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Censorship Resistance

fundamentals.censorship-resistance

Why open participation and distributed validation make transaction censorship costly and fragile.

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Curated resources (4)

• Bitcoin Developer Guide: P2P Network (article) Decentralized relay and peer diversity context.
• Bitcoin Core Tor Documentation (article) Practical node-level transport hardening against network-level censorship.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Anonymity Networks (article) Network-layer privacy techniques that improve censorship resistance.
• The Little Bitcoin Book (book) Human-rights framing for why open monetary access and resistance to exclusion matter.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Nodes vs Miners
• Peer-to-Peer Network Topology

Direct dependents (3)

• AML/KYC and Sanctions Tradeoffs
• Bitcoin and Anarchism
• Trustlessness

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