100 sats \ 3 replies \ @scampy 11 Sep 2022 \ on: Sunday Survey: Who hurts Bitcoin adoption the most? bitcoin
Governments, so I suppose nocoiners in this poll.
Here in the UK for example we have a ban on Bitcoin-related financial products and ATMs. We have been hostile towards core devs due to bending the knee to Faketoshi. The fact that our new PM wants the UK to become a crypto hub is an absolute joke considering bitcoin.org is forbidden from distributing Bitcoin Core to UK users.
Agree with everything except this:
bitcoin.org is forbidden from distributing Bitcoin Core to UK users
AFAIK, UK visitors are able to download the software. At the time of the faketoshi court case, Cobra went a bit overboard but reverted his decision and is currently blocking just a single PDF file - the white paper.
And even when people weren't able to access the software from Bitcoin.org for a brief moment, they were able to download it from other locations like bitcoincore.org, bitcoin github, etc.
I wouldn't blame the UK government for it, more like a single person, trying to abuse the system.
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Unfortunately it is still blocked, at least for me... Attempting to download v22.0 from the website yields this message:
This software is presently not available for download in the UK, and download links will not work if you are located within the UK.
The software is accessable via other means, of course. And anyone planning to run a node is probably familiar with Github and VPNs anyway. That's what I did.
My gripe is moreso in the spirit of the thing. Censorship of benign software is immoral, no matter how easily that censorship is bypassed. Especially when done in the name of the most obvious conman in all of crypto (and that's saying something).
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Unfortunately it is still blocked, at least for me...
Beg my pardon, I thought it was already resolved.
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