From Minitel to MiCa.

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The revolution is coming. Proof: I’m here!

2 years ago

Topics: Cryptosphere, NFTs, Internet, MiCA

Mini wôt??

In 1980, the Minitel, a French innovation, opened a gate towards internet: it was the first kind of special computer plugged on a telephone line and able to communicate with another one. Hence named mini-tel: a small computer like device specially created to send instant message to another on throughout phone cables.
To access a user, one had to type a 4 digit kind of code plus the name, the most current one being 3615.
Very soon we saw stickers flowering on every traffic light with girl names. 3615 Ulla remains in everyone’s memory, as the first adult messaging server.

I had a friend by that time who was built as a Golgoth.
Tall.
Strong.
Incredibly kind.
Found himself in need of cash at some point, so he enrolled in the Minitel Rose, where he was hired as a fake girl… I can’t help but smile thinking about all the pervs he cooled down without them knowing they were helped by a big hetero fridge like guy!😂😂😂

Later, I discovered another interesting story behind the Minitel Rose.
His owner.
Xavier Niel.
He started his career at 17, using this new device for good old porn usage, and then built an empire in mobile communications as well as traditional communication (he bought Le Monde in 2010).

Now he’s in the top 10 of the richest men in France**…

Meanwhile, by 1989/90, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau were creating the World Wide Web***.
On the French side, the technological battle was over.

Today is a crucial day for the cryptocurrencies as a whole: a law is to be voted in European Parliament.

The MiCA: Markets in Crypto Assets. You can find the 159 pages of the final text that is going to be introduced this afternoon, (Monday 14th of March) at the end of this article. No doubt regulations must be done. But that is not what MiCA is about.

The question is not Will they try to shut us down?, we know they don’t want to loose control.
The question is Who is going to profit from the opportunity and then leave the crypto or NFT market nearly dead?

I wouldn’t bet on Salvador.
I would rather take a look on institutional whales that are heavy enough to manipulate the market. The ones who might massively ride the MiCA law to short Bitcoin (for exemple!) - a gamble we can all do now with the DeFi tools, and that they probably would prefer to keep for themselves.

No doubt that instead of helping build a more fair or more free world, once again, this old continent that is Europe shall loose itself in petty manipulations.
The talents are here: they’re just pressured to stop their development.

I’d like our governments to realize that no law can shut up that much creativity, that much opportunities and adrenaline shots.

It is time for them to move on, not for us to stop.