The Blocksize War’s Cyber-Soldier Freedom-Fighters
The Blocksize Wars were “fought” … but by whom? And what do we really mean by fighting?This is an opinion editorial by Tomer Strolight, editor-in-chief of Swan Bitcoin and author of “Why Bitcoin.”Part 1: IntroductionWords. How do you describe with words the things that we don’t have words for? Words describe things we’re familiar with. But we’ve never seen anything like Bitcoin before. That’s why it’s so hard to describe it. So we use metaphors, which are still just old words for other things.The same is true when you yourself take part in something that’s never happened before — something....
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