Date: 2025-07-22 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
Bob
Bob argues that bitcoin is "for facking everyone" and that no gatekeepers get to decide who uses it, then applies the same logic to Stackchain, whose openness mirrored the bitcoin blockchain even though it ran on a centralized social media app. He recalls that participants called themselves nodes and tried to dictate which stacks were valid, but that following stacks ultimately verified the chain and nobody could be excluded, which let side chains, education, philosophy and friendships grow on top of it. The centerpiece is the revelation that a Stackchainer, Peter Ansel, was a convicted pedophile, the decision by some to hold the information until after Christmas, and Psyduck publishing it before the group conversation ended. Bob concludes that openness is part of bitcoin's price and still worth paying, but that the cost should not be ignored.
Archive summary written from the sources below — not a quotation.
it was the following stacks that verified what became part of the chain and what was left outhttps://www.stackchainmagazine.net/bitcoin-is-for-facking-everyone/
The week before Christmas a few of us found out that one of us, Peter Ansel, was a convicted pedophilehttps://www.stackchainmagazine.net/bitcoin-is-for-facking-everyone/
My dream is that no one would ever have to stack alone again.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/bitcoin-is-for-facking-everyone/
Bob argues Stackchain, like bitcoin, must stay open to everyone, told through the Peter Ansel affair.
Machine-written summary, not an editorial statement.
Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 55, category chain-history. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/bitcoin-is-for-facking-everyone/