[2017-08-20] MMA Championships Use Bitcoin To Circumvent Censorship

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Bitcoin proponents often talk about the many benefits the decentralized currency can offer the world, and one of these attributes is bitcoin’s censorship resistance. This week news.Bitcoin.com chatted with, Firas Zahabi, a well known Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) grappling trainer from Canada who decided to use bitcoin as an incentive to promote online grappling events.

Firas Zahabi has trained many champion MMA fighters and is the founder of Tristar Gym, a grappling martial arts training center located in Quebec, Canada. The gym is well known as one of the world’s top MMA training camps, and grappling fights are very popular in the region. However, Zahabi tells us over a phone conversation that the local governments in Canada have deemed holding MMA events illegal. Grappling martial arts itself is legal in the region, but MMA events are not allowed, which gives young Canadian fighters less of an opportunity to compete and show their skills. So Zahabi decided to create online MMA events on Youtube which he calls the Pure Victory Championship and fighters compete for bitcoin prizes. Zahabi believes the act of hosting events online decentralizes the playing field and bitcoin leaves the middle man out of the equation.

Full Interview >>> https://news.bitcoin.com/mma-championships-use-bitcoin-to-circumvent-censorship/

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It's not exactly something ground breaking, but I like how Bitcoin's decentralized nature allows whatever entity to bypass the governmental suppression. The more governments are pushing people and businesses away from them, the more they will be looking for ways to avoid dealing with governments or banks. This suppression has been going on for decades, and now with Bitcoin, or basically any crypto, the government and the banks aren't the central point of everything anymore - it's called freedom. Best thing of all is that the non Bitcoin entities start to realize that as well, and for that reason slowly shift to Bitcoin.