Wat.

Censorship resistance is only guaranteed if you can afford to incentivize a miner to mine your TX.. Bitcoin's ability to remain permissionless depends on having internet access and a device capable of running Tor or Tails.

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Its not accurate to only look at the network itself and ignore the context it exists in.

If Bitcoiners don't actually want to *disintermediate the legacy system* (ie fuck the banks),

then the legacy system will co-opt Bitcoin through regulatory capture.

As time goes on and there are more normie adjacent people in Bitcoin, the consensus of *what Bitcoin does* changes.

If that continues, it will become a nerfed speculative asset. Not necessarily because of a hostile fork situation (although possible) but simply because the "axiom of resistance" is false.

ie

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and yeah

you'll probably still be able to bribe a N Korean miner to get your transaction through in a few days.

That isn't censorship resistant.

If the user does not resist the censor, then no technology can provide him censorship resistance.

Security is always a human affair.