Bitcoin is a decentralized and censorship resistant network built around independent participants maintaining and verifying their own copy of the database storing its historical transaction record. 

Its entire purpose for existing is to function in a manner that prevents anyone from being shut out of the system, or prevented from using it. That is its raison d’être.

People will use Bitcoin for things that it wasn’t intended for, or things that some people disapprove of, or some things that almost everyone will agree is abhorrent. These things will happen because Bitcoin works, you can’t stop people from using it. 

The entire conversation around this reality in the…

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