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Bitcoin’s Protection under the First Amendment, by Ross Stevens (Bitcoin Out Loud on THE Bitcoin Podcast)

"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, bitcoin is an expressive as

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2 As a system for collecting and communicating information, ranging from payment data to art, 3 Bitcoin is speech.

4 As a statement of protest against the government's monopoly over money, 5 Bitcoin is expressive conduct and as a collection of individuals that share Bitcoin's hard-coded 6 principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, Bitcoin is an expressive 7 association.

8 Bitcoin is free speech protected by the First Amendment and therefore regulating Bitcoin 9 has clear constitutional implications.

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Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment.

As a system for collecting and communicating information, ranging from payment data to art,

Bitcoin is speech.

As a statement of protest against the government's monopoly over money,

Bitcoin is expressive conduct and as a collection of individuals that share Bitcoin's hard-coded

principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, Bitcoin is an expressive

association.

Bitcoin is free speech protected by the First Amendment and therefore regulating Bitcoin

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"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, bitcoin is an expressive association.

Bitcoin is free speech protected by the First Amendment and therefore regulating bitcoin has clear constitutional implications."

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