THELOGICALINDIAN - As best bodies knowby now the Bitcoincom appointment will be hosting an AMA alternation with some of the best arresting associates of the Bitcoin ecosystem Over the advance of about three weeks these Bitcoin industry leaders will acknowledgment any and all questions and every day is a new befalling to accomplish your articulation heard This would be the capital abstraction at aftermost were it not for assorted accessible association platforms attempting to accomplish censorship yet afresh
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The purpose of an AMA — abbreviate for “Ask Me Anything” — is to draw in as ample a army as possible. Giving this accident the absolute acknowledgment it deserves is important, but there are consistently some bodies who will aboveboard argue any idea. Various Bitcoin association associates feel this AMA should be hosted on the /r/Bitcoin subreddit, yet there are affluence of affidavit not to do so.
For the accomplished few years, /r/Bitcoin has been the go-to abode as far as any Bitcoin-related “free accent online platform” is concerned. With over 174,000 readers — according to the latest Reddit statistics — /r/Bitcoin is the arch abode to altercate agenda currency. That actuality said, there are so abounding issues with this subreddit that it has become a bedlam banal of the community, and alike gives Bitcoin a bad acceptability due to its censorship policies.
This is not the aboriginal time the Bitcoin subreddit has made negative headlines. Most of this abrogating absorption can be attributed to Theymos, the being in allegation of the subreddit, and his aggregation of moderators who remove any capacity that do not clothing their claimed agendas.
Over the accomplished few months, we accept appear on incidents involving Theymos and his army of trolls. Even the contempo Bitcoin XT agitation led to a fair bulk of deleted posts, downvoted content, and shadowbanning of assorted users. Why would Bitcoin XT be accountable to censorship? Simply put, this angle angle calls for something that does not clothing the agendas of the bodies in allegation of /r/Bitcoin.
This censorship beating makes you admiration who has the best interests of Bitcoin and its association at heart. Is it Theymos, the one being authoritative not aloof /r/Bitcoin, but additionally BitcoinTalk and the Bitcoin Wiki? Or is it the bodies who aboveboard criticize him for attempting to accumulate all Bitcoin discussions through platforms he controls?
One accessible band-aid to this botheration would be to accomplish the Bitcoin.com forum an another abode for Bitcoin discussions, after censorship or shadowbanning. Hosting a Bitcoin-themed AMA accident is the appropriate way to accomplish that goal, but announcement this agitation on the Bitcoin subreddit is allegedly not allowed.
As anon as a link to the Bitcoin AMA accident got acquaint on /r/Bitcoin, assorted trolls and accompany of Theymos started downvoting the post. Even admitting this is the better AMA accident in the history of Bitcoin, announcement any action that does not booty abode on /r/Bitcoin will alone draw abrogating attention. Not one distinct upvote for this accident was recorded a few hours afterwards announcement the link, which aloof goes to appearance how censored this “free accent online platform” has become.
Reddit Censorship Only Strengthens Belief in Bitcoin.com
Despite this abrogating attitude appear the AMA event, the bodies complex are adamant in their behavior that this is the appropriate approach. Bitcoin is a decentralized agenda currency, which prides itself on transparency and authoritative everybody an basic allotment of the network. Censorship has no abode in this ecosystem, and it is alone a amount of time until everybody starts to apprehend what is absolutely activity on at /r/Bitcoin, Bitcointalk, and the Bitcoin wiki.
In fact, the account of Bitcoin industry experts participating in this AMA is growing a circadian basis. At columnist time, a absolute of 45 Bitcoin experts accept agreed to participate in the AMA event, and added names will hopefully be added over the abutting anniversary or so. The time has appear to appearance the apple what Bitcoin is all about, and to do so in a non-censored ambiance area chargeless accent is admired and appreciated, rather than discouraged.
Will you be sending in some questions during the better AMA accident in the history of Bitcoin? Who would you like to see added to the account of participants? Let us apperceive in the comments below!
Source: Bitcoin.com Forum
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