- Twitter video - from @thecryptoc0up1e -- #Bitcoin is money controlled by no one, and available to everyone. https://twitter.com/thecryptoc0up1e/status/1560424223071522817?s=20&t=dgIqj48M7Tc2EAnctGQnAw 7 comments bitcoin
- Bitcoin’s ‘One Percent’ Controls Lion’s Share of the Cryptocurrency’s Wealth https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-one-percent-controls-lions-share-of-the-cryptocurrencys-wealth-11639996204 90 comments technology
- Whales in control unless Bitcoin drops to $36k, Prosper Academy CEO says https://finbold.com/whales-in-control-unless-bitcoin-drops-to-36k-prosper-academy-ceo-says/ 6 comments cryptocurrency
- Any foundation whose funding comes from a unilateral decision by Bitcoin ABC will be controlled by ABC https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/i60zac/any_foundation_whose_funding_comes_from_a/ 146 comments btc
- Reminder from the Bitcoin Whitepaper: "The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes." https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/bq36zm/reminder_from_the_bitcoin_whitepaper_the_system/ 167 comments btc
- Who Controls Bitcoin Core? https://medium.com/@lopp/who-controls-bitcoin-core-c55c0af91b8a 27 comments btc
- The 2017 Fork Wars – the Battle of Ideas and Control of Bitcoin https://www.yours.org/content/the-2017-fork-wars---the-battle-of-ideas-and-control-of-bitcoin-96dff5ac8b83 3 comments btc
- Is anyone else having the most terrific time watching core and their minions try and hang on to their control of Bitcoin? Or is it just me? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6uh67w/is_anyone_else_having_the_most_terrific_time/ 99 comments btc
- Reactions of bitcoin core to @SDLerner posting #segwit2x spec whereby segwit is to be released in a codebase they don't control https://twitter.com/dgenr818/status/884202046458482688 4 comments btc
- Core devs just want absolute control over Bitcoin, including control of supply. They will market this as "control of inflation rates". http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/02/the-2-biggest-emerging-opportunities-in-cryptocurrency/ 70 comments btc
- urbandictionary.com Bitcoin - Hashcash extended with inflation control. http://bitcoin.urbanup.com/10813262 5 comments btc
- As more people use bitcoin around the world, it becomes even harder to control by govts even as the size of the blocks increases https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/792118760094048256 78 comments btc
- If you could start Bitcoin again from scratch how would you ensure that it didn't again become controlled by only a handful of people? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4x5s0d/if_you_could_start_bitcoin_again_from_scratch_how/ 106 comments btc
- Who Controls Ethereum? (and what it means for Bitcoin) by Daniel Krawisz of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/who-controls-ethereum/ 12 comments btc
- Bitcoin Is Just The Beginning Imagine a personal-identity service that gives us control over selling our personal data. Right now, Google and Facebook reap the profit. http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-is-just-the-beginning-1464302194 21 comments technology
- Hollywood hospital pays $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers who took control of computers http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hollywood-hospital-bitcoin-20160217-story.html 135 comments sysadmin
- Stephen Pair of BitPay: Miners control Bitcoin …and that’s a good thing https://medium.com/@spair/miners-control-bitcoin-eea7a8479c9c 46 comments btc
- PSA: If you're worried about a run on the banks... bitcoin users aren't affected by bad monetary policy or out of control spending governments. Don't believe what the banks say about bitcoin. Bitcoin is here to save the day! http://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-greece-breaks-silence-bitcoin/ 198 comments greece
- Bitcoin has the potential to be a long-term store of value with a fixed supply that protects its value, unlike fiat currencies, which are government-issued currencies not backed by a physical commodity and controlled by central banks https://www.yahoo.com/now/bitcoin-vs-gold-buy-175037032.html 9 comments cryptocurrency
- “Bitcoin represents a system where censorship is impossible, with no bias, no favoritism, no handouts, and no money printing” ... Except the subreddit they’re posting in, and everywhere else the BTC dev team or other core maximalists control... https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/lb7gq1/gamestop_stock_craze_is_basically_a_20_billion_ad/ 6 comments btc
- Just two individuals control ~61.11% of the BCH hashrate. It's not "decentralized", it is a 51% attack by a single group of collaborating selfish miners. They will steal coins and distribute them amongst themselves. Bitcoin (BCH) cannot take this risk. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9wt8us/just_two_individuals_control_6111_of_the_bch/ 35 comments btc
- "Because of such a global and universal need for sound money, Bitcoin Cash will be simply adopted... The need for real money will overpower the desire for governments and central banks to control the money supply. The world’s populations will demand it." https://twitter.com/jonathanaird/status/1040304532822142976?s=21 29 comments btc
- This video on YouTube provides more proof that Bitcoin Core, Blockstream and Lightning are enemies of Bitcoin (also shows that Litecoin is controlled by them as well) https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/94rrtj/this_video_on_youtube_provides_more_proof_that/ 51 comments btc
- If you were central bank or government, how would you coopt, control or constrain Bitcoin? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5hkgj8/if_you_were_central_bank_or_government_how_would/ 9 comments btc
- China Prepares To Impose Curbs, "Capital Controls" On Bitcoin http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-03/china-prepares-impose-curbs-capital-controls-bitcoin 8 comments worldnews
- @aantonop in Summer 2015(15 minutes in) “Centralistaion in ASICs is not a problem because [they] make too much money or because we want to change who controls the network. It’s a problem because […] the mining can be shifted to an organisation that doesn’t have bitcoin’s best interest in mind.” https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-285-back-in-the-day 3 comments btc
- "Two Sided Coin Control" - Shinobi discusses the nature of Bitcoin scaling and the choice between trusted third parties, or upgrading Bitcoin to remove the need for them. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/two-sided-coin-control 2 comments bitcoin
- Another example of Blockstream Core rewriting history: Bitcoin message board founded by satoshi and now controlled by /u/Theymos, satoshi got a badge under his name saying "Bitcoin Core Developer". satoshi "died" long before Core existed, he was never a Core developer. New corners will have no idea. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5io6id/another_example_of_blockstream_core_rewriting/ 44 comments btc
- The Bitcoin Cash Network is undergoing a network upgrade on 15 November 2020. Due to one of the seven Bitcoin Cash BCH full node software projects attempting to divert 8% of the coinbase reward into a wallet under the control of Amaury Séchet it looks like ABC will provide BCH holders a free airdrop https://bitcoincash.site/upgrade/ 74 comments btc
- Bitcoin Cash is Reinventing Identity: CashID is an open protocol that allows secure authentication for users, proving to service providers that they control a specific Bitcoin Cash address. https://gitlab.com/cashid/protocol-specification 4 comments btc
- It’s time for another reminder - Craig Wright is NOT Bitcoin Cash. He never was. Bitcoin Cash is all of us including anyone that wants to be a part of it. No single person owns or controls Bitcoin Cash. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/74jv27/craig_wright_is_not_the_face_of_or_ceo_bitcoin/ 341 comments btc
- For those who are worried about "decentralization" due to increasing the block size, you seem to be ignoring the fact that Bitcoin is completely centralized and controlled by a single development team. https://forum.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-discussion/bitcoin-vs-paypal-a-fork-in-the-road-t9777.html 412 comments btc
- If a few companies, or even a cluster of companies, can effectively take control of bitcoin governance, and force a change — that is a definitional failure of Bitcoin’s decentralised value proposition in itself. — Adam Back • r/Bitcoin https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/78l04b/if_a_few_companies_or_even_a_cluster_of_companies/ 40 comments btc
- "If a few companies, or even a cluster of companies, can effectively take control of bitcoin governance, and force a change — that is a definitional failure of Bitcoin’s decentralised value proposition in itself." -Adam Beck, President of Bcore https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6sormg/if_a_few_companies_or_even_a_cluster_of_companies/ 24 comments btc
- nullc disputes that Satoshi Nakamoto left Gavin in control of Bitcoin, asks for citation, then disappears after such citation is clearly provided. greg maxwell is blatantly a toxic troll and an enemy of Satoshi's Bitcoin. https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5nr6fu/wheres_gavin/dckw2er/ 201 comments btc
- Take Me Back Tuesday (from 1 yr ago): "The owners of Blockstream are spending $76 million to do a "controlled demolition" of Bitcoin. This is cheap compared to the $ trillions spent on the wars on Iraq & Libya - who also defied the Fed / PetroDollar / BIS private central banking cartel." https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5q6kjo/the_owners_of_blockstream_are_spending_76_million/ 19 comments btc
- r/bitcoin, the main sub for the bitcoin community is held and run by a person who goes by the pseudonym u/theymos . Theymos not only controls r/bitcoin, but also bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.com. These are top three communication channels for the bitcoin community, all controlled by just one person. https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/informative_btc_vs_bch_articles/dl8v4lp/ 75 comments btc
- The biggest threat to Bitcoin is Blockstream President Adam "Phd" Back. He never understood Bitcoin, but he wants to control it and radically change it. It is time for Bitcoin users, developers and miners to reject his dangerous ideas and his attempts to centrally control our community and our code. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/47ucpv/the_rbtc_china_dispatch_episode_10_one_bitcoin/ 59 comments btc
- How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin’s Civil War | Through vast server farms and canny investments, Chinese companies have effectively centralized control over a currency designed to be borderless. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/business/dealbook/bitcoin-china.html?ref=world&_r=0 5 comments technology
- Breaking: The notorious company "Blockstream" with a stranglehold on Bitcoin's "core" developers is controlled by Henri de Castries, Chairman, Bilderberg Group (and Chairman and CEO, AXA Group, AXA Strategic Ventures), who was co-lead investor for Blockstream's $55 million financing round. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/47zfzt/blockstream_is_now_controlled_by_the_bilderberg/ 6 comments privacy