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In hindsight, we should have done this right away to reduce risk Thank you for your patience I will report back when the job is done and look forward to sharing the lessons I’ve learned over the past 2 weeks

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2/ when

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started, vast majority of people simply didn't understand how Bitcoin worked. We would explain censorship resistance theoretically. Only practical examples at scale were online drug markets. Criminals are always earliest adopters of powerful new technologies.

3/ and that would leave people skeptical or worse. when we would insist that non-criminals, people merely left behind by the financial system, would benefit. we would get answers like this:

4/ "ON THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN OF TIBET, THERE IS SOMEBODY WITH A $100 BILL THAT THEY ARE HOLDING ON TO, AND ON EVERY CELL PHONE THERE'S A WAY TO USE DOLLARS OR EUROS" (c-span.org/video/?c472819 )

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3/ Lately we've seen those humanitarian bitcoin users show up: Nigeria's Feminist Coalition, Belarus' BYSOL, and Afghanistan's Code to Inspire. We've worked our hardest to highlight these uses. But folks still write these off as mere isolated anecdotes.

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4/ Canada is different. You can't argue that its an isolated place with bad financial services. Can't argue that there isn't direct state censorship of payment platforms (they're doing it in the open). You can't, as an American, xenophobically dismiss their problems as "foreign."

5/ This is a highly connected, tech savvy community. They will easily get access to tools like software/hardware wallets, which will allow them to use Bitcoin without intermediaries. The only way to stop it will be actual physical raids on homes and vehicles. Every single one.