it is not uncensorable in an absolute term, that is true. But can come quite close. Why? For mainly two reasons: 1) Main one: Miners can censor. But miners ar

it is not uncensorable in an absolute term, that is true. But can come quite close. Why? For mainly two reasons: 1) Main one: Miners can censor. But miners are not elected. As more transactions are censored by a mojority of miners, the sum of transaction fees of these transactions add up and become a honeypot/incentive. A sum which a "brave" miner could additionally include in a block they would mine (that other miners censoring won't), making themselves MORE profitable by including those. And mining being a low margin business, this is relevant. And this gets more and more relevant the more fees people are ready to pay for such transactions. Nothing is really free in life. It would cost, but the more you are ready to pay a fee, the more uncensorable it gets (if you are not the only one, which is not likely in a long term view in a world with so many countries, minorities, use cases,... ). The condition for this to work, is a) being able to mine anonymously (or one day you'll get arrested) and b) a protocol favoring decentralization (meaning you can have temporarily more centralization like these days, but as long as these more centr. miners behave well and follow the rules, it isn't an issue, and when they start behaving bad, things can get better again [1]). That is why privacy + decentralization-focused bitcoin-software development is so important 2) The second reason is technically correct, but a bit far fetched I have to admit (!), but read to the end: - You can become a miner. Ok, you would need to buy an ASIC or better a few, but with that you finally might get lucky and mine your block with those transactions. - But then again communities could get together and mine together. Like a small town (somewhere hypothetically where some plant grows and producing healthy drugs that are forbidden by law but helping some people who want to pay for that) and thus getting connected to a world wide financial infrastructure to participate in world wide commerce. Or countless other communities are imaginable. It just needs imagination, human creativity and time to develop those scenarios. [1] Example where it has already happened: - Bitcoin had moments where one miner got or got near 51% POW, and miners did switch mininig-pools to stop that. - possibly segwit2x (not entirely sure). Although Segwit2x was circumvented by a user activated softfork, an agreement of a big part of miners wanted to change the rules, but couldn't pull it of edit 1: formatting edit 2: some clarifications