Quote from: seoincorporation on January 08, 2019, 06:39:04 PM

Quote from: Stanlo on January 08, 2019, 07:21:49 AM

I wonder what would have happened to bitcoin if satoshi nakamoto was an American and come to think of it will all what we've been denied of in cryptocurrency world come to past already? I'm talking about ETF ,bakkt ,regulations ? If America was bitcoin birth home what would have happened by now? Just a thought

Bitcoin can't have a nation. Is like trying to give a nation to internet. These kinds of global technologies get adopted by countries and each country decides what rules apply to it. As you can see internet have different rules and laws in each country (North Korea only allow a local network internet), and the same applies with bitcoin, some countries will allow it, others will block it, and others will try to take advantage from it.

Which is interesting because internet was born in USA, as a military project to keep data communications going in case of nuclear warfare. But its decentralized design made possible later for everyone to join and nobody to control, at least for the most part.

What north Korea has is not internet, its a single state network, not interconnected to anything. They do have people copying content they approve from the real internet hosted on their servers, but that's about it.

Bitcoin is decentralized, and that's what makes it strong. No single point of failure ensures no entity can easily shut it down.

And speaking of other interesting US developed projects, Tor was (is?) an US Navy project. There is also NSA's Selinux, among many other things. As long as it is free open source, where everyone can audit it to ensure it doesn't do hidden stuff on your back, its welcome. Yes, even if something was truly developed in North Korea (which so far I don't know of anything interesting shared to the world, aside from a leaked redhat/centos clone) it would be useful to everyone.