比特币的赋权时代

在今年的奥斯陆自由论坛上，gigabrain Lyn Alden 提出比特币现在的流动性足以用于人权领域

Gigabrain Lyn Alden made the case at this year's Oslo Freedom Forum that bitcoin is now liquid enough to serve a human rights function, an argument that I found compelling and with which I agree.

Gigabrain Lyn Alden 在今年的奥斯陆自由论坛上提出，比特币现在的流动性足以发挥人权功能，我认为这一论点令人信服，我也同意。

Bitcoin, which now has a market cap of over $1.2 trillion, is less volatile than it was a decade ago and can now more readily be used to help empower those who’ve historically been financially disenfranchised. (The larger an asset's market cap, the less volatile the price of the asset tends to become. When bitcoin had a much lower market cap in its early days, it wasn’t uncommon to see it lose over 80% of its value in crashes. For this reason, it would have been much harder to use it in a human rights context back then.)

比特币目前的市值已超过 1.2 万亿美元，与十年前相比，其波动性较小，现在可以更容易地用于帮助那些历史上被剥夺经济权利的人。 （资产的市值越大，资产价格的波动性就越小。当比特币早期的市值低得多时，在崩盘中损失超过 80% 价值的情况并不罕见因此，当时在人权背景下使用它会困难得多。）

Here are some examples of how Bitcoin is currently being used for human rights purposes:

以下是比特币目前如何用于人权目的的一些示例：

The work that these people, programs and institutions and the many others like them have done during the previous Bitcoin epoch has set the stage for the Empowerment Epoch — Bitcoin’s fifth epoch, the one in which it will become synonymous with the term “human rights.”

这些人、项目和机构以及许多其他类似的人在上一个比特币时代所做的工作为赋权时代奠定了基础——比特币的第五个时代，在这个时代，比特币将成为“人权”一词的代名词。 ”

That said, this will not come without challenges.

也就是说，这不会没有挑战。

High fees on the Bitcoin base chain will price certain users out of self-custody, pushing them to use Layer 2 solutions like Lightning and extensions of Lightning like ecash, non-traceable versions of sats that can be sent at almost no cost.

比特币基础链上的高额费用将使某些用户失去自我托管权，迫使他们使用第 2 层解决方案，如闪电网络和闪电网络的扩展，如 ecash、不可追踪的 sat 版本，几乎可以免费发送。

Companies like Fedi have developed a super app for the Global South that gives users access to Lightning, ecash and other freedom tech, while Machankura enables residents of various African countries to transact with bitcoin in a custodial manner using feature phones (non-smart phones). (Machankura is also working on turning feature phones into Bitcoin hardware wallets.)

Fedi 等公司为南半球国家开发了一款超级应用程序，让用户可以访问闪电网络、电子现金和其他自由技术，而 Machankura 则使非洲各国的居民能够使用功能手机（非智能手机）以托管方式进行比特币交易。 （Machankura 还致力于将功能手机转变为比特币硬件钱包。）

Layer 2 solutions will not be perfect and there will be tradeoffs with each of them. But even considering the imperfections of the technologies that make bitcoin more usable, they still provide many around the world with access to a parallel financial system, serving as a hedge to the existing monetary and financial systems.

第 2 层解决方案不会是完美的，并且每个解决方案都需要权衡。但即使考虑到使比特币更实用的技术存在缺陷，它们仍然为世界各地的许多人提供了进入平行金融体系的机会，作为对现有货币和金融体系的对冲。

As new challenges arise, I have little doubt that organizations like the Human Rights Foundation will continue to bring activists and educators together with developers and entrepreneurs to meet these challenges and to help bring bitcoin — the people’s money — to those who need it most in this, the Empowerment Epoch.

随着新挑战的出现，我毫不怀疑像人权基金会这样的组织将继续将活动人士和教育工作者与开发商和企业家聚集在一起，应对这些挑战，并帮助将比特币——人民的钱——带给那些最需要它的人。 ，赋权时代。

This article is a Take. Opinions expressed are entirely the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.

这篇文章是一个Take。所表达的观点完全是作者的观点，并不一定反映 BTC Inc 或比特币杂志的观点。