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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
celebreze32
on 07/11/2015, 10:48:21 UTC


That is a sensible view, and close to what bitcoin was conceived and built for. 

However, Satoshi's stated goal was to remove the need for a trusted third party in peer-to-peer payments.  That is not the same as "censorship resistant" and does not imply it.  It does not imply anonymity or privacy, much less immunity from laws.  These goals that were tacked onto it afterwards, by others; it is not surprising that bitcoin fails to



Satoshi made Bitcoin the opposite of "censorship resistant" if used with default settings. Anyone can track where your coins have come from, and where you sent them to through the blockchain. However Satoshi provided instructions on how to run a wallet through Tor, and how to mix them through coinjoin if you desire anonymity. He left the choice of whether to implement anonymity or not to the user.