If it's important it will appear somewhere with a more sober and grounded analysis. Conspiracy theorists are suffering from pathological levels of FOMO.
I don't know if you realize what that channel is. It's not a religious channel at all, nor a conspiracy theory channel. For years, "CoinBureau" has published some of the most wide-ranging and grounded analysis on everything around the crypto space, from regulations (FATCA, the CFTC-SEC spat, etc.) to each technology (Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, etc.) and how they work. It doesn't really shill anything, either. However, one recurring theme is how "they" (the globalists / UN / FATCA / WEF / China etc.) are building out their centralized tool, and what it means for crypto. So it tackles these "big" themes.
I'm surprised so many people Hacker News are uninterested in real decentralization and giving power to the people. After all, one would think that "hacker culture" would be very much against Big Corporations and governments controlling everything. It used to be a counterculture, with cypherpunks, phreaking, and DIY ham radio operators, etc. Today, it seems many of the people were gobbled up by the system and actively support centralized Big Tech solutions. Anything that smells of decentralization is downvoted and even flagged by a sizable number of people on Hacker News. It's ironic in a way, but there it is.
> this begs the question of how the UN will force the average person to adopt an actual digital ID after their respective governments finish rolling them out in 2025. by now you'll know that the only way is to create a crisis which requires the use of digital ID
> which therefore begs the question of what's coming. my bets are on the upcoming energy crisis the upcoming food crisis and the upcoming financial crisis.
then he sarcastically backpedals.
> if my tin foil hat is receiving the correct signals so to speak a financial crisis won't come until the second half of the decade when most central banks feel comfortable with their cbdcs this doesn't mean we couldn't see some
economic crash between now and then but I reckon there's room for one more
multi-year zero interest rate
Well, that's called editorializing. Many mainstream channels do it. Do you flag those, too?
Usually, a video that has LITERAL LINKS to the very things they're digesting for you (hosted by the UN, US Congress, and WEF, etc.) all gathered in one place, you'd think that was useful enough to discuss on Hacker News, no?
t used to be a counterculture, with cypherpunks, phreaking, and DIY ham radio operators, etc. Today, it seems many of the people were gobbled up by the system and actively support centralized Big Tech solutions.
Still is. Thing is, just because something is decentralized or against the incumbent system doesn't mean it's good. There are lots of grifters and opportunists across the socio-political spectrum that seek to exploit idealism and frustration for selfish ends, funneling people towards cults, scams etc. etc.. If it's wrapped in the language of religiosity or ideology it's generally a hard pass from me.
Also, video in general is a very inefficient way to communicate information.
I would similarly ignore a video about broccoli that opened with an ominous quote from Nostradamus, but in the US, conspiracies are often fueled by christo-fascist fantasies tied directly to literalized bible verses. His intention is existential import and doom. The proof is in the latter half of the video, where he claims the UN is going to orchestrate global crises to ensure adoption. Keep it on boomer Facebook, please.
The video in the last 5 minutes discusses what if communities had their own currencies, and their own social platforms. But someone has to build it. And it takes time. Sometimes an entire decade. But if we the people don't get our act together, the outcome in the video is to be expected.
Back in 2011, I saw this and started a company to try to build a viable open-source alternative to Big Tech. While we were building, I saw Diaspora*, Mastodon, etc. SoLiD (now Inrupt) by TimBL, and others. But none of those can compete with Big Tech on features.
I launched https://Qbix.com hired some developers in Ukraine and put out apps for community leaders, that now have been downloaded by over 10 million people in over 120 countries. We translated it into 15 languages. But the apps were relatively simple. We reinvested $1M of our profits into the Qbix Platform, which is supposed to be an open-source Social Operating System that takes what Big Tech has (but will never give you) and give it to the people.
You can play around with it now. But you might want to wait until version 2.0 is released, with all the documentation, in 15 languages. Anyway it's free and open source at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
We went further, spinning off a separate new company called Intercoin to build Web3 smart contracts, so that communities can do all the following things without trusting any middlemen, not even their own corporate directors: https://intercoin.org/applications
But most implementations are designed to be local. Smart contracts are optional, but once the community gets large enough that a few people start being in charge of securing a lot of money, votes, or whatever, that's when they become useful.
In my experience, talking to VCs and other capitalists, most of them feel we are doing "too much". But I feel the rest of the liberty-loving world isn't doing enough*. At least I put my own money where my mouth is, and built it, and now we're giving it away. Use it ... if you want.
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If it's important it will appear somewhere with a more sober and grounded analysis. Conspiracy theorists are suffering from pathological levels of FOMO.
I'm surprised so many people Hacker News are uninterested in real decentralization and giving power to the people. After all, one would think that "hacker culture" would be very much against Big Corporations and governments controlling everything. It used to be a counterculture, with cypherpunks, phreaking, and DIY ham radio operators, etc. Today, it seems many of the people were gobbled up by the system and actively support centralized Big Tech solutions. Anything that smells of decentralization is downvoted and even flagged by a sizable number of people on Hacker News. It's ironic in a way, but there it is.
Hmm, from your video:
> this begs the question of how the UN will force the average person to adopt an actual digital ID after their respective governments finish rolling them out in 2025. by now you'll know that the only way is to create a crisis which requires the use of digital ID
> which therefore begs the question of what's coming. my bets are on the upcoming energy crisis the upcoming food crisis and the upcoming financial crisis.
then he sarcastically backpedals.
> if my tin foil hat is receiving the correct signals so to speak a financial crisis won't come until the second half of the decade when most central banks feel comfortable with their cbdcs this doesn't mean we couldn't see some economic crash between now and then but I reckon there's room for one more multi-year zero interest rate
Usually, a video that has LITERAL LINKS to the very things they're digesting for you (hosted by the UN, US Congress, and WEF, etc.) all gathered in one place, you'd think that was useful enough to discuss on Hacker News, no?
Still is. Thing is, just because something is decentralized or against the incumbent system doesn't mean it's good. There are lots of grifters and opportunists across the socio-political spectrum that seek to exploit idealism and frustration for selfish ends, funneling people towards cults, scams etc. etc.. If it's wrapped in the language of religiosity or ideology it's generally a hard pass from me.
Also, video in general is a very inefficient way to communicate information.
A bible quote does not change that.
Why?
Back in 2011, I saw this and started a company to try to build a viable open-source alternative to Big Tech. While we were building, I saw Diaspora*, Mastodon, etc. SoLiD (now Inrupt) by TimBL, and others. But none of those can compete with Big Tech on features.
I launched https://Qbix.com hired some developers in Ukraine and put out apps for community leaders, that now have been downloaded by over 10 million people in over 120 countries. We translated it into 15 languages. But the apps were relatively simple. We reinvested $1M of our profits into the Qbix Platform, which is supposed to be an open-source Social Operating System that takes what Big Tech has (but will never give you) and give it to the people.
You can play around with it now. But you might want to wait until version 2.0 is released, with all the documentation, in 15 languages. Anyway it's free and open source at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
Somewhere around 2017 I wrote a vision of where we were and how we can go further: https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/
We went further, spinning off a separate new company called Intercoin to build Web3 smart contracts, so that communities can do all the following things without trusting any middlemen, not even their own corporate directors: https://intercoin.org/applications
One target market for instance is a fund for refugees: https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees
But most implementations are designed to be local. Smart contracts are optional, but once the community gets large enough that a few people start being in charge of securing a lot of money, votes, or whatever, that's when they become useful.
In my experience, talking to VCs and other capitalists, most of them feel we are doing "too much". But I feel the rest of the liberty-loving world isn't doing enough*. At least I put my own money where my mouth is, and built it, and now we're giving it away. Use it ... if you want.