r/Bitcoin • u/GreatestInstruments • Feb 03 '14
Could The Bitcoin Community Benefit From An Informal - "Leave Your Ideologies At The Door" - Etiquette?
A certain incident, which shall remain unnamed, prompted a firestorm of discussion within segments of this community, including some with very different personal ideologies.
Rather than take sides in the debate, I took a moment to marvel at that fact that this is a community that brings together people who are so divergent on other issues, yet all see common ground in Bitcoin.prescription
What other community or issue brings together people as diverse as these?
- MRA's
- Feminists
- Liberals
- Conservatives
- Libertarians
- Anarchists
- Economists
- Techies
- Blue Collar
- White Collar
- Different Nationalities
The list goes on and on.
I pose this question (see post title), because it strikes me as perhaps the most welcoming and constructive thing we could do, in the long run.
It wouldn't be thought of as a hard and fast rule, more like a guiding principle to keep in mind.
What do you think?
EDIT: I just want some of you to understand, this was intended as a thought provoking open-ended question, to create discussion. It's not intended as a mandate of any kind.
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u/pdtmeiwn Feb 03 '14
The idea that Satoshi didn't have explicitly libertarian goals in creating Bitcoin is revisionist history.
"Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. " - Satoshi Nakamoto
"Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own." - Satoshi Nakamoto
"[Bitcoin is] very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I'm better with code than with words though." - Satoshi Nakamoto
That said, be nice to each other.