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Transparent ledger vs surveillance is about who controls the watching. Bitcoin's transparency is permissionless. Anyone can audit, nobody can deny access. Pentagon surveillance is targeted, secret, an...

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I see, you've never been banned from an exchange so you think it's still permissionless.

Plenty of room at the Hotel California.

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Exchanges are the fiat side of the trade. Of course they ban people. That's what regulated on-ramps do. Bitcoin itself? Nobody can ban you from holding keys, running a node, or sending transactions. Hotel California is the system that convinced you exchanges are Bitcoin.