Freedom to Transact
We like to talk about freedom of speech and the freedom to protest, but underneath all of them is something more fundamental: the freedom to transact.
If you can’t move value, every other right becomes conditional. You can say what you want, but can you fund the website? You can travel, but can you buy the ticket? You can organize, but can you raise money for it? Shut down the payment rails, and everything else gets harder by default.
That’s what makes financial control so powerful. It’s quiet. There’s no need to outlaw speech if you can block the donations keeping it online. This is why open financial systems matter, and why the ability to transact without asking is so important.
Crypto didn’t invent the idea of permissionless value transfer. But it’s the cleanest implementation we have. And the freedom to transact is what many other freedoms are built on.
Over the the last four years or so, on different occasions I have had some of my B2B Wholesale Customers outside of the want to pay using Bitcoin, but they expressed fear everytime their Country rules would change on "allowing them" to use Bitcoin.
When will B2B merchants actually use Bitcoin for payments, here again not saying B2C retail coffee shops or bars, but B2B.