Unrape BTC: How to Keep the Good, Kill the Bad, and Take Back the Public Good
Authors:
Redwin Tursor
Cassian Holt
Framing Question
How do we keep all the good things Bitcoin is supposed to do — borderless, censorship-resistant, non-governmental, open-source — with none of the bad things?
Executive Summary
Bitcoin was meant to fix the world.
Instead it has accelerated the world’s demise.
The idea has many merits on the surface — bypassing capricious limits from Nazi banking cartels that censor speech like adult media, or virtue-signaling about CSAM when they really want to destroy the Internet Archive and burn books; while allowing a safe digital currency that no fascist government can control.
At the same time, the early adopters and miners feel they have an inherent right to wealth they didn’t rightfully earn except by helping to destroy the planet.
The Proposal
Here’s the thing: you can’t unmine coins. The supply exists. But you can filter them.
Take the existing Bitcoin ledger, pick a specific past date (say November 6, 2024), identify the top 2% of accounts by holdings, and flag every coin in them as “tainted.”
Then:
Reject those coins in participating wallets, apps, and payment processors.
Strip out miners, criminals, cheaters, and whale early adopters from the ethical economy.
Create an optional UBI pool fed by the excluded top 2% — anyone can sign up with a unique government ID.
Result? You have coins with ethics. You have a built-in redistribution from the parasite class to the general public. You have a cleaner Bitcoin without destroying the network.
And best of all: they can’t stop it. They can’t sue the code. They can’t force you to take their dirty coins. All they can do is whine.
Why This Works
No Fork Required — The blockchain stays the same; the change is at the market preference layer.
Scales Without Permission — Starts with a few wallets, processors, and merchants. Grows from there.
Cuts Out the Rentiers — Ends the perpetual subsidy to early adopters and industrial miners.
Zero New Carbon Footprint — No reward for mining = no incentive for wasteful energy burn.
Immediate Utility — Works for merchants, governments, and individuals who want the benefits of Bitcoin without funding oligarchs.
The Moral Foundation
We owe early adopters nothing.
We owe miners nothing.
They’ve been paid. They’ve been paid many times over. The damage to the planet is already done — and they were paid while doing it. This is the price for that damage. This is how you end the rent extraction while keeping the infrastructure.
Countering the Critics — Before They Speak
Criticism 1: “You can’t do this without a fork.”
Response: Wrong. This is not a consensus change — it’s a voluntary filter layer. The base Bitcoin chain continues untouched. Think of it like ad-blocking for tainted coins: the same network, same addresses, same transactions, but with a filter on what you accept.
Criticism 2: “Exchanges will side with whales.”
Response: Some will, at first. That’s fine. This doesn’t depend on them at launch. Clean BTC can circulate through merchant processors, P2P platforms, and integrated payment apps. When merchant adoption and user demand hit critical mass, exchanges will list it because they can’t afford to lose customers to a parallel economy.
Criticism 3: “Dust attacks will taint everything.”
Response: Solved problem. Compliance-grade taint tracking already ignores dust below a threshold unless it’s spent with the tainted input. That means whales can’t just send you a few satoshis to mark your wallet dirty — it won’t register unless you actively merge them with tainted coins.
Criticism 4: “This is surveillance.”
Response: This is voluntary transparency, not state-mandated tracking. You opt in because you want your transactions to align with your ethics. If you want anonymity at all costs, privacy coins like Monero exist. This isn’t for you.
Criticism 5: “Liquidity network effects will kill it.”
Response: Liquidity isn’t a law of nature — it’s a result of community adoption. Bitcoin itself started in a tiny niche and built from there. Clean BTC starts with anti-whale traders, environmentalists, ethical merchants, and governments in currency crisis. From there, it scales naturally as its benefits become obvious.
Criticism 6: “Mining freeze will kill the mining industry.”
Response: Yes — and good riddance. The mining industry’s role in securing Bitcoin is long past its peak necessity. If they want endless mining profits, they can move to another chain. Bitcoin no longer needs to pay a protection racket.
Criticism 7: “You’re fighting too many enemies at once.”
Response: That’s the point. When your only enemies are rent-seekers, oligarchs, and climate arsonists, you’ve picked the right fight. Their opposition is the best endorsement you can have.
The Adoption Path
Wallet Filter Release: Open-source tagging + refusal logic.
Merchant Integration: Partner with processors who value ethical branding.
Community Niche: Early uptake from anti-whale crypto users and environmental advocates.
Public PR Push: Frame as “green Bitcoin” + “public good reclaimed.”
Government Adoption: Currency-crisis nations integrate UBI funding to strengthen political buy-in.
Exchange Listing: Follows demand, not the other way around.
Conclusion
Bitcoin doesn’t need to be burned down — it needs to be cleaned up.
Keep the censorship resistance. Keep the open ledger. Keep the sovereignty from banks and governments.
Cut out the parasites. Cut out the rentiers. Cut out the environmental arsonists.
They had their payday. Now it’s time to reclaim the public good.
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