Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on Today at 01:14:25 AM

Quote from: dragonvslinux on May 06, 2023, 08:44:33 PM

You mean like censor transactions? That sounds like a centralised solution to me.

i think it's fair to expect only financial banking transactions to be on the bitcoin blockchain. censorship or not. if you don't have censorship to some degree then guess what you have? anarchy.

Bitcoin's network is collaborative in nature. Individually, no one has any control over anything aside from what's theirs. You decide what you do with your funds and how you choose to transact, but you aren't able to interfere in how others do the same with their funds. That's what makes it so powerful. Many people have views on what Bitcoin "ought to be", but no one can dispute that primary tenet.

Have a look at this post I made back in 2017, at a time when loads of people were screaming about a perceived crisis, but it was just a short-term drama and there was actually no real issue (much like how I see things with the current situation). Everything worked out fine. Those who didn't like the path we were on left and did their own thing. Some then later came back when they realised their new path was dumb and we had it right all along. Bitcoin carried on regardless.

Short version, unless a majority of those securing the chain come together and decide to change things, status quo remains. Path of least resistance, etc.