The Bitcoin Word Game

Words are very important. Even more so with bitcoin, competing constituencies craft specific words and phrases to evoke a predetermined image or outcome.

With a little help from political wordsmith observer Bill Maher, let’s look at some popular examples of this practice in action.

Avoiding the negative

For a long time, assisted suicide as a positive right with legal protections had a difficult time gaining acceptance. Once it was phrased as aid in dying, several US states passed legislation protecting the practice.

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