‘Free Speech Money’ – Why Bitcoin is Ideal for Gab’s New Dissenter Platform
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‘Free Speech Money’ – Why Bitcoin is Ideal for Gab’s New Dissenter Platform

THELOGICALINDIAN - A new Reddit adversary alleged Gab Dissenter from Bitcoinfriendly amusing media arrangement Gabai about akin the circadian alive users on its aboriginal day of operations than all Ethereum DApps combined

Gab Dissenter Lets You Comment on Any Website

Dissenter.com, which launched February 26, allows users to leave comments on any internet URL. Unlike Reddit, it has a decentralized structure.

Participants adhesive any accustomed URL into a abstracted field, principally a browser extension, blazon their animadversion and bang on a ‘Dissent this’ button which syncs their argument with the page’s URL.

“There’s nothing… developers can do,” Gab CEO Andrew Torba explained in a video introduction to the belvedere beforehand this week.

The browser addendum additionally contains voting accessories for both comments and URLs in a address agnate to Reddit up and downvoting.

The action appears to accept anon addled a ambit with the internet community. Google Trends data suggests this was direct afterward the absolution of the introduction, while Gab itself recorded a absolute of about 7,000 users for barrage day.

That cardinal puts Dissent abutting to the accepted circadian alive DApp user account for Ethereum, according to dappradar.com.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, users anon took advantage of the platform’s appearance to assail one URL aural the cryptocurrency industry which has accurate decidedly controversial.

“Bitcoin.com is operated by bodies aggravating to deceive the accessible into assertive that their bargain knockoff archetype of Bitcoin is the absolute Bitcoin,” one reads, alveolate affect bidding by others.

Bitcoin Micropayments Next?

Coming at a time back cryptocurrency angled has hit Twitter, Dissent would added arise an ideal applicant from micropayments via the rapidly-expanding Bitcoin Lightning Network.

As Bitcoinist reported, Gab has already amorphous above advancement of Bitcoin, admiral in December advertence they acquainted a “necessity” to advance it as “free accent money.”

That acceptance came months afterwards US barter Coinbase had shut bottomward Gab’s annual in a move which generated cries of censorship. Correspondingly, should crypto payments hit Dissent, these would acceptable abstain any centralized third party, and instead favor the decentralized Lightning Network.

Earlier this month, Tippin.me, the addendum for Lightning tips, became accessible for Twitter users, about the aforementioned time the amusing network’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it was a amount of “when,” not “if” apropos Bitcoin affiliation in his acquittal aggregation Square.

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