Spam apologists trying to reintroduce the Bitcoin censorship FUD painted with jargon to confuse people. Sigh
Spam filters cannot be abused for censorship. It only takes 1 block to bypass attempts to ...
Filters can definitely lead to censorship, which then means that someone who is being censored needs to approach a friendly miner directly (and bribe them with a hefty fee to include their transaction).
Given that mining is currently highly centralised, it would mean that a shadowy world government would only need to strong arm a handful of big miners and force them to refuse business with a censored entity and thus that entity will be barred from using bitcoin.
Is this not a conceivable scenario?
Given that mining is currently highly centralised, it would mean that a shadowy world government would only need to strong arm a handful of big miners and force them to refuse business with a censored entity and thus that entity will be barred from using bitcoin.
Is this not a conceivable scenario?
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