Just zapped you for a coffee. Will you be joining the adopting bitcoin Arnhem conference? You lay out the things that we need to discuss.
Cryptoeconomics by Eric Voskuil is the most challenging Bitcoin book I’ve ever read.
It challenges my naivety, comprehension, and belief.
One such challenge is it’s not Bitcoin if it’s not able to exist on the black market - where the white market is the one that is allowed to exist and the black market is the one that exists outside of control/interference/approval.
I believe this can be extended to our all having our own self defined white and black markets that exist in our little heads. This creates some very inconvenient truths like our enemies can use bitcoin to do harm to us or those we love, and we can’t stop it.
Eric points out that if it’s not censorship resistant it’s not Bitcoin, full stop. Any censorship makes it something other than Bitcoin. And I agree.
With that, while recognizing there are dimensions to this I am far from understanding, I’m not in favor of nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze censoring ordinal transactions.
Perhaps ordinal transactions lead to a future node problem. Indeed the block space could be utilized for other purposes today and prospective quality bitcoiners in need of freedom money are sadly being priced out of the market earlier than they should be.
But as for me I see these as insufficient justifications for violating a core tenant such as censorship resistance. It’s like breaking free from a fraudulent/corrupt environment only to bring your preferences and systems to corrupt the new. What is the point in getting the aspiring bitcoiner that needs Bitcoin a coin that was only gained by means of censorship? In the long run is anything changing?
There has to be other ways to solve the problems that the ocean fella is worried about without breaking the constitution of Bitcoin.
I will be watching nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze sponsored Unconfiscatable conference this weekend so maybe I’ll feel different Monday.
I don’t know the answers but I’m looking for them. If you’ve got em please share. ✌️
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thanks bert! wasnt planning on it! i looked at the site and its a great lineup, but i am not a conference goer.
who are you looking forward to thats speaking at the conference?