Roger Ver Speaks Out Against r/Bitcoin Censorship
Censorship in the Bitcoin community has been highly damaging towards efforts to bridge the gap between the various parties of Bitcoin’s block size debate. Roger Ver recently published a post asking users what they find more upsetting: the scalability roadblock or censorship on r/Bitcoin, after which he called for users to use other forums to express....
Related News
Roger Ver takes on Theymos and Greg Maxwell about censorship on Bitcoin Subreddit. There has been a lot of friction between the Bitcoin community members since the block size debate. The Bitcoin scalability issue has polarized the community into those who support the increase in block size, and those who don’t. Things between these two camps often leads to ugly debates on social media platforms. The Bitcoin subreddit on renowned Reddit social platform continues to be one of the important platforms to host these debates. Created as a discussion forum for all the bitcoin users, the subreddit....
Censorship and disillusionment were two major topics of conversation when Roger Ver and Erik Voorhees met to discuss the future of Bitcoin live this week. Voorhees: Censorship ‘Ridiculous’. The two industry pioneers, who first met in fall 2011 when bitcoin was worth $8, were speaking on a special edition of the Liberty Entrepreneurs Podcast devoted to....
Roger Ver, a self-described bitcoin evangelist who renounced his U.S. citizenship and lives in Japan, was recently banned from Reddit for referring to the bitcoin administrator Theymos by his real name, but soon had his account restored. His actions, and those of Reddit, have raised questions in the bitcoin community about how censorship decisions are made in community forums. Comments on Reddit indicated the banned post was up for 12 hours. Much of the Reddit discussion became mired in the debate between the two bitcoin subreddits, r/btc r/bitcoin, a conflict with roots in the bitcoin....
Over the past few months, Reddit bitcoin moderators including Theymos, who controls major bitcoin forums and discussion panels such as Bitcointalk.org and Bitcoin.org have censored any discussion of bitcoin XT, proposals of bigger blocks and the censorship itself. Yesterday, Roger Ver and the Bitcoin.com team hosted the largest bitcoin AMA, with the participation of prominent bitcoin entrepreneurs, startups and developers including Gavin Andresen, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, Xapo CEO Wences Casares, Overstock CEO Patric Bryne and bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn, which will continue until....
Roger Ver has a big problem with the “suppression of ideas” on public forums such as /r/Bitcoin. Now, the renowned Bitcoin investor and owner of Bitcoin.com has launched forum.bitcoin.com, promising a new kind of platform where anyone can express and discuss opinions on cryptocurrency without censorship. CoinTelegraph spoke with Ver about the new forum, his plans for Bitcoin.com, his dispute with OKcoin, and what he thinks of major banks hopping on the blockchain bandwagon. CoinTelegraph: As the owner of Bitcoin.com, why did you launch forum.bitcoin.com? “It seemed like the perfect time to....