Bitcoin As A CBDC

The article argues that Bitcoin could become a tool for the same controls and surveillance that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) promise, and that it is not inherently freedom money. It says Bitcoin's transactions are fully public, which makes financial surveillance more efficient than physical camera surveillance, and that U.S. politicians including Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Francis Suarez have supported surveillance measures. It also points to Senators Ted Cruz and Ted Budd and Governor Jared Polis as backing legislation that would extend censorship or surveillance, and warns that concentrated mining in one jurisdiction could expose miners to restrictions such as blacklists.