I think white market Bitcoin is untenable.
BITCOIN REALISM: SCALING, GOVERNMENT CAPTURE, & THE LIGHTNING NETWORK | John Carvalho (THE Bitcoin Podcast)
"I think that what people need to realize is that bitcoins biggest enemy is the government… basically what we don't want is Bitcoin captured, and it CAN be captured. "
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2 I think this is all just a temporary state that any amount of kind of 3 appeal or evangelism or intentional involvement of getting Bitcoin, 4 getting government involved in Bitcoin will be regrettable.
5 I have much more dire serious view about involving government in Bitcoin 6 because while a lot of the things you said are perfectly reasonable, 7 I think that what people need to realize is that Bitcoin's biggest enemy is the government.
9 And so we want them to be as ignorant and as blunt and primitive about how they 10 deal with Bitcoin as possible.
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I think this is all just a temporary state that any amount of kind of
appeal or evangelism or intentional involvement of getting Bitcoin,
getting government involved in Bitcoin will be regrettable.
I have much more dire serious view about involving government in Bitcoin
because while a lot of the things you said are perfectly reasonable,
I think that what people need to realize is that Bitcoin's biggest enemy is the government.
And so inviting them in is giving them power.
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"I think that what people need to realize is that bitcoins biggest enemy is the government… basically what we don't want is Bitcoin captured, and it CAN be captured. "
On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym. They discuss hard truths about Bitcoin scaling, ossification, the threat of the government capture and Strategic Bitcoin Reserves, shitcoining, and more.
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