ManyKeys on Nostr: #Bitcoin is: · globally permissionless; · censorship-resistant at the protocol ...
#Bitcoin is:
· globally permissionless;
· censorship-resistant at the protocol layer;
· immutable without social consensus.
These guarantees cannot be removed. But user behavior can be nudged into rails that undermine those guarantees for most people.
This is not “Bitcoin being captured.”
This is Bitcoin users being captured.
Two very different things.
Published at
2026-01-25 15:45:33 UTCEvent JSON
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