Quote from: mindrust on Today at 09:47:42 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 09:16:53 AM

Quote from: examplens on Today at 08:53:06 AM

I suggest that Bitcointalk ban all Defi platforms as soon as possible, and wordfilter their domains, why wait for a verdict and risk the forum being identified as a place where such services are desirable?

DeFi was supposed to stand for "Decentralized Finance". If they can be shut down, they're not decentralized and don't deserve to use that name.

They can’t shut the platform down however they can always catch its devs and punish them. If btc becomes a problem in the future, that’s exactly what they will do to btc. (The other possibility is that they already have the btc devs on their payroll, which is not a small possibility imo)

When you connect to the internet make commits, push code to git, promote your service etc it is damn hard to stay anonymous for a long time. maybe you can stay anonymous against average people but we are talking about the gubbermints which own all the infrastructure. If they wanted to know who you are, they will know it and that’s all they need.

You're probably talking about GitHub which is centralized and owned by Microsoft.

How did Satoshi commit code during the first years? When did they start using GitHub?

Although I suppose taking down Bitcoin from GitHub could be considered a violation of free speech... perhaps...

I remember something similar about strong cryptography not allowed to be exported from the US back in the late 90s (Gene Hoffman had wrote a story about it). He found a clever workaround:

https://hoffmang9.github.io/free-speech/the-history-code-is-free-speech.html