I believe in free speech even though it's illegal in my country. I don't see much difference between a proof of blocking reward and government paying mods to censor things they don't agree with.
One example involves the moderator of a website. The other example involves a national government. Nobody is trying to confuse the two roles except you.
Why do you insist on equating Andreas' powers over his blog to the powers of the federal government?
Someone comes up with "well meaning" technology and it ends up being used by people that want control over us, that's how it works.
That's how it works, until it fails, which it has. Now it doesn't work that way anymore. Its not up to you, Brian Kelly, anybody on Wall Street or the government now. That's the whole point of bitcoin: for the first time ever there is no central, governing authority of a money supply and it is working just fine this way.
Regulation will kill the relevance of bitcoin. And as soon as its usefulness has been destroyed by the greedy Masters of the Universe, society will just switch to an alternative format which accomplishes the same goals.
You can't stop it. The wheels are already in motion. Just be thankful you already have what you have for once.
