Oddbean

Only thing I’m not so sure about is if you can call bitcoin “radically free” yet. If banks are controlling peoples ability to purchase on an exchange, exchanges are requiring identification for purchases it doesn’t feel free. Most people don’t know how to purchase bitcoin p2p, actually most don’t even know there are platforms available to do this. There’s a long way to go and it seems like it will get worse before it will get better.

I hear that. I would offer that Bitcoin *is* free, in that one *can* use it freely and (more to my initial intention) the *price of Bitcoin* is a free market. There will always be authoritarianism, censorship, and overly controlling centralized entities. In one sense, banks today don’t even have a choice but to control and KYC everything, or they risk legal issues. Much of that will always be true; Bitcoin will continue to exist. And in existing, it is free, and we are free (knowingly or not) to adopt it. Thanks for getting me to think harder about this 🙏✌️