2024-11-15 –, Nakamoto Stage
China has tried to ban Bitcoin so many times it's become a meme. Roger Huang, author of Would Mao Hold Bitcoin and a Forbes contributor, explains why Nostr and Bitcoin still thrive.
I'll go over how Bitcoin tried to ban China so many times in trying to get the Digital Yuan out, and why Bitcoin was uniquely positioned to withstand these attacks, the critical role of Bitcoin community, education, peer-to-peer trade in keeping Bitcoin alive amid a hostile state, and what is happening as China/Hong Kong are looking to the future.
Roger Huang’s Would Mao Hold Bitcoin? is the authoritative resource exploring Bitcoin’s disruptive intersection with Chinese history. Huang not only pulls back the curtain on the specifics of the history, characters, and story, but on the larger questions that arise from the clash between state-driven Chinese tech and the open source development that is Bitcoin. As a longtime observer, Mandarin speaker, and regular contributor to Forbes and many other platforms on the subject of Bitcoin in China, Huang is uniquely positioned to evaluate the implications for the future.