Bitcoin Helps People Fight Surveillance and Censorship

People in Western countries generally do not have the same problems as people in countries living under the authoritarianism of corrupt rulers.

People in Western countries have to deal with the ever-increasing willingness of their leaders to monitor their every move.

It all started with China, whose regime is authoritarian, which decided to set up true generalized state supervision with its social credit system.

A Chinese can hardly do anything without being monitored by the authorities of his country.

China’s desire to create a state-backed cryptocurrency is a clear step in the direction of strengthening the monitoring of all transactions carried out by the Chinese population.

This desire is not new, since China, for example, is pushing for the use of WeChat as an online payment system in order to better monitor the transactions carried out online by its population.

This massive surveillance allows the Chinese authorities to decide arbitrarily to freeze the assets of any of its citizens but also to block some of their transactions.

The most worrying thing is that this type of surveillance is becoming widespread in Western countries where private companies, such as the GAFA, are storing an incredible amount of data about you.

The fact that the GAFA are now moving into online payment systems, and soon financial services, should alert you as a citizen.

More and more people living in Western countries are facing censorship decisions by their banks that prohibit them from making certain transactions.

In Greece, the country’s authorities had limited bank withdrawals to 60 euros per day for the country’s citizens in 2015 when the country was hit by a major economic crisis.

This is just one example among many, but it shows why more and more people no longer believe in the current system.

You too are among those who feel that it is not your responsibility to pay the consequences of the mistakes made time and again by rulers who do not live up to their commitments.

With Bitcoin, you can carry out the transactions of your choice without any risk of censorship.

Bitcoin also protects your anonymity since only the addresses of the participants in a transaction and the amount is made public.

As long as you do not give the list of your addresses on the Bitcoin Blockchain, you remain anonymous and protected from the mass surveillance that is spreading around the world.