btc for Palestine is the perfect example of a bitcoin-driven effort that goes right to the heart of what bitcoin is supposed to be about. Money working without reliable intermediaries. The goal of bitcoin was to give people a way to transact with their money that no one could interrupt, get in the way, or seek rent.
That is exactly the situation Gazans have found themselves in over the past year. Completely isolated from the rest of the world, unable to make any form of non-cash payment without depending on exactly those rent-seekers who have inserted themselves in the middle of every digital payment being processed globally. The difference between them and the average Westerner is that they depend on aid to simply survive and meet their basic needs. They are not simply upset or complaining about inconvenient service or annoying fees.
These people are being slaughtered as if they were game animals locked in a pen, it is literally a systematic genocide. They have been completely cut off from traditional payment avenues for accepting donations of food, water and other necessities. Even aid provided by the UN is being confiscated and interrupted. bitcoin is literally the only option for people who want to donate money to help the people of Gaza who have nothing.
This is one of the biggest demonstrations of why bitcoin is a necessity in the world since Wikileaks started accepting it 13 years ago in 2011 in response to the banking and payment processing brigade against them.
Back then it was a direct fight for the ability to use information to hold the government accountable for its actions and deceptions. Now it is about helping the people who directly suffer from the actions of those governments that continue to avoid accountability.
Yusef Mahmoud, a taxi driver before the genocide began, has been able to help buy food and water for thousands of people left destitute in Gaza and without anything over the last year due to bitcoin. One man, with the means to accept financial assistance from around the world that no one can interrupt or stop, has been able to make a huge difference in the lives of thousands of people.
That's what bitcoin is for, functioning as a tool that allows us to cope with what governments and institutions impose on us without its ability to stop the operation of that tool. It is not simply a new asset class, or a toy for Wall Street, it is a basis for revolutionary self-organization to solve problems that governments cannot or actively create themselves.
It's for us, not for them.
you can donate here to help the people of Gaza.
