What Does Censorship-Resistant Really Mean?
What happens if the current honeymoon phase ends, and The State decides to come after those interacting with Bitcoin?It’s all happening. After dropping to $3,800 in March of 2020, bitcoin is now sitting around $35,000. It seems like more legacy institutions or large investors are announcing their entrance into the space every day. Thousands of coins are moving off exchanges. Governments around the world continue to print money, and the message “deficits don’t matter” circulates alongside that newly printed cash.The bull run is underway. More people are starting to question the assumptions....
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Over the past few years, there has been an interesting debate going on regarding how Bitcoin should position itself in the regulatory landscape. While the opinions are divided as to how the solution should look like, there may be a third solution hardly anyone has ever thought of. Sometimes it’s not about picking sides, but trying to collaborate with every party involved. We are all well aware of how Bitcoin itself can not be regulated in the traditional meaning of the word. That being said, there will be laws and regulatory guidelines to adhere to, which may differ from country to....
Up to this point, there have been two main reasons people decide to use bitcoin— either for censorship-resistant payments or as a store of value. However, in 2016, a new application for the use of Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant payment system, ransomware, experienced immense growth. According to some industry watchers the core issue with ransomware....
Rand Paul thinks it would be a good idea to back Bitcoin with stocks or other assets. The idea of "backing" Bitcoin with some kind of tangible commodity or asset is back in the news again due to a recent statement from Senator Rand Paul. The Senator from Kentucky stated that he'd like to see Bitcoin backed by a basket of stocks because he believes that a currency should be "backed up by [something tangible]". While the idea of combining gold and Bitcoin has already been floated by Jim Rickards and others, it completely misses the point of what Bitcoin is supposed to be. Bitcoin is the....
Adoption by criminal enterprises is evidence of the product/market fit for censorship-resistant tech and an indicator of whether innovation will see usage in the non-criminal world.