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The Breakdown

Does Bitcoin Institutionalization Threaten Cypherpunk Values?

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Chainalysis recently helped law enforcement take down a child porn ring by tracking btc addresses. This kicked off a huge conversation about how essential is it to the value proposition of bitcoin for it to be able to used for things that are against the rules - whether we like them or not. The firestorm of debate it kicked up really came down to one key question: how will institutionalization impact bitcoin? Can institutionally safe and friendly bitcoin co-exist with anti-establishment, rule breaking bitcoin?

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another Crypto Daily 3 at 3. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, October 17th.

0:09.0

And today we're going to be doing, instead of the normal 3 at 3, we're going to be deep diving on one particular conversation.

0:15.6

Tomorrow we will be back with kind of a more traditional news round up to end out the week.

0:20.5

But there's been a really interesting debate going on for the last, I don't know,

0:24.2

whatever, coming up on 24 hours, basically, on Bitcoin Twitter in particular,

0:29.1

but kind of crypto Twitter more broadly, about a couple things.

0:32.6

One, the nature of institutionalization and what it does to Bitcoin to the relative importance of

0:41.0

different attributes of Bitcoin, basically whether the idea of trust minimization, censorship

0:49.0

resistance is more or less important than sound money principles.

0:59.3

And it all stems from kind of this piece of news that happened yesterday.

1:01.1

So I think it's really interesting.

1:07.4

I think it's a nice moment to reflect on some fundamentals instead of just get totally caught up in the day-to-day.

1:08.6

So let's dive in.

1:12.1

So I'll kick it off with this tweet from Nick Sabo yesterday.

1:17.8

Multitudes and charlatans have entered the cryptocurrency in smart contract spaces who not only lack cypherpunk sensibilities, but hate cypherpunk values, including the values such as trust

1:22.7

minimization that give cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin their market values. So that's kind of a nice

1:29.5

setting of the tone of the of the debate. But let's go back to last night or I guess yesterday

1:35.3

when Jonathan Levin from Chainalysis posted this. He says, today is my proudest day at Chainalysis.

1:43.3

We enabled the U.S., UK, Germany,

1:45.5

and South Korea to take down one of the largest child abuse material sites. Law enforcement in 38

1:50.8

countries made 330 plus arrests of alleged pedophiles and rescued 23 children from abuse.

1:57.1

So obviously this is a, you know, a really interesting story around law enforcement taking

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