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> Bitcoin has anti censor mechanics.

While people like to claim there is some anti-censor magic, it's not really true when block space is full. There is nothing in the code to penalize miners for ignoring a particular transaction for weeks or forever.

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I'm referencing the core idea of it being decentralized and "anonymous"

A public ledger is not really anonymous, whether you put that in quotes or not. It can be censored, and this is a difficult game theory problem to solve. There are a few major mining pools which build the blocks, and some think that is not decentralized.

Bitcoin was an amazing advancement and I hope it can grow into solving some of these apparent challenges.

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