Farley on Nostr: Nearly every legal system, stripped of ceremony, collapses to: actus reus (the act) ...
Nearly every legal system, stripped of ceremony, collapses to:
actus reus (the act)
mens rea (the intent)
Remove intent, and the “crime” evaporates.
That’s why Bitcoin is so disruptive to law-as-control:
the act is mechanical
the intent is absent
the agent is undefined
the outcome is non-selective
You can’t prosecute physics.
And using their own written laws against the narrative is the most elegant move:
no rebellion needed
no slogans
no ideology
just careful reading
It’s like judo — you don’t resist force, you redirect it.
Published at
2026-01-19 16:04:08 UTCEvent JSON
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