How Crypto Is Breaking Governmental Facades and Expunging Its Mindless Aim To Control.

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One of the reasons why people cannot reach certain stages beyond their mental comprehension in life is due to the illusion of limitation. Limitation is often seen as contentment. In places like Nigeria, people have naturally limited the exposure to opportunities which limits their financial transactions and the extent to which they can express their monetary capabilities.

One of the biggest lies ever told by the government is that crypto is dangerous and that people should protect their money and not risk scams. Originally, this statement might signal safety and the need to protect the finances of the citizenry, but deep down, it comes as a need to establish limitations.

I've seen organizations where it's prohibited for people to hold two or more jobs, while this is to create an establishment for loyalty, the truth is, people are driven towards limitations to decrease their choices in life.

But wait.... There's more

To most developing countries, the impact of crypto isn't just simply liberating, one thing it also does (crypto) is that it crashes that invisible peg thereby proving to people that there's a pathway in that place where it seems there are no opportunities.

Crypto synonymizes opportunities beyond conventional provision. In places where people are still unread or ignorant, crypto is still painted as "dangerous", but in places where the citizens are already aware of its potential, what their government does is slap tax on its ownership or transaction.

It looks as if this is to keep people in check and monitor their activities. At a time, it's being said that the complete anonymity behind the crypto transaction is being used to sponsor terrorism, but deep down we all know most governments are saddened because there's nothing in it for them.


Money & Government; The Craft

When people are taxed for owning or spending crypto, it's just the government accepting its sovereignty and inevitability in the aspect of commerce and how it's become embedded into the core fabrics of economics and lives of people, in other to still exert control, what they create is an illusion.

I remember Zack @selfhelpfortrolls telling me how he was trying to be careful with his crypto transactions as this could mean heavy taxation and scrutinization of his accounts. The truth is, we fear some of these excesses, some of us fear the overtures of government especially when it comes to crypto.

This fear alone is an establishment of limitation which makes it difficult for people to reach a financial height beyond their reckoning. This is simple, the world itself is limited by default, and the government of many developing countries is an agent of limitation.


Needless to say, limitation isn't security.


It is just trying to create a stopping point to how people can express their exploratory tendencies. Safety is a word that's often paraded a lot, but then, the intent is just to create zombie control and this is even extended to people's properties.

Some days ago, I was trying to make some transactions on my mobile bank app. Because I changed my phone, the bank automatically slapped me a daily limit with which I can transact my money.

Noticed how I made emphasis on "my money?" Irrespective of the fact that it's my money, the fact that it's in their system, there's a tendency that they'll control my spending, and my budgeting and economic activities will rotate around the choices they've made on my behalf. Now, someone might ask, how the banks relate to the government, and here's how.


The government as a parastatal is a political squid with its tentacles entwined in the very fabrics of the economy.


.......Their functions taps into the grassroots of many sectors, mind you, this isn't because of democracy, it's a bid to limit, check or control people. The reason why crypto is always being mentioned in the aspect of safety is simply that its capabilities aren't just limited to helping people to enrich their lives.

Nevertheless, let's acknowledge its excesses and the risks that come with it, nevertheless, are these risks worth the aimless attempts to keep people away from it? No. There are so many convectional ways at being financially free, but it's congested and crowded meaning that financial freedom in the traditional way can become a rat race, where the most connected or the most equipped are often favored.

Crypto knows no race, no color, or enablements and this is why it'll play a crucial role in breaking the facade of safety established by most government bodies.




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Crypto knows no race, no color, or enablements and this is why it'll play a crucial role in breaking the facade of safety established by most government bodies.

True and it is perhaps one of the reasons why most governments are not welcoming crypto. They will lose control somehow.

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In places like Nigeria, they're actually tightening their hold to a particular extent. I hope I'll witness when they'll lose this control.

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Hoping for that too. Although here in my country, things are at least better. I read that our central bank was one of the first to install Bitcoin ATM some years ago.

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What king wants a rival? 😁

But rather than fight for control, embracing the endless possibilities crypto would bring to the economy, the government, the people and posterity.

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That we hope to happen, for everyone to embrace the limitless possibilities of crypto and innovation and prosper

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It's easier for politicians when people don't understand what happens to maintain their power and control. It's kind of bad but I really do wish things like financial education I doubt the government is really interested in doing so because people spending helps their economy.

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But we could easily say they don't aim to control just for the fun of it. It's rewarding. I think most government would rather people remain in the dark.

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Yes. They'd rather have people in the dark to have their heads to sit on.

Like you have rightly said, this isn't to vilify the sovereignty of the government but to take away the opportunities for evolution and, as well, financial liberation from the people, which is clearly contrary to safety and in alignment with the subjugation of the people to what's in it for them.

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I saw a movie once and a villain made a statement... He said...

Man yearns for control or at least the illusion of the same.

Simply put, the masses would go into total chaos without some sort of control.

But one certainty that exists alongside this fact is that

Man yearns to be the one in control.

It seems like there is a constant battle between being in control and being controlled. Most people don't want the responsibility that comes with handling their own finances so they leave it to the government and regulatory agencies. Money decisions can be really tasking and it takes someone who has a huge sense of responsibility to think or being in total control of his finances and the truth is there aren't many of them.

People just want to spend their money, but the hard decision of investing and prioritizing are all things they want to avoid.

As much as I am all for crypto taking control away from the government and putting it in the hands of the masses, I fear that some people would be fall into a catastrophic financial mess as a result.

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Thanks for that extraordinary input. I am not one to vilify the sovereignty of government, I just feel like people should have the freedom to choose Crypto. The endless control is in a bid to rip people off while preventing them from the exposure of a lifelong opportunity. The fact that the government has banned Crypto trading in Nigeria takes away many potentialities.
Crypto isn't really taking control, it's the government feeling threatened and in a sophisticated system crypto and the government should exist together.

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I certainly agree with you that the move for control that the government imposes on people regarding crypto is fed by stark ignorance and insecurity, to say the least. It's especially sad in Nigeria whose economy would benefit a whole deal from the crypto space and events that take place in the same.

But somehow, even in places where crypto is legal, the government still seeks control of the space because they have realized that...

if you can't beat them, fake like you are with them until you can beat them.

It's a sad reality, but it's a reality all the same

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The struggle between the crypto community and governments has only just begun.

I do hope that hive will stay a lot longer in the shadows, because we better be prepared when governments start to try to regulate what we do here.

I love playing splinterlands and I really hope that won’t be seen as work. Otherwise I might have to pay a lot of tax.

As long as it is an just an investment asset, then it is not so bad. But if doing the Daily missions and grinding for end of season rewards or renting cards to other players would be seen as work, then that cost a lot of tax here in the Netherlands.

Still, it is a lot better than every transaction being a taxable event or forbidden. Those are probably the worst.

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Wow this is a serious situation. I do not know that it is possible to tax even a game that ends your income such as splinterlands. As for Hive, staying under the radar for too long will not do us good.
I think every venture that has to relate with blockchain or cryptocurrency at one point in time we face government regulation
And this is because I can only see an upward movement, mass adoption and thriving driving blockchain projects.
We're preparing for a lot in the future.

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it will be a long time before they figure out how splinterlands works, but play2earn gets more and more attention

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Glad to see we are slowly moving away with banks vs crypto.
It’s more us moving away from everything that control our behavior.
Banks are doing business and the less we give them the better we are.
Crypto is the eye opener cause you hold your token and become a bank as well.

!BEER

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Hahaha I like the part where you said "hold my crypto and become a bank as well. I believe we are going to keep having issues between crypto and bank. This is because the government will keep using banks to warn people that crypto is allegedly dangerous

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Crypto synonymizes opportunities beyond conventional provision

It's so disrupting to the current economic system, they have to keep it in check like you said, taxing it.

But we know who the true terrorists are in this case... the legal mafia that taxes its people.

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LOL how is crypto doing shit against governments if their biggest product is a pegged coin that represents a fiat currency?

Second, how is crypto not government-controlled when Ethereum and other centralized chains are literally advisers to WEF?

Third, how do you acquire proof of taking coins without first acquiring stake? From a central party which is a choke point, so in essence, all POS coins are captured

This crypto larping like in any way shape or form anti-government is a joke

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Crypto is a euphemism for many things though. In any case, going back to crypto, looking at where we are today, the government getting involved, as you've pointed out, kind of buttresses the point that Government wants you to be dependent on them. That's why they have their hands up everyone's asses.

If all Arsenal fans in the world decide that we'll be sending specific pictures to each other and we also values on them, in a couple of weeks, government will try to take the reins. It's just what they do because politics.

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So why bullshit trying to associate crypto with any sort of libertarian ideals of freedom when it's merely an extended layer of the fiat system, it's perpetuating a false dichotomy and lulling people into a false rebellion that is already commoditised by the same power structures

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This Chelsea guy🤣🤣

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Loool abi now, join the winning team you stand nothing to lose. Hahaha

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🤣🤣
I'm happy with my team biko.

All these finance posts dey always scatter my brain. Nah why I say make I just hail you and pass😂😂😂

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Crypto is the people's money.

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Crypto is the people's money the day the fiat currency system ends. As long as fiat currency exists, governments will control the on-ramps and off-ramps to cryptocurrency. The best we can do these days is to minimize our crypto footprint at these critical locations. Stablecoins are great for this.

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You got this right bro. Government or generally, the powers that be, will always create these imaginary limitations to ensure that the populace remains dependent.

In reality, if people decide to create their own value system, as we've done with crypto, government becomes irrelevant because this could breed the notion that perhaps we are independent beings living on the planet.

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Crypto knows no race, no color, or enablements and this is why it'll play a crucial role in breaking the facade of safety established by most government bodies.

I was telling a friend that the kind of money and opportunities crypto present to people if was to be in real life it won’t be there. Crypto is already playing a major role to give life balance

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To this day, my country is still holding us back in several ways. For starters crypto is banned! They have no idea how this tech works so they are afraid. Needless to say they are harassing those who are related to crypto one way or another.
But one day the adoption will take place and we shall se some good news awaiting for us. Atleast to those countries who are yet to accept crypto positively.

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Screw the governments. In the post WEB3 world, they have started losing their power.

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