Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto to make us not to be dependent on third parties such as government and banks to control our money. Satoshi gave us the opportunity to control your coins (money) without the interference of anyone. He also made us know that bitcoin is an alternative currency to fiat. This will mean that there is no limitation with bitcoin. Bitcoin is an absolute freedom.
My point is that people should stop making others feel that they are not enjoying the freedom introduced by Satoshi by not following bitcoin principles strictly. Freedom is freedom and should mean freedom.
- If I decide to live a private life that no one knows how much I own, that is great and it is called freedom
- If I decide to do KYC on all the exchanges and gambling sites, that is freedom
- If I decide to leave my coins on exchanges, that is my choice, and it is called freedom
- If I decide to share my private key with everyone I know, that is freedom
- If I decide to use and reuse one particular address for all my transactions, that is freedom
My point is, no one should detect for anyone how to enjoy the freedom. You can only advice or teach, stop seeing people using exchanges or doing kyc as anti bitcoin.
I get your point, and you have made sound arguments regarding the role of freedom in the situation with bitcoin and the people, but as it stands today, I don't think it has come to a point where people who exercise their "freedom" as you put it have been persecuted for such, although of course the wiser ones in here would furrow their eyebrows at the sight of such behavior, especially now that situation in the cryptocurrency world is a bit awry thanks to FTX and SBF. For the most part, advise is what the people of this forum give to the people who are none the wiser with the things that involve bitcoin and cryptocurrency as a whole. So I don't think there's an anti-bitcoin statement made at least. Although again, I cannot stress this enough, the freedom that Satoshi Nakamoto introduced is just beautiful we can't emphasize how big of an impact it had made to us.