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Censorship In Crypto - People Think We Are Scammers! - Roger Ver

London Real

Brian Rose

Investing, Business, Technology

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

Yeah, but it's something we saw last year with pandemic, we saw it with politics, but I'd

0:05.5

say Roger, a lot of people don't see it as clearly with crypto.

0:10.0

First of all, have you seen a lot of things behind the scenes and how do we try to keep

0:14.6

an eye on this going forward?

0:16.5

How do we try to get real information to the people?

0:22.0

So the censorship in cryptocurrencies from my own first hand direct knowledge started

0:27.1

as early as 2011, right?

0:30.2

So this is really, really, so in 2011 of June, for the first time in my experience with

0:35.8

Bitcoin, there was the first big price run up and the price over the course of a couple

0:39.3

of weeks went from around $2 or $3 to $30 in June of 2011.

0:44.4

And the main place where everybody was discussing Bitcoin at that time was a forum called Bitcoin

0:48.8

Talk.org.

0:50.1

And on that forum, everybody kind of knew everybody.

0:52.3

It wasn't a giant community at that point, right?

0:54.4

The price was, you know, single digits when this took place.

0:59.7

And all of a sudden, what happened when the entire world and the mainstream media started

1:02.8

reporting on Bitcoin, how it hit $30 for the first time, there was a flood of these like

1:07.5

fake accounts on the forum that were just posting nonsense, blah, blah, sell, oh no,

1:12.4

and just made the forum completely unusable.

1:15.8

They effectively shut down the discussion place for Bitcoin at the time when Bitcoin needed

1:20.4

to have these discussions the most.

1:21.9

And the most new people were coming to Bitcoin to learn about it.

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