These Are the Times Bitcoin Was Made For

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
This past Friday, PayPal informed Alex Jones' Infowars it was severing ties with the website and that it had ten days to find an alternative payment processor. The news transported me back to that summer day a little over six years ago when I first acutely recognized the power and potential of Bitcoin, and then publicly decided to embrace it.
By August 2012, Wikileaks had been under a financial blockade for nearly two years. It was at this point I came across an article by Jon Matonis published in Forbes, detailing the predicament as well as the clear threat this posed to freedom of the press and free speech in general. He noted:
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