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You think we should be blocked from donating to wikileaks? You think venezuelans should be forced to use their local currency? You think Zimbabwe's people sho
by rothbardrand 9y ago
You think we should be blocked from donating to wikileaks?
You think venezuelans should be forced to use their local currency?
You think Zimbabwe's people should go thru hyper inflation again? They are about to, and bitcoin is booming there as an alternative.
Sorry, you seem to think you know better than other people what they should value and what they should do.
Bitcoin is completely voluntary, you don't like it, don't participate.
It's also not your energy getting spent.
At the risk of sounding like a libertarian: Other people are not your property.
- UncleMeat 9y agoOh come on. We should be charitable in our discussions. The comment clearly mentions that there are some useful applications, which cover the censorship and collapsing government use-cases. The important thing to recognize is that the large majority of people don't have these use-cases. This means that BTC becomes a niche system rather than supplanting world banking. It isn't my energy being spent, but it is CO2 that harms our planet. Until we have zero-emissions energy I think it is reasonable to criticize systems as energy-inefficient.
- vorotato 9y agoWhy are we blaming the individuals who use the energy rather than the individuals who make the energy dirty in the first place. Place the blame where autonomy is.
- ben_w 9y agoThere is plenty of autonomy to blame when someone chooses to use an absurdly large amount of energy when a trivial amount would solve the same problem.
- ben_w 9y agoAs I recall, Zimbabwe banned other currencies last time. Why do you think Bitcoin wouldn’t get banned with all the other currencies if the situation repeated? And don’t bother suggesting a Bitcoin ban wouldn’t be enforceable unless you can say why the same excuse wouldn’t also apply to every other currency.