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This is by far the dumbest ever HN post that has made it to #1. Too many fallacies to bother taking apart but the worst one must be "banks are free that means t
by hd4 5y ago
This is by far the dumbest ever HN post that has made it to #1. Too many fallacies to bother taking apart but the worst one must be "banks are free that means they're preferable".
- rvz 5y agoWhen the author's PayPal, Square Cash, Amazon Smile, Ko-Fi and Flattr accounts all get shutdown, for no reason whatsoever, they will crawl back to using cryptocurrencies and stablecoins for donations.
- oblio 5y agoThis obviously sucks, but how common is that? 0.0001% of cases? Have there even been moderate - not even large - scale protests against banks freezing accounts? Regular banking is slow and cumbersome, but it does work for most people.
- rvz 5y agoThere was just this [0] right here, which is directly related to [1]. Regular banking is useless for both of these users. Maybe they and the problem don't matter since they are 0.0001% of cases, even when the banks have the ability to do that. Platform-wise, I won't be surprised if they do same thing as GoFundMe [2]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213365 [1] https://theintercept.com/2022/01/19/crypto-afghanistan-sanctions-taliban https://theintercept.com/2022/01/19/crypto-afghanistan-sanct... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30187172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30187172