Bitcoin cannot be controlled by the status quo

2019 seems to be the year of civil disobedience. Citizens around the world are taking to the streets to protest against the policies of local rulers. Even here, where we have relatively good results, farmers, teachers, the construction sector and concerned climate citizens put down the work to take to the streets.

We all know the images from Hong Kong, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Venezuela. Hundreds of thousands of people have also taken to the streets in recent months in Iraq, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Serbia, Russia. And earlier in 2019 the same thing happened in Sudan, Kazakhstan, Peru, Algeria, Peru, Tunisia, Jordan, Haiti, the Czech Republic and Zimbabwe.

Are these all separate incidents? Maybe so, because every group fights for its own, local cause. But it is typical that all over the world, protests are breaking out at the same time. It is not fair to put all those protests in one box, yet you cannot ignore the timing.

Lennart Hofman of De Correspondent writes that demonstrators from all over the world use the same tactics, learn the same lessons and in some cases encourage each other. The yellow vests, for example, have come over from France. There is protest in Dutch cities for a free Hong Kong. And in Hong Kong, protesters are taking Catalan flags. In Lebanon, demonstrators are singing demonstrators in Iran.

The Lebanese supporting the Iranian protesters pic.twitter.com/wRDK22AngY
– ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 18, 2019

Nowadays, anyone with a smartphone has the opportunity to immediately share his point of view with the world and contribute to the conversation. This is a powerful tool that the world has not been introduced to for very long and needs to learn to understand. In any case, governments do not have enough control over it. A good example of this is the mobility generated by the internet during the Arab Spring.

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The ability to share information quickly and always with everyone also ensures that the injustices of politicians and governments do not go unnoticed. The time that the status quo without anyone noticing, adjusting policies and benefiting from the rest of the world is slowly coming to an end. The time when the common man has no weapon to combat this injustice is over.

In a world where the internet has become commonplace and more and more people are talking via social media, there is less and less room for hiding scandals.

In the last few weeks alone is one sex tape shared from a Bolivian president pretending to be a conservative Christian, a prince forced to respond to his ties with the dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Chileans taking down an espionage drone with lasers, and showing how China deals with demonstrators in Hong Kong .

This is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen for a while: Chilean protesters using lasers to take down a drone. pic.twitter.com/tLSgj7YSB6
– NetSec Focus (@netsecfocus) November 13, 2019

This is typical of why people take to the streets. Yes, they are all different, local reasons that give cause for protest. But citizens are increasingly frustrated with existing forms of political participation and representation. Then there are few options left than to enforce the right by protesting.

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António Guterres of the United Nations said last month that he sees similarities between the protests in all countries, from poor to rich. The agreements that he touches on include extreme financial pressure, inequality and other structural problems.

Demonstrations are an expression of frustration. This may expose you negatively, but it is nothing more than a call for a fairer policy.

The internet has ensured that people with the same interests and frustrations can find each other more easily and that behavior that was not discussed in the past is discussed. It is necessary that there are means by which ordinary citizens become less dependent on one source of information. It is also important that we continue to work on open, decentralized means that the status quo cannot continue to suppress the citizen. And bitcoin can play a major role in this.

During the protests in Lebanon, the banks closed their doors for fear of the population. Citizens are protesting and as a means of punishment they can no longer reach their money. No matter how you want to explain this, it will make it harder for the population to protest. Bitcoin can act as a safety net to make protests possible.

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