Bitcoin’s Protection under the First Amendment, by Ross Stevens (Bitcoin Out Loud on THE Bitcoin Podcast)

"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, bitcoin is an expressive association.

Bitcoin is free speech protected by the First Amendment and therefore regulating bitcoin has clear constitutional implications."

On this Bitcoin Out Loud episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast,