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Cryptocurrency is just a technology to give people the means to generate assets, and transfer them, themselves. Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence
by ETH_start 1y ago
Cryptocurrency is just a technology to give people the means to generate assets, and transfer them, themselves. Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence be employed to prohibit people from using this technology is incredibly illiberal.
Regulation is just repression, rebranded.
- kelseyfrog 1y ago> Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence be employed to prohibit people from using this technology is incredibly illiberal. I simply don't care anymore. Cryptocurrency's value is as a cultural shibboleth to identify individuals who deserve social interaction.
- ETH_start 1y agoThis is really not a constructive comment to make. This is going to ignite a flame war.
- kelseyfrog 1y agoThey're in control and responsible for their responses. Blaming someone else for one's anger or overreaction is indicative of abuse. "You made me lash out," is simply not a mature way to live one's life.
- ETH_start 1y agoThe moderators of hacker news expressly ask that people don't post like you just did.
- fc417fc802 1y agoI was with you until that final sentence. Regulation can be used for repression but it's also an essential part of any large scale real world system.
- ETH_start 1y agoWhy?