Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:52 pm

One of the reasons we as a community have had trouble with censorship is that a lot of the discussion and new conglomeration happens on centralized sites. Twitter is much more free. You can say whatever you want. People have an option of following you or interacting with you if they want.The same with blogs. If each of us had a blog, we could still interact with each other by linking to each other's posts and commenting on each other's posts. There would be less ways over zealous bitcoiners could control the conversation.Blogs do take a bit more upkeep than an irregular forum post; but if you use wordpress.com or blogger it is not too hard. And alliances of blogs can be formed to foster discussions about certain subjects or from certain points of view.If blogs are too hard, there is always Medium It's the same with bitcoin services transactions. If we all use our own wallets where we control our own private keys we can (as long as the bitcoin network stays viable for common people to transact) do our transactions with who we want when we want how we want. If we all stuck to some common wallet provider, like Coinbase , we could bitch and moan whenever they didn't let us do something we wanted to do, but we'd have no recourse other than complaining.Just as we use Coinbase as an onramp into bitcoin, let's use this forum and others as just one means of discussion and communication. But, if you don't have a twitter account, start one. And maybe we should all start blogs as well.Let's control our own private keys; whether it's in our bitcoin transactions or in our communications.I should note, Coinbase does have a very cool option to allow bitcoin holders to hold their own private keys.