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Topic: Vivid History: 'How Money Got Free' Is the Untold Story of Bitcoin (Read 246 times)

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Beautiful but not realistic. Bitcoin is very precisely worked out mathematical project. Do you think that clever people are only in the government? It seems to me that people have long time to understand that if they currently don't appear to care that the majority of services will be subordinated to the comfort of the rich minority.
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^^^ So far we have been blessed. Those who could destroy Bitcoin haven't been very interest... or they want Bitcoin to rule. Of course, maybe they are just waiting for Bitcoin to go to $1,000,000, so that they can make big profit before they crash Bitcoin.

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That is a good story and very inspiring. But it is too bad reality is very much different. The reality of Bitcoin is not so "free" with the threat of Segwit2x. If it is adopted, it will show that Bitcoin, with all its idealism could be controlled by the ruling oligarchy very much like the real world.

I once made a post that asked "What if the miners hired their own set of developers and follow them?". On November we will find out.

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Vivid History: 'How Money Got Free' Is the Untold Story of Bitcoin





Later going on to start several bitcoin ventures, he was also at the forefront of efforts to boost its regulatory compliance.

In this opinion piece, Waters reviews "How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance" (Oneworld Publications), arguing it captures the zeitgeist of the original cryptocurrency and the sprawling – all too human – movement that helped it reach the masses.

I have long suspected, owing to its sheer brilliance and idiosyncratic beauty, that bitcoin was in fact brought here by aliens from another planet.

Brian Patrick Eha's vivid history of bitcoin, "How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance," which captures in thrilling journalistic fashion what I experienced in my years working on this remarkable technology, only confirms my suspicions.


Read more and click the links at https://www.coindesk.com/vivid-history-money-got-free-untold-story-bitcoin/.


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