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> In a few years Bitcoin mining will kill way more people than the number of political dissidents How are you counting the number of political dissidents saved

• arcticbull 5y ago
  I was just being glib - but in an ideal world that number should be 0. Any political dissidents that are willing to write their entire transaction history in plaintext on a slow, small public ledger are going to end up in political prison in a hot minute. They're just waiting for automated tooling to file a report with the secret police. Bitcoin is not the tool you should be using for that. It's just poor opsec.
• not2b 5y ago
  Do you have any evidence that this number is nonzero?
  • johndevor 5y ago
    Edit: I don't have direct evidence of saving lives (e.g. somebody bribed a guard with bitcoin in order to escape execution), but it's not hard to argue that these resistance organizations do save lives. * https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/09/09/belarus-nonprofit-helps-protestors-with-bitcoin-grants/ https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/09/09/belarus-nonprofit... * https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/10/16/nigerian-banks-shut-them-out-so-these-activists-are-using-bitcoin-to-battle-police-brutality/ https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/10/16/nigerian-banks-shut... * https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/07/15/russian-activists-use-bitcoin-and-the-kremlin-doesnt-like-it/ https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/07/15/russian-activists... * https://wikileaks.org/ https://wikileaks.org/
    • arcticbull 5y ago
      It has niche uses, but so would any other non-PoW crypto or a CBDC.