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fromBitcoin Magazine
4 days ago

Why "Ecash Coffee Day" Is No Longer Just A Celebration But A Call To Action

Four years ago, in a building in the former industrial heart of Prague, Eric Sirion sat at his computer with freshly written code and a simple mission: buy a cup of coffee with Bitcoin. The place was Paralelní Polis, during the annual Hackers Congress - a fitting venue for an experiment in digital freedom. This was not the first time Bitcoin had been used to buy coffee, but this time was different.
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fromBitcoin Magazine
2 weeks ago
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Bitcoin Privacy: What It Means To Keep Your Bitcoin Transactions Private

Privacy is essential for Bitcoin's censorship resistance; without privacy, participants face social, legal, and economic pressures and will self-censor.
fromBitcoin Magazine
3 weeks ago
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Why Micropayments? The Internet Was Meant To Provide Value To Users, Not Spy On Them

Privacy is essential for censorship resistance; loss of privacy enables external coercion and drives widespread self-censorship.
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