Bitcoin was gifted to us as a monetary system resistant to inflation, corruption, and surveillance. While the design was groundbreaking, Satoshi didn’t have the bandwidth to address all of the glitches that bitcoin would encounter:
- Cash-for-pull-requests
- Core centralisation
- Fake bitcoin (Spark, e-cash etc.)
- Mal-implementations
- Treasury companies
… to name a few.
You can’t fix a system problem from inside a problem system.
– Systems Engineering – Module 1001
Fortunately, bitcoin is not inherently complex, and it’s clear that many of the un-cooperative actors are merely acting rationally based on incentives; often hidden incentives.
With Core and Blockstream etc. navigating through stormy weather, there’s a window of opportunity for a fresh new team – maximally cypherpunk and freedom orientated – to help progress bitcoin and freedomtech, using a based new approach and new methods. As well as delivering high quality and carefully designed open-source solutions and tools, we can operate within the cultural fabric, and de-silo our movement by interconnecting with individuals and organisations that share our values: doctors… theologians… campaigners… hyper-connected with a shared mission to let freedom reign.
Building on the efforts of others who refuse to submit to plutocratic centralised rule… We can connect open source money to freedom medicine; free markets; freedom of thought; freedom to worship and think and speak…
By zooming-out and recognising bitcoin merely as a sub-component of the future that we want to build, will can diffuse barriers and help connect the efforts of the many individuals and organisations with aligned values.
There’s an urgent need to light to enable the next generation of freedom engineers to take the reigns decentralised money. This project’s recruitment operation will favour the recruitment of the new guard over the old guard for executive positions, and in doing so, create a fresh pipeline of new heroes guided by the wisdom and experience of past generations in predominantly advisory roles.
