"Heavily moderated" does it a huge disservice. The narrative is controlled, with any dissenting opinions removed and accounts banned. The sub is completely censored, see for example:
Except that all Blockstream projects are not only allowed, but promoted on r/bitcoin. If the subs own rules were followed they should be banned.
For example how Liquid, a centralized sidechain that goes against the idea of cryptocurrencies, is promoted as a "solution" to many of Bitcoins problems. But any critique of it is banned.
It's obvious that the mods are somehow associated with Blockstream. Only a Blockstream employee such as yourself would disagree.
In fact, r/btc is controlled by for-profit entity (bitcoin,com which has little to nothing to do with Bitcoin the project) and has advertisements blasted all over the subreddit page.
It is the furthest thing from a lie and can be verified by anyone who wants to try posting to both subreddits. Anyone can also go to a site that shows deleted comments and see the discussions that get deleted on /r/bitcoin.
That's an obvious lie, people payed by blockstream directly or indirectly have been in control of the sub for years, deleting any thread or comment that contradicts the narrative they want to push.
This is a well worn topic and I think you know that. Surely you realize that anyone can google bockstream takeover on reddit, but are counting on people not doing research.
This is meant for people who aren't familiar with the takeover of the Bitcoin GitHub and subreddit. /r/bitcoin deletes anything that goes against blockstream's narrative while /r/btc is an open discussion. /r/btc is constantly trolled with full on lies.
The effort is all to keep Bitcoin constrained to never increase its throughout so that people will be forced to use blockstream's awkward and unnecessary layer in top. This is why all the original developers and more were replaced with people funded by blockstream. While there are many contributors listed on GitHub there is very little development allowed to be merged from outsiders.
If anyone doubts this, go try to have a discussion of increasing the block size on /r/Bitcoin and see how fast your comments are deleted or your account banned. Make sure to look at it without your main account. At best they will tell you it is impossible even though many other cryptocurrencies have done it with no problems (and anyone can see that the resource usage is tiny). These things can be independently verified.
It's easy to check the sidebar. There are links to bitcoin.com and a bunch of others as well.
> Most of the mods are employees of Bitcoin,com.
Funny, how you're the one quite literally lying. It's called psychological projection.
Of course, the Blockstream propaganda is what destroyed r/bitcoin, and it's quite common here on hacker news as well. Just look at who's writing the comment...
Open discussion of Bitcoin is at r/btc. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_aske...