I fully agree with your words. In 2017 many people seem to believe that blockchain is going to bring back power to people (did we ever have power?) and that it will give us more privacy.
The sad truth is that technology is always being used by our rulers to increase control over population and blockchain most likely will give them more control than we can even imagine.
The idea that all records on blockchain are public and idea of "transparency" is nothing more than that.
we're getting closer to a very dark future.
Indeed. Whoever think otherwise is living in lala-dream world :(
How many of you already, cover your webcam
That is actually very silly to do. I've noticed that some people cover webcam worried that they would be spyied on. That just doesnt make sense at all.
Who our there would possibly care about seeing our face, while they can record our convesations on mobile devices. Somehow those few friend who cover their webcam are not really worried about having their iphones next to them. And they are talking about politics, migration etc. without any concerns. How silly is that?
The rise of Privacy Tokens is the result of us trying to escape government surveillance and essentially control
That's in my opinion just an illusion. Goverments will easily know most of those who purchased those privacy tokens and they will most likely be marked as a "potential threat". I can only imagine that purchasing those tokens will bring more unwanted attention.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but we can already witness pressure on exchanges to collect and report activity of it's users. So it will be quite easy to connect dots.
The government should be more transparent with today’s society
Lovely Xmas wishes. But it ain't going to happend :(
That very bigsnowball you've mentioned at the end is nothing else as "snowball of full control". The best thing we can all do is to stay "under the radar".
Yours
Piotr
RE: The truth behind Decentralized Exchanges and the ongoing fight against Mass Surveillance