WTC [WAS] Do you have predictions about 2017?

[jim bell]

 From: grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>

>Rather amazed AP hasn't yet risen (publicly) to affect things.
No disagreement from me on that!  When I proposed AP almost 22 years ago, https://cryptome.org/ap.htm, I believed that the possibilities and advantages of the system would be immediately debated and decided upon.  A lot of debate did indeed occur, but even today the average person remains unaware that there is a solution to militaries and war, to government and tyranny.  How long until freedom breaks out and lives?
Most of the initial objection to AP was either dishonest or uninformed.  Perhaps many people could not imagine that a complex system of software could exist that would maintain anonymity, but two decades of software development (TOR, Bitcoin, Silk Road and its successors, Ethereum, and Augur) should prove to everyone that we are up to the task.  I claimed that AP would eliminate both war an militaries.  People have claimed they want to end both for centuries.  Well, finally they actually get the promise of such an outcome, and a plausible mechanism to do so, and they fail or refuse to address the issue.  Maybe they don't really want peace:  They merely want the continuation of the status quo.  They want their kind of people in control.  And when they get upset, it is only because they are losing control.
        Jim Bell








   
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