Ver, Voorhees Combat Bitcoin’s Reddit-culous 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....

A new controversy related to Bitcoin and censorship has broken out on Reddit over the past few days. Various /r/BTC users and moderators seem to be advising others to have /r/Bitcoin mods removed. While there has been a censorship issue on the official Bitcoin subreddit in the past, this new campaign seems rather strange. Censorship in the Bitcoin world is far more widespread than most people think. Particularly on public discussion boards, such as Reddit. Moderators are tasked to remove any irrelevant or disturbing information to keep discussions professional. However, sometimes they also....

Erik Voorhees is beaten but unfazed after being charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for selling shares in his two companies without proper registration with federal government. Yesterday, the SEC charged Voorhees over US$50,000 in penalties and reclaimed profits from the venture, which took place between 2012 and 2013. Voorhess clarified the situation on Reddit: “I have entered into a settlement agreement with the SEC. With this matter resolved, I look forward to helping to build the Bitcoin industry and the future of finance.” The charges brought against Voorhees refer....

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....

Even though the actions by user saagruddieu are not commendable, they shed an interesting spotlight on the root cause of these spam messages, which is the /r/Bitcoin censorship enforced by Theymos and other moderators. Frequent visitors of the Reddit platform may have noticed they are getting some strange private messages these days. Especially those users active on the Bitcoin subreddits are being targeted with spam bots advertising the benefits of Ethereum. Despite Reddit’s anti-spam measures, these messages are still coming through for some reason. It goes without saying this is not....