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> Bitcoin ideology Yes, a subset of the Bitcoin community is a mixture of crazy and money driven; that happens a lot in all sorts of communities. But you've c
by petertodd 10y ago
> Bitcoin ideology
Yes, a subset of the Bitcoin community is a mixture of crazy and money driven; that happens a lot in all sorts of communities.
But you've completely missed the reason I and most other developers I know work on Bitcoin: it's censorship resistant money. For me personally, I first got interested in digital currency years ago when I started getting interested in the decentralized censorship-resistance publishing network Freenet; adding censorship-resistant money to censorship-resistant publishing was an obvious extension.
Is that always pretty? No. But neither is freedom of speech protecting technology - witness how Tor is used for lots of unsavory things too.
- davidgerard 10y ago>a subset of the Bitcoin community is a mixture of crazy and money driven The lunatic economic theories were literally a part of Bitcoin from day one. David Golumbia's book is highly recommended here (I cribbed from it heavily), even if he is a huge commie. I must admit the censorship-resistant money aspect is a positive for me too. Wikileaks having its funding cut off at the whim of three companies threw that into stark relief. I'll also note that the actual Bitcoin devs are generally way saner than the ideologues ...