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The conflation of Bitcoin with human rights is stupid.

Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship.

p.s. it should always be noted when nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wct4lwjj starts spouting talk about human rights that he is highly selective in whose rights he wants to promote, and that these suspiciously co-align with ppl agitating for régime change in governments not controlled by the North Atlantic oligarchies

Rick Apollo 6mo ago

Alex nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t6qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqqgzccaq65ccv9k3454480sws2wqepz73q5z0m5kckslhyhh6d533jc25xncl promotes Bitcoin. If what you're saying:

"Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship."

is true, then your whole comment is a contradiction in itself, since Bitcoin cannot be hijacked for any specific purpose. Not even by the HRF. Freedom and Self-Sovereignty only.

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Callum 6mo ago

Bitcoin is code. The people who maintain and add features to the code can be interfered with. Users always have a choice not to run newer implementations of the code but that also requires users understanding Bitcoin well. Understanding has decreased since the last big challenge to the code base in 2017 with the introduction, by evangelistic 'orange pilling' of many shallow, influencer led Bitcoiners. The struggle to keep Bitcoin 'true' is an ongoing one, and also the layers built on top of it. I see nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw and the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph as highly suspect players in the world of Bitcoin developer funding.

Bitcoinerdamus 6mo ago

Bitcoin is human desire for truth. Manifest in a unique sw/ hw system that binds the physical world (energy) with the political world of humans (money) via numbers (cryptography). Once discovered now, no going back. It's too simplistic to say 'bitcoin is code'. BitcoinCore and its contributors are a convenience, not the essence.