Time For The Talk! We Got Everything (Mostly) Right Headed Into 2020
As CoinDesk and others have reported, leading cryptocurrency thought leaders are the latest targeted group on YouTube — facing unexplained deletions, subscriber purges, and outright account terminations over the past week, at such a scale that even Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin sounded off against Google censorship on Twitter, concluding in a tweet that it “looks like we need alternatives to youtube.”
CoinDesk and others are reporting on a surprise mass purge of cryptocurrency content on YouTube.
Speaking of tweets, in response to an article we published about Bitcoin and Ethereum’s wild 2019 in review, one of our readers tweeted to us, “adopting the beast system is probably not a good idea.” As a person good at explaining things — so good I became a broadcast journalist for many years — countering disinfo is one of my lingering passions. And the populist fear around crypto is highly counterintuitive, especially since it is the philosopher stone many frustrated people (probably like that reader) in the truth community are actually seeking, to break free from globalist control of our finances, culture, and politics.
Regardless of whether you have faith, the portions of the Bible warning of a coming “mark of the Beast” are fairly specific, and don’t seem to match the description of cryptocurrency networks at all.
As we’ve pointed out before in the newsletter, crypto since its birth a decade ago has not required a chip, ID card, eye scan, or biometric data of any kind in order to move, secure, or spend funds. That’s a large part of the reason why the traditionalist media scare mongers against it, despite CNN acknowledging Bitcoin was the best investment of the last decade — it is cash somewhat outside the system, and cannot be turned off, and cannot be turned into a privilege for some and not others. If you have Internet access, much like email and webpages, you can access your crypto.
This worries those who would control us, and our lives.
Contrast this user experience with the modern American and European banking systems, which require the presence of a literal chip — an EMV chip embedded on newer debit and credit cards — in order for funds to be debited from someone’s account. Try to withdraw a larger amount from your bank branch or establish a new line of credit, and a government issued ID, your social security number (in the USA), and in some cases even a fingerprint will be required.
It is clear which system encourages individual freedom, and which system is slowly closing the gates around us.
In the wake of many in the crypto community suddenly criticizing Ethereum, in a manner some have suggested is inauthentic “sockpuppetry,” Ethereum’s creator on his personal blog published a thoughtful piece explaining why he doesn’t think a generation 1.0 blockchain like Bitcoin’s can do it all, and why he therefore doesn’t find Ethereum’s development to be redundant in the space.
Similarly, the attack on Ethereum — one of our favorite projects in the crypto space — caused me to produce spontaneously from the depth of my soul a day-after-Christmas extended livestream that can only be described as a first draft of ‘The Talk’ — the mythical brief I will one day give to TED or another forum, explaining just how our world went so far astray, and how we can pull back the controls.
And not to get far off track here, but the shocking news coming out of Europe about elite “baby selling networks” (yes, really) shows that FULCRUM wasn’t off base about PizzaGate either — we were just two or three years ahead of the curve, and our coverage will be appreciated as such.
Some suggested I was banned from YouTube because that information was inaccurate — but it’s not inaccurate at all — and with this past week’s mass banning of crypto content, we see that YouTube bans anything that is a threat to the most mundane, entrenched establishment interests.
Perhaps not ironically, The Talk you’ll watch below is hosted on DLIVE, an advanced blockchain-based alternative to YouTube that produces crystal clear livestreams, has a great commenting system, and a monetization scheme that keeps advertising off the platform entirely.
YouTube is toast, sooner or later.
And the blockchain apps like DLIVE will be the ones to take over, which is the eventuality YouTube/Google is perhaps trying to delay by censoring such content at such a late stage in the “game.”
Watch yesterday’s livestream: DLIVE | Periscope
Or listen on Apple Podcasts or Pandora Radio - 12/26/2019 Episode.