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Let's say "the state" saw promise in crypto and therefore threat to its monopoly power over money. How best to counter the threat? Forbidding things makes them
by h2odragon 4y ago
Let's say "the state" saw promise in crypto and therefore threat to its monopoly power over money. How best to counter the threat? Forbidding things makes them sexy...
How about let's foster an ecosystem of horribly transparent scams and predatory behavior on top of it? If we can spread enough shit over it, no one will want to use it, and the potential will be safely buried.
See also 4chan.
- mikestew 4y agoAm I reading you correctly in that you propose that the scams, et. al., are a conspiracy of The Man to tarnish the good name of cryptocurrencies? Seems the more simple explanation is that if there's money involved, the scammers will come a'knockin'.
- zardo 4y agoThe state choose not to keep a clean well regulated market. But then keeping out regulation is exactly what the cryptopromoters and scammers wanted.
- secretsatan 4y agoCoz, like, the world is full of good intentioned people, but there are some evil ones, but it’s ok, they def only work for the state?