I love this language from Beautyon. By this standard way if communicating what Bitcoin is, which is a database, it can’t be stopped by the American courts! Let’s hurry and mass adopt Bitcoin so we can have our free speech back!!
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I love this language from Beautyon. By this standard way if communicating what Bitcoin is, which is a database, it can’t be stopped by the American courts! Let’s hurry and mass adopt Bitcoin so we can have our free speech back!!
Because I'm definitively very strongly against that. Bitcoin is money. All other use cases of decentralization have already been solved by Tor and torrents.
What Im essentially saying is that the blockchain for bitcoin operates in the same way an encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp does. It’s an encrypted set of numbers/letters (cryptography) we send and receive. I understand you have the ability to utilize messaging through sending bitcoin but I guess im saying that if we say that bitcoin is money, then governments who are socialists, communists etc have the ability to shut down bitcoin operations in their respective countries.
I get where you're getting at. You're basically talking about this case: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech but applied to bitcoin.
Here's some context where this has been talked about before:
https://law.stanford.edu/press/is-bitcoin-protected-as-speech-under-the-1st-amendment-experts-answer/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/is-bitcoin-protected-as-speech-under-the-1st-amendment-experts-answer
There's the other aspect which is simply that money is speech: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
But I also like this thread from punk 6529 (even though the poor soul got tricked by the scam that is Ethereum) https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1494444624630403083
psst This is the kind of stuff you gotta post when you write a post like this. Brain stimulating stuff that supports what you're trying to say and makes the reader "hmmm"
Here’s a link for a great interview with “beautyon” to have a good listen to a better explanation https://fountain.fm/episode/8964772905
It is money properties which allowed Bitcoin to become sufficiently decentralized and survive to 2022 when Beautyon called it free speech.
I understand why he wants to use this language but I don't accept it. There are central bankers around who use paper not for free speech but for printing "money" on it.
Bitcoin is money. Bitcoin is not a shitcoin decentralized computer. Bitcoin is not an investment.