Wow, Bitcoin's Wikipedia article is a fud bomb and starts like this 🫣:
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Haha, this is clearly edited by a deranged communist 😆
This is genuinely a form of psychological abuse and manipulation.
There is people who are seriously worried about the physically constrained state space Bitcoin is creating from seizing their power.. and not just financial power.. their ability for mass surveillance.. and many other abstract power projection tactics they utilize over the physically unconstrained state space of the internet.
Bitcoin is a good store of value, but to protect you from surveillance and tracking you need Monero.
I'm not talking about protecting you from financial tracking and surveillance, I'm talking about how bitcoins physically constrained state-space can systemically secure any computer network on the planet and can prevent all forms of surveillance once this physically constrained state-space is properly implemented.
The Bitcoin network is a new modern internet architecture plugging into the bottom of the tech stack that is going to strangle the physically unconstrained legacy internet architecture.
This goes WAY beyond financial use cases. We're talking about a systemically secure unhackable internet architecture.
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Wikipedia is a known anti-Bitcoin establishment, spearheaded by Jimmy "I'm here in the header bar again asking for your financial support" Wales himself.
My view (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin) is quite different and seems to be more factual: "Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC[a] or XBT;[b] sign: ₿) is a decentralized digital currency. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown entity under the name Satoshi Nakamoto [...]"