Coinbase CEO Objects Reddit Bitcoin Censorship, Decides to Censor Moderators
Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, recently hosted a firechat with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, to discuss the seriousness of the censorship in /r/Bitcoin, a subreddit moderated and curated by Bitcointalk administrator Theymos. The long-lasting feud between Armstrong and Theymos began on June 6, 2015, when Theymos threatened to ban Coinbase and any Coinbase related content from /r/Bitcoin, for promoting a project called Bitcoin XT, a hard fork designed to increase the Bitcoin block size. Theymos says: “If Coinbase promotes XT to customers on coinbase.com and/or switches all of its full....
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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....
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....
The r/Bitcoin subreddit has increasingly become a major source of news and information for anyone interested in Bitcoin. Established in 2010 and counting more than 170,000 subscribed accounts today, it is the oldest and biggest Bitcoin-related page on Reddit, and perhaps even the most influential Bitcoin corner on the Internet. But since last summer, r/Bitcoin has been under increased scrutiny. In a controversial move, the subreddit’s moderators banned the promotion of software clients programmed to break with consensus. While many considered this a form of censorship, the moderators....
In the past year, the Bitcoin space has been caught up in the heated block size discussion. Throughout the debate, there have been lines drawn by two significant camps and many just watching from the sidelines. The conversation has enraged some so much that censorship has been introduced into some platforms — most notably r/bitcoin and Bitcointalk.org.....
Politics should have no place in the Bitcoin ecosystem, yet things like these rear their ugly head every now and then. A new censorship debate is taking place on the Bitcoin GitHub page, and hardly anyone will be surprised Cobra-Bitcoin is involved in the mix once again. This latest issue revolves around whether or not Coinbase should be removed from the Bitcoin.org website. Apparently, their leadership keeps making ‘bad decisions” and they “try to undermine Bitcoin in some way”. It is not surprising to see more censorship coming out of the /r/Bitcoin camp by any means these days. Over the....