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by null0pointer 4y ago
That is not money laundering.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Monero.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
I like crypto, though not really what it has become in recent years. I too hope the US government does not step in. That would be totally antithetical to the entire point of crypto.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
> Half of this country (US) denies that Sandy Hook happened, they deny that the election was fair, they think that every mass shooting is staged in an attempt by the government to seize their guns. Half? This is such a gross overestimati
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by null0pointer 4y ago
What I find interesting is that the plane wings are modular enough to actually do stuff like this. Pretty cool!
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by null0pointer 4y ago
I am also trying to get better at this. I find that a lot of my own non-critical thinking hinges on assumptions I've treated almost as axioms. So perhaps a good place to start would be working on identifying the underlying assumptions
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by null0pointer 4y ago
That is a separate point to the first sentence. In the second sentence they also say to remove gangs which they claim in the first sentence is the leading cause of gun deaths so applying your logic doesn’t make any sense.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
False. Most, approximately 60% of the total, gun deaths in the United States are suicide.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
My interpretation of what GP is trying to say that the way forward is to intentionally limit your own capabilities such that it is simply impossible to comply with government overreach. For an example see Signal and their subpoenas.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
> When people trade dollars the world does things. when people trade bitcoin... the world continues to do things. The unit of account has nothing to do with actual production.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Yeah, if these people had any integrity they wouldn't lean on the legal system to solve their problems. This case highlights the core problem with NFTs, that being you cannot have digital property without some kind of enforcement in th
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by null0pointer 4y ago
This is a stupid law, no doubt. But this is also a very fucking stupid article. You would do much better without such quotes as: “Every Finance student I’ve ever met is completely retarded.” and “Who else but a woman could come up with the
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Correct, in most jurisdictions I'm aware of. I was just being facetious :)
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by null0pointer 4y ago
If crypto goes to a tiny fraction of a cent then I will buy all of it. Since I will never sell it for zero then it can never go to zero.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Ok, then don't tax it if its value is zero.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
If you don’t think there is fundamental value in permissionless, uncensorable, peer-to-peer online money transfer that is not controlled by any government or any single entity at all then nothing anyone can say will be able to convince you
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by null0pointer 4y ago
There’s a fourth camp: People who have no other choice because the content has not been made available in their region.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
The real reason is that it allows you to trade using “United States Dollars” on exchanges which have no banking connections and often no KYC compliance. When you want to take a break from trading you can just put it into a “stable” coin and
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by null0pointer 4y ago
If piracy ever actually touched their bottom line in the first place.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
How is that relevant at all? Also why would Snowden claim about Russia not invading Ukraine be worth paying attention to in the first place? It's not like he's the first person to have an uninformed opinion.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
I think this is true. I also think the flipside of the coin is true. So much of the crypto hate can be explained by jealousy and anger at missing out.
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by null0pointer 4y ago
I feel like we've got this totally backwards. If we're going to have laws around speech at all then it should protect the general public more than public figures. In fact some public figures, such as politicians, should be entirel
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Thanks for the info! 1. I see current fees are around $1.90/txn these days. My bad, it’s been quite some time since I’ve made a Bitcoin transaction. If on-chain transactions are cheap, what motivation does a user have to use lightning?
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Unfortunately the lightning network re-introduces payment processor middle-men which is unacceptable in my opinion. Yes, anyone can open a channel with a merchant, but it will take at least 2 expensive on-chain transactions (open/close
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by null0pointer 4y ago
Cash is good, in fact Bitcoin was originally proposed as “Peer-to-peer digital cash”. Crypto attempts to extend some of the properties of cash to the internet. Unfortunately Bitcoin has kind of failed in this goal at this point and become u
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by null0pointer 5y ago
> No other country has managed to accomplish what CCP has in its coordinated campaign across the globe. How would you know? Maybe others just haven't been caught yet. It would be naive to think that China is the only country doing,
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by null0pointer 5y ago
> it looks like you’ve been predominantly using Fi abroad over the past 3 months I used my Fi SIM and international roaming continuously outside the US for 13 months over 2020/21 and never received a message like this or had my serv
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by null0pointer 5y ago
This is getting fucking stupid. Honestly. Companies should not be escalating the situation like this. Leave the geopolitics to the diplomats who are at the negotiating table. Being required to do things like this via sanctions is one thing,
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by null0pointer 5y ago
Just ignore this guy, he’s a troll. The Cyphertrace thing he is referring to is 2 years old and EXTREMELY overblown. There is a an unclaimed bounty from the FBI to trace Monero transactions. Wouldn’t cyphertrace have claimed it if they actu
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by null0pointer 5y ago
I would not be ok with that. Threats of nuclear war should be resolved at the negotiating table. Random private companies voluntarily retaliating only risks making the situation more delicate.

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