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These debates about storing arbitrary data on bitcoin... and either how we should or shouldn't because of what bitcoin is supposed to be... the perspective of the "money purists", as I'll refer to them, seem a bit presumptive to me. I understand the argument, but I can't get on the side of it because it's rooted in a belief that bitcoin is a well-defined technology. It's not yet. I think we're still in the stages where we're discovering the use case and maybe money is the primary one. But it's unimaginative to believe this completely new and novel tool will fall into such simple categorization over the long run. We don't really know what it is yet, that's what makes it so interesting.
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One thing I've learned being at the btc++ conference is that the dividing line between camps is how much control Bitcoin Core, or anyone short of everyone, has over what bitcoin is and should be.
  • "fix the filters" because bitcoin is and should be money
  • "remove this filter that causes a bigger problem than it solves" because bitcoin is what consensus allows
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Yes, I think that's a good way to frame the debate. And I guess my pov is that it's too early to define bitcoin as a simple thing like "money". We should be more open-minded.
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thesis - antithesis - synthesis; bitcoin will continue to suck until people recognize that continuing to create controversies is an obstacle to progress; really, bitcoin is the reflection of bitcoiners' mindset... admittedly tho, it sucks less than the rest of the world;
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the money is one's mind, the mono-eye, as in the one all-seeing eye, since all the vital answers are found within; instead people really want to outsource the idea of mono-eye to something else; fiat money, for example, is obviously a religion, that worships the gods of fiat; bitcoin is great for the purpose of abstracting money to an electronic distributed network; it is much better at it than a dark occult group of people, but it's only a checkpoint on the way to true freedom;
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