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Because why? It's obvious that the money streams are under control of the state. Your sentiment indicate that Bitcoin should be okay because why exactly? The

Because why? It's obvious that the money streams are under control of the state. Your sentiment indicate that Bitcoin should be okay because why exactly? The country doesn't want crypto that was and is clear since ever And I also brought this point up for the last 5 years.crypto is solving a problem people like you think they wanna solve without understanding that it's on purpose how it is. It's nothing to be fixed.

bluescrn 4y ago
> "The country doesn't want crypto" Crypto may be wasteful nonsense and no real solution to anything. But that no reason to ban it, when we accept that capitalism allows vast amounts of wasteful behaviour in many ways, so long as people are prepared to pay the market rate for their wastefulness. If a government is elected with an explicit policy of a hard crackdown on wasteful energy use, it would surely have to extend way beyond crypto, and certainly affect those cooling mega-mansions and heating private swimming pools - but potentially even limit the power/performance of gaming hardware, domestic appliances, and power tools, amongst other things. But that's not what's happening here. IMHO, the post-Covid world needs to somehow look past its tribalism and rediscover the importance of freedom in it's many forms, and also look back more critically at the Covid response and related events around the globe. Covid has shown that there's a very high demand from an easily-terrified populace for centralised authoritarian power during a crisis. It has also shown that when that power is exercised, the resistance is likely to be minimal, and crushing that resistance causes little backlash beyond small outbursts of online anger. We now face a perpetual crisis - the 'climate emergency'. And we should all be concerned about attempted solutions imposed by such centralised authoritarian means, and even more concerned about things done claiming to be about the climate, but actually being ideological in nature.
- MeltingAaah 4y ago
  I don't think that was the issue. I think education was. It's hard to discuss 'freedom' when people prefer the opinion of anyone besides experts. I never ever saw meaningful discussions on covid were people were arguing certain papers and statistics. So the state actually did what it should do: protect their people. Yes we do need to discuss ALSO further Energie eaters. The point here is that Bitcoin is new, doesn't add any value but in contrary is circumventing the existing and on purpose installed finance system. Blocking Bitcoin now doesn't hurt anyone while ac etc. Might be harder to enforce.

bluescrn 4y ago

> "The country doesn't want crypto" Crypto may be wasteful nonsense and no real solution to anything. But that no reason to ban it, when we accept that capitalism allows vast amounts of wasteful behaviour in many ways, so long as people are prepared to pay the market rate for their wastefulness. If a government is elected with an explicit policy of a hard crackdown on wasteful energy use, it would surely have to extend way beyond crypto, and certainly affect those cooling mega-mansions and heating private swimming pools - but potentially even limit the power/performance of gaming hardware, domestic appliances, and power tools, amongst other things. But that's not what's happening here. IMHO, the post-Covid world needs to somehow look past its tribalism and rediscover the importance of freedom in it's many forms, and also look back more critically at the Covid response and related events around the globe. Covid has shown that there's a very high demand from an easily-terrified populace for centralised authoritarian power during a crisis. It has also shown that when that power is exercised, the resistance is likely to be minimal, and crushing that resistance causes little backlash beyond small outbursts of online anger. We now face a perpetual crisis - the 'climate emergency'. And we should all be concerned about attempted solutions imposed by such centralised authoritarian means, and even more concerned about things done claiming to be about the climate, but actually being ideological in nature.

MeltingAaah 4y ago
I don't think that was the issue. I think education was. It's hard to discuss 'freedom' when people prefer the opinion of anyone besides experts. I never ever saw meaningful discussions on covid were people were arguing certain papers and statistics. So the state actually did what it should do: protect their people. Yes we do need to discuss ALSO further Energie eaters. The point here is that Bitcoin is new, doesn't add any value but in contrary is circumventing the existing and on purpose installed finance system. Blocking Bitcoin now doesn't hurt anyone while ac etc. Might be harder to enforce.