TD₿: Inalienable Property Rights by Gigi
TL;DR If speech and the free exercise thereof is sacred, then Bitcoin is sacred because all that Bitcoin requires of you is to think and to speak.
Hey Bitcoiners,
When you drive Bitcoin down to its bare minimum, it’s just computer code. A sequence of zeros and ones that combine to create digital money.
Computer code is written in programming languages, in other words, it is a form of speech. But it was not always viewed this way…
It wasn’t until the mid-1990s when the Electronic Frontier Foundation successfully sued the US government in Bernstein v. Department of Justice, that computer code was ruled a form of speech and thus was protected by the First Amendment.
Since Bitcoin is code, Bitcoin can be thought of as simply information on a transparent, decentralized ledger that is shared peer-to-peer. Therefore if the US government attempted to ban it, it would be a violation of the First Amendment and our guaranteed inalienable rights.
My friend Gigi gave us this masterpiece last week that delves into the law, money language, and morality of Bitcoin (04/03/2022).
As Gigi so aptly writes, “Bitcoin is free speech money.”
Tick tock next block,
Cory Klippsten
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Quote of the Day
“This court can find no meaningful difference between computer language, particularly high-level languages as defined above, and German or French...Like music and mathematical equations, computer language is just that, language, and it communicates information either to a computer or to those who can read it.” - Judge Patel, 1996
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