they can assign mods as well

The whitelist is used by the communities we run, but anybody can run a community and they can ignore the whitelist. It's totally opt-in. Also, it's only temporary till we figure out a good sybil resistant challenge design with great UX

You're thinking in federation, it's a p2p network. Every user is equal to each other in terms of posting to each other communities.

If I'm hosting community then yes I can ban you, or assign mods who can ban people

It's a social network for the plebs instead of corporate overlords. Sounds good to me

You can do all the things you mentioned. If you're a user you can opt to block communities from showing on your feed, although eventually we're gonna have tags so people can mark SFW, NSFW and political, etc so devs can make clients that filters based on that.

Also if you're a community owner you can ban people from your sub, you're in full control of your community.

Yes that's a problem on the web (working on it atm), but desktop apps should be much faster since it's pure p2p. Try out Seedit, https://github.com/plebbit/seedit

The community owner does. Every community owner is in full charge of their community.

You can block and ban people if you’re the community owner, the point is there’s no federated instances that block people arbitrarily. Every community owner is in full charge of their community.

Yes we had a lot of spam a few months ago but we cleaned it up by adding additional challenges and a white list for the time being till we get to MVP stage

what's wrong with it

You can block and ban people if you're the community owner though, the point is there's no federated instances that block people arbitrarily. Every community owner is in full charge of their community.

you specifically mentioned Bitcoin I did not, I believe that was OP

included cryptocurrency integration Only for things we believe web3 does better; such as name systems, uncensorable financial transaction