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How Blockchain Will Save Freedom Of Speech

Ryan DeLongpre
3 min readJan 11, 2018

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Every dictator’s dream is to control the narrative and centralized financial institution are doing just that, under our nose.

Whether you agree with Peter political views or not, you should be very worried that Paypal decided to starve him out of his job. And I can only wonder how many other journalists, that we don’t know of, have been censored by Paypal and other financial institution.

As usual “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom knew how vital it was, for a successful democracy, to have freedom of speech. If we cannot talk about the problems how are we supposed to find a solution?

Thankfully for us, freedom of speech and all of its necessary consequences, will be soon guaranteed by the Blockchain.

The Blockchain is the underlying technology on which Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies operate. In short: the blockchain allows anybody to send any amount of money (value) to anybody else in minutes, without the need to ask permission to do so. No more Paypal, no more Visa, no more bank teller asking “why are you sending all this money to this dude in Sweden?”

The internet freed up the circulation of information and in just a couple of decades took down corrupt…

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Ryan DeLongpre
Ryan DeLongpre

Written by Ryan DeLongpre

Italian born, US stationed. #bitcoin

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