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> And that the US Federal Government is worried about North Korea getting their hands on the WMD-level technology that are Ethereum Tokens. There's significant
by rodgerd 7y ago
> And that the US Federal Government is worried about North Korea getting their hands on the WMD-level technology that are Ethereum Tokens.
There's significant evidence that North Korea has been using cryptocurrency to evade sanctions and prop up their murderous regime, so I don't see what seems ridiculous to you about that.
- CryptoPunk 7y agoWe're going to stop murderous regimes by creating a totalitarian centralized global financial surveillance system, and imprisoning anyone who uses financial channels that don't comply with it? Opposing murderous regimes is worthwhile. Doing it by criminalizing financial privacy and creating surveillance systems that are more expansive than anything the world has ever seen and that everyone is strong-armed into using them, is not. Mandates to comply with an Orwellian warrantless surveillance system in Xinxiang are, according to the Chinese government, justified by the threat of terrorism. This is how these kinds of totalitarian impositions are always rationalized. There's always a good reason for them, to advance public safety and national security, according to their advocates.