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Protecting from the ability to make ransomware payments is by far the most ridiculous excuse I have ever heard for regulating crypto. Protecting idiots from the
by suifbwish 6y ago
Protecting from the ability to make ransomware payments is by far the most ridiculous excuse I have ever heard for regulating crypto. Protecting idiots from the consequences of their own stupidity by regulating everyone else is not and will never be a strategic policy. It’s just the political excuse used to enact policies which serve other goals.
- UShouldBWorking 6y agoI agree, until right now I would have guessed anyone suggesting such a thing was joking. But mostly I still am just chalking it up to the standard unfounded HN hatred for Bitcoin. Looks like op just found another excuse to bad mouth a technology they missed out on. So people too dumb to make back up copies of their data now need protection from the government in the form of strick currency controls? Who is Op, the Chinese government?