• Geobloke@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Surely it’s treason to launch a new currency not backed by the US government while you are the government

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      10 hours ago

      Doesn’t matter what’s legal or treasonous or whatever. He gets away with everything. His Republicans lackey and Supreme Court will do nothing.

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    Politicians should have to take a vow of poverty and celibacy and if they’re caught owning more than two pairs of shoes we tear them apart starting with the tips of the fingers and toes and working spineward one bone at a time while all of the others watch with their eyelids stapled open. “Greed detected. Mandatory disassembly initiated. All innocents will be harmed. The guilty will be harmed a LOT more.”

    Has anybody tried this? Maybe we can give it a try here in North America after Trump burns down the United States.

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    I’ve posted this on another thread and I’ll post it here too: The left has been in denial in regards to crypto. It needs to embrace decentralised crypto currencies such as ETH asap or perish. After all the current world/system we live in is ran by capital and without leftists are powerless. Either that or rivers of blood and no guarantees.

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      I’ve been following this stuff for a long time and most people don’t have the first clue about what the US government has been doing with cryptocurrency, which in many cases amounts to overt attacks on the freedom to write and publish open software (which does affect more than just crypto). Kind of hard for there be a meaningful conversation about it when the whole topic is kind of taboo, saturated with simplistic narratives, and basic information about what is happening isn’t even widely known.

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    It’s already a crime. But at this point we’re just setting the pile on fire and pushing it into the sea.

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    11 hours ago

    Rest assured that any crypto legislation will fail to address complete scams and will simply stifle innovation instead.

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        10 hours ago

        I 100% don’t agree. There’s bullshit masquerading as innovation, and all kinds of harmful technology, but innovation (read: technology) has given us everything of actual value that we have.

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            Not sure what point you’re making. Think I covered all those bases in my message.