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"Hello, Dear Sir! I am most foreign of foreigners, wishing to buy your Bitcoin Printing Mint Equipment, paid in your local currency, for export out of your fin

by Syonyk 5y ago

"Hello, Dear Sir! I am most foreign of foreigners, wishing to buy your Bitcoin Printing Mint Equipment, paid in your local currency, for export out of your fine country." "... really? You're the guy we seized these from, holding your finger under your nose like a mustache. To cover your mustache." If you object to the entire principle (or, at least, need to be seen objecting to the entire principle), destroying the assets in a visible public spectacle is the way to go. California had at least some high profile "street racer" destruction back in the day, and I don't believe any western government, upon seizing a big load of cocaine, goes about trying to figure out how they can unload it to someone else. At least, in easily tracked ways...

michaelmrose 5y ago
Cocaine does have SOME medicinal use but corruption of the product by being mixed destroys any possibility of legit use. This isn't true of computers.
qwerty456127 5y ago
> really? You're the guy we seized these from Ok, let them buy it again and seize it from them again if they use it unlawfully. Double profit. > seizing a big load of cocaine, goes about trying to figure out how they can unload it to someone else Because there is an internationally agreed war on drugs. Cocaine (unlike meth which can be officially prescribed as Desoxyn in the US and heroine which also is used medically in some cases e.g. in the UK) is officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use (it can be used for good but in practice 99.9% of its use is abuse and even the 0.1% who use it for good also do that illegally). AFAIK there is no international agreement on fighting cryptocurrencies mining so far, the mining equipment (let alone the power supply units) are perfectly legal to manufacture, sell, buy, own and use (unless you actually steal electricity to power them) in many countries. Even such a totalitarian and unreasonably conservative country as Iran officially allowed (and taxed) mining until they found out they are running low on electricity.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago
  > Cocaine (unlike meth which can be officially prescribed as Desoxyn in the US and heroin which also is used medically in some cases e.g. in the UK) is officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use This isn't true at all; cocaine is a Schedule II drug, not a Schedule I like marijuana. It has historically had plenty of medical use.
  - qwerty456127 5y ago
    I know it had medical use historically but had no idea it still has today.
    - thaumasiotes 5y ago
      Did I say it does? It might. But what you said was that it is "officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use". There is an official schedule of drugs organized by how evil they are and whether they have a medical use. Cocaine is listed as having medical use. This is, to the maximum possible extent, the official opinion of the United States. Where are you getting your official statements from?

by Syonyk 5y ago

michaelmrose 5y ago

Cocaine does have SOME medicinal use but corruption of the product by being mixed destroys any possibility of legit use. This isn't true of computers.

qwerty456127 5y ago

> really? You're the guy we seized these from Ok, let them buy it again and seize it from them again if they use it unlawfully. Double profit. > seizing a big load of cocaine, goes about trying to figure out how they can unload it to someone else Because there is an internationally agreed war on drugs. Cocaine (unlike meth which can be officially prescribed as Desoxyn in the US and heroine which also is used medically in some cases e.g. in the UK) is officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use (it can be used for good but in practice 99.9% of its use is abuse and even the 0.1% who use it for good also do that illegally). AFAIK there is no international agreement on fighting cryptocurrencies mining so far, the mining equipment (let alone the power supply units) are perfectly legal to manufacture, sell, buy, own and use (unless you actually steal electricity to power them) in many countries. Even such a totalitarian and unreasonably conservative country as Iran officially allowed (and taxed) mining until they found out they are running low on electricity.

thaumasiotes 5y ago
> Cocaine (unlike meth which can be officially prescribed as Desoxyn in the US and heroin which also is used medically in some cases e.g. in the UK) is officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use This isn't true at all; cocaine is a Schedule II drug, not a Schedule I like marijuana. It has historically had plenty of medical use.
- qwerty456127 5y ago
  I know it had medical use historically but had no idea it still has today.
  - thaumasiotes 5y ago
    Did I say it does? It might. But what you said was that it is "officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use". There is an official schedule of drugs organized by how evil they are and whether they have a medical use. Cocaine is listed as having medical use. This is, to the maximum possible extent, the official opinion of the United States. Where are you getting your official statements from?