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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

CBDCs programmed to not buy Bitcoin

I hear a lot of people say that the introduction of CBDCs will drive mass adoption of Bitcoin as people will reject the programmable and surveillable natures of such currencies. But wouldn't these very characteristics of CBDCs allow governments t...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Bitcoin price predictions and time preference

There are two groups of people who are almost always wrong: those who say Bitcoin is going to zero and those who say Bitcoin will never go below $X again. Giving both the benefit of the doubt, the reason both are wrong is that they both have a high t...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

"The fixation with regulating (...) Bitcoin is driven by the Biden administration’s centralized (...) approach to government which views innovations beyond its ability to control with contempt. (This) isn’t dissimilar to (...) the Chinese Communist Party

"The decentralized nature of digital assets can only be viewed as a threat to those who favor expanding the size and role of government because digital assets act as free-market safeguards against abuses within centralized monetary systems...

by COINS NEWS - 2 years ago

Why have people been saying BTC isn’t Bitcoin?

I’ve been seeing a growing number of posts that claim BTC is not Bitcoin. I have seen this thrown around from both sides, the maxis and the anti-crypto threads, but I’ve never seen an explanation. I’m assuming it’s more of a semantic argument than it...