I agree that the purpose of Bitcoin was and is to be money. But the point I'm making is that that framing is only useful to a point, and can't explain all of Bitcoin's use cases. There are transaction...
You're conflating censorship with protocol constraints. Nobody is trying to censor transactions. The reason "Bitcoin is money" matters is that the telos tells you how to design and maintain an engineered thing.
A knife should be sharp because it's for cutting. Bitcoin should have protocol constraints that don't go beyond what is needed for monetary use cases because Bitcoin is money. Spam is a threat to the network because it bloats the chain that works against decentralization and creates legal, political and technical attack surface.
No one is telling you who you can pay or be paid by. That would be censorship. We are saying that Bitcoin is money, so we need to do what's best for it to be good money and keep being good money.
If you and I share a chef's knife and you want to leave a big notch in the middle of the blade so you can use it as a can opener, we will get into a disagreement about how to take care of the knife. Citrea and others want to use the knife as bottle opener. That fucks up the knife. So we have a disagreement with them. We want to fix the blade and keep the knife sharp. We're not telling anybody what to have for dinner. We are saying don't abuse the knife and screw it up.
That's what we mean when we say: Bitcoin is money.
When you hear rhetoric calling that censorship or "they want to control the network" that is the false rhetoric. We share a knife. We don't want the shared knife to get fucked up. We all need a nice sharp knife for making our dinner. We're not telling anybody what to eat. But don't screw up the knife.
Make sense?
A knife should be sharp because it's for cutting. Bitcoin should have protocol constraints that don't go beyond what is needed for monetary use cases because Bitcoin is money. Spam is a threat to the network because it bloats the chain that works against decentralization and creates legal, political and technical attack surface.
No one is telling you who you can pay or be paid by. That would be censorship. We are saying that Bitcoin is money, so we need to do what's best for it to be good money and keep being good money.
If you and I share a chef's knife and you want to leave a big notch in the middle of the blade so you can use it as a can opener, we will get into a disagreement about how to take care of the knife. Citrea and others want to use the knife as bottle opener. That fucks up the knife. So we have a disagreement with them. We want to fix the blade and keep the knife sharp. We're not telling anybody what to have for dinner. We are saying don't abuse the knife and screw it up.
That's what we mean when we say: Bitcoin is money.
When you hear rhetoric calling that censorship or "they want to control the network" that is the false rhetoric. We share a knife. We don't want the shared knife to get fucked up. We all need a nice sharp knife for making our dinner. We're not telling anybody what to eat. But don't screw up the knife.
Make sense?
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