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Re:10 years of whatever this has been by Kbelicius on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:24AM (#29262546)
> Easy: it's censorship-resistant. You send a transaction and no middleman, no financial organization, no one can prevent you from sending it. You can transact with anyone, anywhere, 24/7/365, however much you want, $100 or $100 million.

This is not completely true. There are middleman and in bitcoin world they are called miners. They are the ones that need to add your transaction to a block and who you need to pay so that they do that. Control the miners and you can censor all you want.

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Re:10 years of whatever this has been by bradwood on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:53AM (#29263131)
Middlemen implies a few (or one) centrally controlable group (or unit). BTC miners are anything but this.

Is a router a middleman on the internet? No. Same thing.

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Re:10 years of whatever this has been by Kbelicius on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:30AM (#29275368)
> Middlemen implies a few (or one) centrally controlable group (or unit).

No it does not.

> Is a router a middleman on the internet?

If that router is controlled by a third party, then yes, a router(entity owning that router) is in fact a middleman.

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