in my mind. Most of the early Sci-Fi movies portrayed the future as a plutocracy of amalgamated corporations that answered to nobody, placed its stamp on everything from food and clothing to cars and property, and existed mainly to squeeze the life force out of humans for what appeared to be economic profit.\n\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNj1pTLN1irALSnjvdM3wootuMeiQb89hmga2frwQNb96/image.png)\n\nHere’s my line of thought:\n\nAfter reading yet another message on my phone ‘Would you like to sign in with Google?’ for the hundredth time, it dawned on me that incessant Google software will stop at nothing and is totally devoted to keeping and storing ALL of my passwords and will not tire of asking. It knows, better than I do, the combination of letters and digits that I’m afraid to forget and too lazy to write down on paper, let alone type in. For me, with my several writing pads, diaries, and pieces of uncategorised thoughts written on stickies around the house, noting down isn’t the best option. So they’re all safely stored in the browser. Did I say ‘safely’ and ‘browser’ in the same sentence?\n\nYes, the browser. I vaguely remember switching from the Safari browser to Google Chrome some years ago, Why? Well besides the fact that Safari only updates their browser once in a blue moon with Apple’s new operating system, Google suggested it (actually maybe more than suggested it). After consistently trying to persuade me with the efficiency of a machine, I finally gave in and, since I was on my back (injured) in a state of submission, I also agreed to its suggestions of making Google my homepage, search engine and father of my mac. Their software is dedicated to being a total pain until you submit to its will, with constant bullying and countless reasons to eventually make the first thing you see when you go online the G-word.  You can feel an attitude of authority, it’s not asking you it’s telling you.  Then again, it’s not dissimilar to the ‘Updates available’ messages from the App store abuse I suffer every other day on my MacBook, which, if you think about it, in both cases it’s a type of digital rape.\n\n \n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZ7uyWDYqesw4jUY3NWDQoEgTDsrbj9amedHW1ZvHR9wA/image.png)\n\n \n\nBut I’m your friend.\n \n\nI always found it odd that when a felon is caught, they are often supported by their peers, and even friends sometimes, who describe them as a quiet and fun-loving character and seem to want to stress that they could never have imagined them committing a crime. These innocent, fun looking brands are no different.\n\nThey deceive us by appealing to the emotional, needy or the fun side of our personalities. Just look at the innocuously branded Google logo, totalitarianism innocently hides in plain sight of your life, no longer needing to ask of your trust as it has been burned into the sub-conscience from years of security suggestions and friendly warnings forming a neurological bond; it’s your buddy. Like the friendly neighbour, it tries to coax assist with creating a Gmail account at every chance, also in the name of convenience and it’s friendly cookie policy takes note of all the places you’ve looked just to suggest things that will appeal to your interests.\n\nOh! the price of convenience. As many would assume, all these different services are separate ones, but when you put it all together Google has many eyes and ears and is not your friend at all but the holder and keeper of your digital tattoo.\n\nNo matter how many times we are addressed with personalised greetings or how often they change and animate that logo, these are corporations with no feelings. But our senses take leave and are overtaken by emotions, especially when our heroes and the pioneers of our personal causes are constantly being honoured, pushing emotional buttons that turn us into little puppies rolling over to have our bellies tickled.\n\nWhether it’s Marcus Garvey, Rosa Parks, Che Guevara or John Lennon, Google has all the intricate details of our lives, beliefs, and influences and will use them as needed. Meanwhile, we will be ignoring voluminous cookie policies and skimming through privacy updates to login to a page orquickly get the address of that shop, allowing these violations to continue.\n\nGoing further with this thought, I’m still shocked at the numerous amount of passwords Google browsers must hold worldwide, by any other subsidiary name, which leads me to think about the prompt on my their mobile phone, after opening almost any App, for me to get a Google account or log into one to access the full contents of the App that I sideloaded. Sometimes it wants to verify whether the download is considered ‘Safe’ before it resides on your phone. Thank you so much God-gle, you’re so considerate.\n\n \n\n \n\nSorry, did I say ‘Your Phone?‘\n \n\nIn reality, when you are forced to download, upload, allow or give up such personal details in order to get basic functionality on your device it is everything but your own, trust me. You are literally forced to comply. With this, we should really be aware that the intention never was about freedom on your device but simply to employ methods to extract, collect and then store your details somewhere (normally on a server overseas). Normally this is in order to further figure out who, why, and what you are doing, along with analysing your personal habits to further market to you. Do remember that the excuse for all this sensationalised security started with terrorism.\n\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWwB1krnhCNijbaT4AtUTNzCCJi4tWTZNUXtQrxNjqcJi/image.png)\n \n\n\nA gift for who, me?? I’m not playing Pacman I’m at work.\n \n\nLet’s not be too overly concerned with being hijacked by foreign forces; our home security has already taken custody of our information, we just haven’t noticed. In 2017, Forbes named Google the # 2 most valuable brand in the world which means that it’s value: your data, is of great interest to those seeking you out for whatever reason, corporate or legal.  It’s also Google that asks for your location every time you want to find a shop, travel locally or abroad and sometimes even to download a simple App.  It asks you to trust it on judging an Apps worthiness to be on your/it’s phone. So let’s not get mesmerised by the bouncing letters and the cool Hip Hopness of the corporate data collecting machine, it has a very serious job and you’re it.\n\n \n\nTrusted Sources\n \n\nSpeaking of Jobs, it’s not just Google. Apple has its own subtle intrusions too, especially since Steve Jobs’ departure in 2011 (RIP).\n\nIn 2017, Forbes called out Apple and named them the most profitable company in the world. With this kind of money, it seems obvious that their interests will be strongly geared towards collating data to secure more bespoke sales and increase their profits. If you happen to have a logo of an Apple on any of your hardware your updates, downloads and purchases will come with conditions, constantly prompting updates they may take a little more freedom away each time you do, again in the name of security. Aren’t you even slightly suspicious of going into a store and having to log in to be served?\n\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmegqrLh6UeQJZU6suApXzmQhAyMR8DWa5iQuLyZgjcy5H/image.png)\n\n\nSaying that, it also must be said that Apple are a little less intrusive than some others, mainly because the real estate on their computer is owned by and for them and not leased out, so the experience may be considered a little more of a personal one. On the other hand, most other PC’s (Windows) lease out space for Antiviruses, maps and a host of other software nuisances on their computers, straight out of the box. All these are provided by third-party’s to annoy you with warnings of being infected and spied on, once again, in the name of security.  Digital terrorism, no?\n\n(https://steemitimages.com/DQmboJLVMxEKSjULiDRBXvUzGXMNX4DtR7qpUEo7gmba42u/image.png)\nSounds like controlling the flow of information to me.\n \n\nFacebook has it’s bullyboy methods too. Yes, you can log in to Facebook on a mobile phone but just try to reply or even view a message and you will be occluded and held on a screen that insists you download their App before you can continue. They even entice you with the names of your friends that have succumbed to their digital seduction.\n\nBut then they do make it clear in their user agreement that they own ‘EVERYTHING’ that you place on their platform. I have no idea on earth why they would benefit from owning pictures of your children, friends, holidays and gossip conversations, but even more baffling is why we allow it.\n\nI will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that it’s because in the very likely event of their server being hacked and pictures of your loved ones turn up on some disfavourable platform they can cede liability and avoid class action lawsuits of an unbearably large geographical scale. FYI, at the time of this writing, Apple phones allow you to use the full functionality of Facebook, including messaging, without having to download the Facebook Messenger App.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmW8k2a6vSwugZH8ijdx6j36V4aFfAbw9Jorgmr55q6Csi/image.png)\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRRJDfZ4SzD618VBX9GFFQF2J5AqyzDsfZmTWsGcZHex6/image.png)\n\n \n\nOk, who’s idea was it…I mean who decided that because I have Adblocker on my browser, every time I try to log into my email a big intrusive  **** off pop up will ask me to switch it off, EVERY SINGLE TIME!  There’s no thought that we may not want to have a relentless bully reminding us that they can make it inconvenient for us if we decide to resist their ads with an Ad blocker because we don’t want their programming in our heads.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNMfFrF7BX6JqN97Smka47BH8ekUQWHGa3UWthyi1PoZM/image.png)\nOwn your ass.\nWhy not login with your thumbprint, it’s safer?\n \n\nFrom 2010 to 2011, Google acquired one company per week. That’s 52 companies in that year. It’s now seven years on and they have not gotten any smaller, go figure. Google has now been re-organized into a subsidiary of a larger holding company under the name Alphabet. Their stated acquisitions total over 400 companies including Motorola mobile technology as well as Pitt Patt and Viewdle, facial recognition systems. Why?\n\nWhen I think about Motorola I think about the traditional US police communication systems since the 70’s (maybe earlier). It’s as American as the Statue Of Liberty (no, maybe French fries…Apple pie?) and seems a very totalitarian move. That along with two other face recognition companies has to at least form a question mark over the mind.\n\n \n\nhttps://urbandandylondon.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/5b9eaf5c9124c0ba875117bc3c9dc99f-police-radio-cruisers.jpg![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSFcTwXsURFbkwzrJSrVZP3iab8oHjqYT1VUa4pcjcaLa/image.png)\nGoogle own that too.\n \n\nEvery splinter company of Google, from phone to browser to translation software, is another eye peeping into our private lives and sending it to its central brain somewhere forever. Now I know some will say ‘So what, I have nothing to hide.’ But just think, if the Google empire happened to disagree with something you wrote, bought or even thought. Forty billion dollars would easily make it possible for you, your family, friends acquaintances and the entire block you live on to disappear if need be, with added legal muscle just so it doesn’t surface in the News.\n\nA representative from the relevant branch of its hundreds of subsidiary companies would find it quite easy to locate your front door,  knowing your ETA with accuracy beyond belief. What they’d want to do – I have no idea, but you’ve logged your address, friends, family, habits, interests, frequent travel locations, purchases, favourite websites, attractions, medical/psychological conditions, your diet, politics, concerns, wish lists and so on, on their huge database. Put it this way, if Hitler had this type of machine way back then, we would all be German subjects. It’s just too much power for anything besides God to hold. But I’m sure it wouldn’t happen, would it?\n\nIn reality, very few of us make a business of crime or choose to engage in pointless threats towards our own humankind, it seems that today those who do, tend to do this by pushing free social media platforms online to eventually steal personal information to sell on the black market. Our only crime is that some of us don’t always want to be made a study of and we like to choose who and when we want to share our sensitive and personal data and maybe want to be able to physically face those that require it without having to lose functionality on our devices. By being bullied into giving up our information to an anonymous corporation brings us back to the harsh reality of how close we are to a totalitarian system, especially when you realise that you will probably never ever see those that are utilising it.\n\n \n\nMundus Vult Decipi, Ergo Decipiatur\nThe world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived (Maxim at Law).\n \nhttps://urbandandylondon.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/regina-devil-dugan.jpg![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVcHFo3hg7StXSdUbnanTCTfeMzaDAhtsVN2zFtyTGiYg/image.png)\nregina devil dugan\nRegina Dugan, looking much like a gynoid. Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company\n \n\nIn 2012 Regina Dugan, inventor and technology developer left her government role for an executive role at Google. She had previously served as the 19th Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She joined Facebook in 2016 as head of their secretive hardware lab called Building 8 in 2015 (secretive).\n\nBefore she made a decision to leave Facebook after only 18 months she made a very worrying pitch at the Facebook F8 developer conference in 2017. One particular statement served as a peep into the strange mind of the Google and government android.  “What if you could type just using your brain”. She said with not a hint of satire. She was being literal. The shocking thing for me wasn’t the nonsense that was being said but who was saying it.\n\nMany abstract questions are asked in asylums and institutions where people are nursed back to health with intentions of getting back in touch with reality, but when a woman (Mother Nature) with strong working ties to Google, Facebook and NASA with the money and ability to literally place this chip in your head makes such statements, we’re f*****.\n\nBut even more worrying is the fact that most are so conditioned to accept convenience at any cost because they too have lost their grip on reality and what organic life was meant to be that they will entertain this absurdity. Or maybe they have seen Minority Report and know it’s a step closer to predictive policing. Can’t we just pretend there’s a God, maybe just as a template, then throw it out when we remember the point of life again?  Maybe Mother Nature has a jealous rival that wants to be known as father nature at any cost who many women represent.\n\n \n\nSo to recap, the science fiction plutocratic dictators that you were hoping never existed were sitting there on your browser all along.  And the only reason you didn’t identify them was because of the shiny stuff and their fun, bright and friendly looking, goofy name. And the motive? = Information.\n\n\n\n ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY6fmT9zFQaVnkiMBbfwH1LqmfUjkVRtu7YzTwja3W2gh/image.png)\n\nI hope you feel a lack of agenda here and just a small desire to share and possibly encourage us to be a little less trusting of these major corporations online and possibly get you to leave the phone at home sometimes, and for God’s sake stop walking while you’re texting on the phone.\n\n \n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPznwgMyKm15R2y6AR616NGoQVHLecvnNpjDLLKn4CXCU/image.png)\n\n\n \n\n________________________________________________________________\nFinal Thoughts\n\nWe hate to end on a down so we'll leave it to you to decide on the authenticity of the story from the longest/best selling book of all time.\n\nIn the final hours of the character they called Jesus's life, Pontius Pilate - the Roman governor - cunningly asked an ignorant people to choose between Barabbus the thief and Jesus the saviour to decide who was more worthy of freedom. The decision that followed was made by the mass misinformed. Thier disillusioned state appeared obvious to the informed (government and the few awake). Pontius Pilate got his way and the people went down in history as the authors of the most colossal Fup in the history of time. And by that, we don't mean Fair usage policy.\n\nWe are at the dawn of another ignorance that keeps our focus on technology as a thing of wonder and turns us away from this wonderful revival of spirit and the waking of our inner tuition. Today, more than ever ethereal messages are being sent out and picked up by connected individuals through the same ether that has always existed but on a higher crest. The irony is that the non-tangible realm that science has convinced us doesn't exist is being exploited by science. It's used as a model to replicate natures communication channels with waves and frequencies that you cannot touch, see or even perceive for the most part, yet you accept it as is. 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