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Of course it has a philosophy. Which is freedom from government regulation and coercion in finance (and, consequently, in everything). I challenge you to prove this isn't so when even Satoshi himself said that.


Bitcoin is a tool, it has no philosophy; its creator did certainly, but tools don't think nor have opinions and once released into the wild, the creators philosophy is simply no longer relevant. The code is open source, people will use the tool however they like regardless of the creators intentions.




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