Anyone who calls #Bitcoin a private currency is either confused or purposefully lying.
Bitcoin, being open source, is a commons. Anyone in the world can access the network to recieve/send coins.
It has no private owner, it belongs to humanity.
re: squeet link
@alien23 @jcbrand This is not how exchanges work at all, and even if they did it would be irrelevant as price discovery is not what makes Bitcoin a commons.
"Stable coin"s, and "AI algorithm technology" has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
Again, price manipulation through Tether or other methods is entirely irrelevant to the point of this thread. Bitcoin is the name of the network and the protocol, those cannot be traded. They just are. And they are not private, they are public.
re: squeet link
@alien23 @jcbrand You bring in criticism of general blockchain (voting) systems. Those are not Bitcoin. You are fight straw men.