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I love how Fiat Money was designed to be impossible to use for illegal purposes, and there is no way to steal it. I mean really, if there were a way for it to b

• root_axis 9y ago
  > I love how Fiat Money was designed to be impossible to use for illegal purposes, and there is no way to steal it. So, I catch the meaning behind your sarcastic quip, but all you're doing here is offering up an absurd strawman. Obviously any currency can be stolen or used for illegal purposes, that's a willfully disingenuous interpretation of the argument because nobody has ever said that. This kind of reasoning would be like if someone said "the nature of dynamic typing makes the code prone to error" and you respond with "I love how strong static types were designed to make bugs impossible to produce, and there is no way it will cause the program to crash unexpectedly".
  • hanselot 9y ago
    > and even with all that people regularly have their bitcoins stolen or irreparably lost. > Obviously any currency can be stolen or used for illegal purposes So what is the purpose of your argument if all of that simply points out that any currency can be stolen or misplaced?
    • root_axis 9y ago
      On my part, I am going to end the discussion here since you appear to have ignored everything else I posted.