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This position makes all sorts of unfounded assumptions about the nature of your government, that it is operating in your best interest, that it hasn't been capt
by zionic 6y ago
This position makes all sorts of unfounded assumptions about the nature of your government, that it is operating in your best interest, that it hasn't been captured by outside forces/interests etc etc.
- pelliphant 6y agoÌ'm scandinavian, so yes, I assume that my government is more on my side that pretty much any for-profit organization in the world.
- tofuahdude 6y agoConsider for a moment that there's a world outside of your country with governments that are not trustworthy.
- pelliphant 6y agoThat is true. But people from those countries could use a currency from one of the more trusted governments instead of using bitcoins. As an example: american dollars was used as currency in a lot of soviet states.
- insertnickname 6y agoI'm Scandinavian too. I don't assume that.
- UncleMeat 6y agoWhy would I expect a few software engineers to make better choices? When Saitoshi picked the parameters for BTC, were they optimal or picked out of thin air? What if the BCH chain had won instead? We are at the mercy of the ideological goals of a handful of engineers. I'd much rather be at the mercy of the political goals of people I democratically elect.