Russia faces SWIFT sanctions, Bitcoin surges by $6,000

It has been almost a week since the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out. After much effort, the two sides are finally going to hold peace talks in Riaskovichi, Gomel Oblast, Belarus. In the external public opinion battlefield, by concocting vulgar topics and accurately detonating them in the country, and then widely reporting them through foreign media, the rabbits who were eating melons and watching the show were slapped hard. Yes, this sentence has no subject. Because you were slapped so hard, but you don’t know where the enemy is or what he is called. This is the horror of modern three-dimensional warfare.

Why was the rabbit slapped? Wasn't it because it didn't follow the will of the bald eagle and condemn and sanction the big bear? Not only did it not condemn or sanction, many rabbits were watching the show happily, and even said that the bald eagle was bombing the people of XXX at the same time, questioning why the Western media deliberately led the rhythm. The bald eagle's bombing is to maintain peace, how can it be compared with the "aggression" and "war" of the big bear?

You say XXX is a human being, XXX is not a human being, and XXX is even less a human being. So if the former is beaten, I will be humanitarian, the middle one is a bad guy and I hate them to death, and the last one deserves to die. The Constitution of Country X says it well, "All men are created equal." But who is considered a "human being" and who is not a "human being" is decided by the bald eagle.

All people are born equal, but I can label them. XXX people, label: good people. XXX people, label: bad people. XXX people, label: not human. I have never seen them, how did they get these labels? Isn't it the bald eagle that puts them? How does the bald eagle put them? Think about the public opinion war at the beginning. You don't even know who is the person who controls your mind, manipulates your brain, and affects your cognition. Do you think this is powerful and scary?

Believe in God and you will have eternal life. God is responsible for instructions, I am responsible for believing, unconditionally. Believe in the bald eagle and you will have love and peace. The bald eagle is responsible for labeling, I am responsible for unconditional belief, blind faith and blind obedience.

So, humans are superior to other animals. Humans are the only animals in the world that can organize large-scale killing of their own kind. How can they bear to do that? The way to do that is to label them.

Those who are labeled as "not human" should be sent to hell. If they are not human, what humanitarianism can we talk about? The more bombing, the more love and peace.

If they are labeled as "bad guys", then they will be condemned and sanctioned together. Why do we only dare to drown bad guys with spit? Because they are strong bad guys. If they were weak, they would have been labeled as "not human" long ago. For the few who are unwilling to join the sanction group, such as Rabbit who tries to stay out of it, they will be kicked from time to time to make you not to join the crowd.

As for the label "good guy", he is definitely an angel of love, a messenger of peace, or at the very least a lovable victim. Good guys naturally do everything right. War is just. Killing is peaceful. Sanctions are for the sake of love. Selling arms in large quantities is full of humanitarianism.

In this ideological battlefield, the reaction of many crypto people is also surprising, and they have completely abandoned the spirit of Bitcoin's permissionless, anti-censorship, and super-sovereignty. Of course, most projects are anti-Bitcoin knockoffs, and it is not surprising that they have abandoned the spirit of Bitcoin. As soon as the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out, some crypto asset platform of the second bear threatened to freeze and confiscate the account assets of everyone in the big bear family, including civilians. A group of crypto people were there applauding shamelessly.

A user named Panos on Twitter said it well: This is disgusting. It's money stolen from innocent people/users that have nothing to do with the war. Another reminder of why owning your keys, being your own bank, and decentralization are important. This is against the whole idea of ​​crypto and web3. (This is disgusting. This is money stolen from innocent people/users and has nothing to do with the war. Another reminder of why owning your keys, being your own bank, and decentralization are important. This goes against the whole idea of ​​encryption and web3.) - But there is no need to follow this person, because he is also an advocate of altcoins and claims that Bitcoin is outdated. But we don't judge people by their words. He said it well, and we agree with it.

There are also many large-scale crypto trading platforms that claim to be global and borderless, but they claim to be politically neutral, and then they launch humanitarian aid for good people and impose sanctions on bad people. Isn't this just looking for an opportunity to make a deal?

What is true humanitarianism? What is true supranational and suprapolitical help? In my opinion, it is as noble as a doctor. In the eyes of a doctor, there are only wounded and sick people, regardless of whether they are good or bad, XXX or XXX, as long as they need medical treatment, the doctor will save them.

The greatest evil in this world is not to be a bad person, but to mindlessly support good people and do so-called good things in the name of good people.

Game theory research shows that bad guys don’t cause much damage just because they are labeled as bad guys. On the contrary, those who are labeled as good guys often lead human society into an abyss of endless darkness - because we are confused by their appearance and cannot distinguish them from ordinary people, so we lack vigilance against the things they do that harm all of humanity, and ultimately the quantitative change leads to a qualitative change, which is irreversible.

Freedom, freedom, how many crimes in the world, ancient and modern, have been committed in your name! -- Madame Roland

The EU finally couldn't hold back and began to impose SWIFT sanctions on Russia - in simple terms, it means kicking Russian banks out of the international interbank transfer network. Among all the international sanctions against Russia, cutting off SWIFT is a financial sanction, and banning oil and gas is an energy sanction. It is expected that both will cause heavy damage to Russia's finance and economy. However, the sanction is implemented by the EU, but the beneficiary is the United States. A small part of the EU's oil and gas depends on Russia. If the payment is cut off or the gas pipeline is cut off, then it may have to turn to the United States to buy high-priced oil and gas.

Therefore, the EU has been slow to make up its mind. If you can't make up your mind, Country X will help you make up your mind. The way to help is naturally to let Russia and Ukraine fight more fiercely, add fuel to the fire, and add more fuel to the fire.

What right does the entire European Union have to say no to the United States? Not at all. Didn't they quickly come to the point of thinking and prepare to cut off the SWIFT channels of several Russian banks? Russia is in pain, and the European Union is also in pain. But Country X is happy, and that's the most important thing.

This moment is just like that moment.

At that time, it was 2010. In 2010, soon after Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, touched the ass of the government of Country X, the government of Country X began to hunt Assange around the world while blocking the website of Wikileaks. On December 4, the well-known IT magazine "Wired" (WIRED) reported that under pressure from the government of Country X, the Internet payment tool Paypal announced the freezing of the donation account of "Wikileaks". Wikileaks' operating expenses are entirely dependent on donations, and the ban of Paypal is to cut off the food supply for Assange's team. Assange began to look for new donation payment tools for Wikileaks. From the cypherpunk mailing group that he joined and was active in since the end of 1995, Assange discovered Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin.

Some people in the Bitcoin community were excited to hear that Assange planned to try to use Bitcoin as a new donation payment channel. For any new technology product, it is a blessing for almost everyone to have a well-known customer willing to take the initiative to try it out. But Satoshi Nakamoto was not happy, and he strongly opposed this bold idea. In a reply on December 5, 2010, he pleaded with WikiLeaks not to try to use Bitcoin, as Bitcoin is still a baby in its infancy, and the popularity brought by WikiLeaks may destroy Bitcoin.

But it was too late. Moreover, Bitcoin is a decentralized, open-source, censorship-resistant system that does not require permission or registration. Even the inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, could not censor and prevent WikiLeaks from using Bitcoin. On December 10, the IT magazine PCWorld reported the WikiLeaks closure and heavily introduced and promoted Bitcoin, a point-to-point payment technology that was not yet known to the public. Bitcoin was suddenly in the spotlight.

On December 11, 2010, Nakamoto left a message on the forum saying that it would be better to get such attention under any other circumstances, and WikiLeaks has stirred up a hornet's nest, and a large group of hornets are flying towards us. Since then, Nakamoto has disappeared from the public eye.

At that time and moment, it was just like this moment.

In 2010, the government of Country X ordered the PayPal channel of WikiLeaks to be cut off. In 2022, the government of Country X ordered the SWIFT channel of Russia to be cut off.

All history will prove that Bitcoin is the only international currency system and settlement network with truly borderless, supranational humanitarian love as noble as doctors. Bitcoin does not discriminate against anyone, regardless of your race, skin color, language, political stance, education level, it treats everyone equally and will never deny you the basic right to own and use it.

This is the most basic defense of basic human rights.

Overnight, Bitcoin retreated below 37k, then quickly rose by $6,000 and rushed all the way to 43k.

All altcoins and centralized platforms have succumbed to power without exception in the face of the test of blood and fire. Only Bitcoin has withstood the test of blood and fire.

Bitcoin has gone through this test countless times in the past decade. In the next 100 years of monetization, Bitcoin will experience even more severe tests. However, we are confident that Bitcoin will be fearless, not afraid of power, and will keep its original aspiration and move forward!