Censorship

Tim Berners-Lee suggests the web’s flaws requires regulation to fix. But the problem doesn't lie in design alone: The entire fiat-based monetary system exerts pressure that distorts incentives and has shaped the web’s trajectory in ways Berners-Lee may not fully appreciate.

When Evangelical Christians got Reagan elected in 1980, it didn't end well for them. Bitcoiners supporting Trump can learn from this historic partisan capture.

Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, suffers immense corruption and oppressive censorship. Freedom tech like Nostr and Bitcoin offer ways around it.

F2Pool — a mining pool representing ~11% of hash power on the Bitcoin network — is censoring OFAC-sanctioned transactions again.

Governments and institutions buying up large amounts of bitcoin is not without risk, but there is only one thing you can do about that...

Technological capability, on its own, is not enough to create Bitcoin privacy. Unless users and society actively defend and demand privacy, it will die. From "The Privacy Issue".

Economic incentives are what guarantee Bitcoin's censorship resistance, not ethical or moral honesty. This is how.

Bitcoin is built on the principles of free association, and market incentives pushing people into a consensus arising out of that free association between participants. People seem to have forgotten that.

Bitcoin Amsterdam saw much discussion on the topic of censorship and tools to route around it.

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would further corrupt fiat money, eroding purchasing power and increasing censorship.