The authority hides behind the law to control bitcoin and freedom of expression
Centralized networks are under constant stalking and control by state force.
Governments kidnap executives to manipulate digital companies.
The state authority uses physical coercion to control money and narrative. In the fiat world, the authority decides how information and money are managed. And to ensure this, it uses physical force on people as a bargaining chip.
Let's look at some examples. The Nigerian government wants to charge Binance $10 billion because, according to them, the exchange is responsible for the devaluation of its fiat currency. So, due to the physical impossibility of kidnapping the owner of the exchange since he did not make the risky choice of visiting the African country, it chooses to kidnap three of its executives who did make that risky tourist visit. Logically, the Nigerian State does not call it kidnapping but preventive arrest. In this way, it seeks to control the discourse in order to sanitize the immoral act of depriving people of their freedom of movement who have never been found guilty and who, in addition, have never harmed anyone due to the lack of victims in the aforementioned crimes committed.
In this way, we can see that, as Vinay Gupta indicates, âthe State is any entity that can retroactively forgive a crime.â On the other hand, but with a similar action, when the United States government wanted money from Binance, it negotiated directly with the owner and achieved its objective more quickly. But it also leveraged its negotiation on the threat of âlegalized kidnapping,â since it led to Changpeng Zhao being sentenced to prison even though he had paid more than four billion dollars.
