Vitalik Buterin Calls Mandatory Use of BTC in El Salvador Counter to Crypto’s ‘Ideals of Freedom’ | Crypto Craft

  • Vitalik Buterin Calls Mandatory Use of BTC in El Salvador Counter to Crypto’s ‘Ideals of Freedom’

    From coindesk.com

    Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized the forced adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador in a comment he made in a Reddit forum on Friday. Writing in a forum entitled “Unpopular opinion: El Salvador President Mr Nayab Bukele should not be praised by Crypto community,” Buterin, under his Reddit user name of vbuterin, said that “there is nothing unpopular about this opinion,” noting that “making it mandatory for businesses to accept a specific cryptocurrency is contrary to the ideals of freedom that are supposed to be so important to the crypto space.” Buterin’s remarks appear to refer to Article 7 of ... (full story)

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Hasher
Oct 9, 2021 12:28pm
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Good or not the whole thing will be educational.

I guess he's also saying no to any country that wants to exclusively use ETH
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Goat
Oct 9, 2021 11:15am
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"contrary to the ideals of freedom that are supposed to be so important to the crypto space".

Nowhere in the whitepaper, and nowhere in Satoshi's early writings does it say anything about these "ideals of freedom" that Vitalik claims as crypto's foundation. It's supposed to be a currency, not a religion.
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